Last night as the clock raced toward one a.m. I wanted to pull a Fred Flintstone, propping up my heavy eyelids with a couple of toothpicks. I was so close. A mere forty-thirty-twenty pages from…
Date Archives 2013
The Saddest Issue of Tiger Beat
If Rob Lowe’s memoir is the biggest, best issue of Tiger Beat ever, then Gavin Edward’s Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind is the saddest. River Phoenix…
These are Things That are Making Me Happy Today: Not a B.S. Gratitude List (I Promise)
The sun is shining. Even when it’s cold as fuck out, I need the sun. My internal clock is set to the light and when it’s grey all day long I can’t ever tell what…
It’s Sunday & I’m Boring: Packed with More Boring than Ever Before
Remember how I used to chronicle my super-mundane Sundays? Well fear not, lovers of the humdrum, It’s Sunday & I’m Boring is back, packed with more boring than ever before! Today started early, 8 a.m.,…
Otters & Robots & Losing Sleep
The thing I love about reading books by Kurtis Scaletta (who you should know is a friend of mine), is that they zap me back in time to when it seemed my only responsibility and…
Emails From People Who Think I am Paul Westerberg: The Greatest Hits
In honor of the release of Rockin’ Here Tonight, a 2-CD benefit compilation for Slim Dunlap (he replaced Bob Stinson in The Replacements, in case you are new here), I decided to do a little…
Questions Raised By ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’
Who does the Devil answer to? So the Devil goes down to Georgia because he was in a bind, and way behind. My assumption is that the Devil most have some sort of soul-stealing quota….
Except for Kurt Cobain Who Sprung Fully-Formed from the Space Needle
We were at Grumpy’s, because of course we were. All my stories that don’t start with “I woke up from a nap” start with “We were at Grumpy’s.” It was fitting because I was grumpy…
The Ocean at the End of the ZZZzzz
Warning: I’m going to state a personal preference in a minute. Please try not to bunch yer undies. I know we live in a time where having a personal preference has morphed into some sort…
Observations on Re-watching the First Season of ‘Family Ties’
A few weeks ago at a gathering of the Black Sheep, Steve told us about how when he and his wife lived in Brooklyn they went on a “Family Ties” bender. They were so obsessed,…