Fatherhood Sneaks Up On You
As I drove around the other day. I had trouble finding a song I wanted to listen to on the radio. Given that I have satellite radio, that really bothered me. I should always find something I like on there. […]
ITEOTWAWKI: Roots
R.E.M. didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. The four members of the band owe much of their inspiration to the thriving music scene in Athens, Ga., where they all lived in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The quartet […]
I Miss Kid Nation
“Kid Nation” only ended 15 hours ago, and I am already depressed. The final episode should have been expanded. I wanted to see some of the kids now taking about the experience. I wanted to know if Greg and Blaine […]
Writing for Pizza
Prolific writers always impress me, even if I don’t read much of their work. I found it hard enough to even write one (unpublished) novel, much less many manuscripts. Then there’s the whole thing about getting an agent and all […]
Enchanted by Enchanted
If I wanted to write a snarky review of Enchanted, I could say that I liked it better the first time when they called it Splash and included John Candy quoting Swedish porn (check the 8:30 mark of this clip) […]
Are We There Yet?
With the holiday approaching, I know we will spend a lot of time together in the car. I start to have flashbacks when that happens. As a kid, we did a ton of traveling. We drove pretty much all up […]
ITEOTWAWKI: Happy Birthday, Pete
I read the “Today in History” column in my local paper pretty much every day. My favorite part are the celebrity birthdays. I always had a rule that once a musician turned 50, the could not be listed as a […]
Katherine Heigl Needs to Get Over Herself
A couple of years ago, no one knew Katherine Heigl. If you look at her IMDB profile, you might not realize she had such a good career before “Grey’s Anatomy” (I had totally forgotten she was part of the torture […]
An Efficient Day
I stopped by to see Maria at work last weekend. She just started working at a shop called Treasures downtown. I had nothing better to do since it was near the end of the Thanksgiving holiday. With several days off, […]
ITEOTWAWKI: Tour News
I can officially get excited. R.E.M. has announced its first concert for 2008. We don’t know when they will release their next album. We don’t even know what it might be called. But we know they will play in Florida […]