Birdie attended her very first birthday party today. The party in question was for the fourth birthday of N, one of Birdie's classmates from the Torah Tots program at the synagogue. As an extra bonus coincidence, N's mother used to work with M at M's last job ( Read more... )

Football is not usually the main focus of the fraternity Super Bowl party that I try to attend in Philadelphia every year. While we always do watch the big game, the more so this year with the Eagles playing in it, what usually happens is something like this ( Read more... )

I was one of eight brothers to graduate at the end of the Spring 2001 semester. This was the largest single graduating class we had while I was an active, which means it was clearly a good excuse for a party. This wasn't a public party a la Blackout, nor was it a dry party like the Detour party that kicked off this entire story. This was a private ( Read more... )

The scheduled pledge party was executed pretty much exactly like any of the other official parties we had at the fraternity. The only difference was that the pledges would be heavily involved in running the party in question ( Read more... )

Twenty-five years ago on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, 1996, I went to a party. That party dramatically changed the course of my life. Without it, I doubt I would have gotten into radio, ultimate or my current employer of 19+ years. There's a pretty substantial chance that I wouldn't have graduated from Case at all ( Read more... )

Today is my birthday. When I was growing up birthdays were by far my favorite holiday. Today's list is assorted birthday hijinks ( Read more... )

On Friday night after we had dinner M and I had a serious discussion about whether we should see Solo or whether we should watch Game 4 of the NBA Finals. With the Cavs facing elimination and LeBron's last guaranteed game in their uniform, we opted for basketball, so off we went to Deagan's and watched a brutal beatdown. In retrospect, we should ( Read more... )

So I was going to write up a nice summary of my Black Friday party so I could remember any lessons for next year, and then I realized I did that last year and totally failed to look at it while planning this party. So that's awkward. Here are a few short notes though that I may be able to remember ( Read more... )

One odd thing about all those dates I referenced earlier is that I don't really have any stories worth telling from them, either horrible or funny. Now I have a funny story from a girl who I didn't even go out on a date with ( Read more... )

It's Groundhog Day, and like deja vu I once again find myself at my friend Joe's house for the Super Bowl. Assuming that nothing horrible has happened since I wrote this up, this is the third year in a row that I've attended his Super Bowl festivities in the Philadelphia suburbs ( Read more... )