I woke up the other morning at my usual time for a weekday, sometime around 5:30. I don’t like that I have to get up that early, but my body has adjusted, and I don’t even need an alarm clock anymore. Like I usually do, I headed right for the computer. I don’t even try […]
After reading three of Jonathan Tropper‘s books, I could not wait to find the fight scene in “Everything Changes,” his 2005 release. After all, a brawl came up somewhere in each of the other books. I knew this one had to have one of those epic scenes that made the main character take a different […]
A few months ago, I expressed disappointment with R.E.M.’s release plans for this year. I thought the live disc with the Reckoning re-release would be from the 2007 Dublin working rehearsals. I have since figured out that I was an idiot in assuming that. I haven’t yet bought the new Reckoning, mainly out of laziness […]
Like most of my friends growing up, I went to private school all the way through high school. I never got to appreciate the concept of wearing comfortable clothes to class until I got to college. I thankfully had a very important window into life at public schools, however. For better or for worse, everything […]
I have not seen the movie “I Love You, Beth Cooper.” I don’t really plan on it and not just because of the bad reviews the film has received. Reading the book pretty much gave me the same experience. That’s not to say the book deserves criticism like the film. It’s just that author Larry […]
A fellow PR guy in Baltimore has started a web site called Weekly Writing Assignment. The premise is simple – he puts out a writing contest every week and shares five finalists before picking a winner. Piece of cake. No prizes, just an exercise for the writing muscles. I did not get a chance to […]
Bill Simmons gets the credit for this one. I had heard Chuck Klosterman‘s name before, but really didn’t know much about him. Then I heard Simmons, aka The Sports Guy (I’m linking to his own site, not the ESPN one), chat with Klosterman for about 90 minutes in a two-part podcast late last month. Since […]
I don’t know why I hadn’t gotten around to reading “Election” by Tom Perrotta until recently. I had read “The Wishbones” and “Joe College,” his two funny books which bookended the novel ultimately made into a film starring Matthew Broderick and Reese WItherspoon. After reading the 1998 novel at the beach recently, I’m glad I […]
Once again, I have stumbled up on a tremendous skill I possess with little chance to actually support my family pursuing it as a career. We recently completed my family’s annual beach vacation. For the first time in a long while, we rented a beach house just for the three of us. In past years, […]