I enjoy a life of high and low culture, don't you? Often I find a way to mix the two: Artwork in the apartment features both Dali and a portrait of Conan O'Brien. And in our post-post-post-postmodern world, you can't escape the mixture ( Read more... )

Mom turned 60 a couple of weeks ago. So I took off a few days to spend some time with her in Philly. It was a good trip, just lots of hanging out. We arrived on April 28, her actual birthday. Dad took us out to LongHorn Steakhouse -- my parents' favorite place -- with Rosemary, my brother Mike and his new girlfriend ( Read more... )

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Hello, world. I'm 30 now.

Not too exciting, yet.

I spent most of the past two days just sleeping and not doing much. After a bunch of long workdays, that was much needed. Tuesday I did some birthday shopping, picking up Cee Lo Green's "The Lady Killer," John Legend and The Roots' "Wake Up" and "Batman Returns" on Blu-ray.

Wednesday had a little more ( Read more... )

Not too much has been going on as of late, but there has been some fun. My off days have been out of whack because i am taking four days off for Rosemary's birthday this weekend. But I ended up being off last Friday after I pointed out to my boss that I was working nine days in a row, which shouldn't happen.

That night, Rosemary and I ventured out ( Read more... )

It's been another parade of friends. Believe it or not, these days Rosemary and I are going out about as much as we did in Philadelphia ( Read more... )

The weekend before last, I took Rosemary with me to Harvard to see the Kuumba Singers, a choir dedicated to African-American music and spirituality, for their spring concert as part of the group's 40th anniversary weekend. I used to sing in Kuumba when I was in college, and I was last in town to see them at the 35th anniversary weekend. Didn't mean ( Read more... )

I'm not the biggest fan of hip-hop parodies, mostly because they're too geeky. And this sis even though rap has nerds in it - Kanye West, Mos Def, Biz Markie, ?uestlove, RZA ( Read more... )

What do you all think of the numbered posts? Let me know. If you like it, great. If you don't, then suck it, because here are some more numbers!

1. Days off are fun. Mine, though, are in the middle of the week, but still fun. I spent my days off the past two weeks in Torrington for some Brazen Betties action. I bought Rosemary an awesome purse - ( Read more... )