Category: Everyday
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Umbrella Jackass
Me, Diane, and a few friends went down to the Prospect Park band shell to see Stephen Malkmus rock out in the Celebrate Brooklyn series and all was fine and dandy until he was about to take the stage. We suffered through Shannon McNally a bizarre musician from Long Island with an identity crisis. Yes…
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Laces
It’s like an old western shootout. I face her, she faces me, tumbleweed blows between us… “can I help you sir?” She asks eagerly fingering the switch on her walkie-talkie. “Yes I’m interested in the brown/light brown combo over here in a size 10.” She, without missing a beat barks UPC codes to a henchman…
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Pitiful Bastard
I know it’s not particularly good taste to write about blogging. Apparently people find it distasteful, much like trimming your toenails at the dinner table, but I have been in a slump lately and you guys are my friends… right? It comes down to to thinking about what terrific things I can jot down, thinking…
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What You Asked For
You have to be careful. Your parents always told it to you when you had, in a moment of anger, wished them death. It was in those unfortunate years, when your emotions ran hot, your hair was big, and your music tastes were less than _unfortunate._ You learned that “Be careful what you wish for,…