Well, The Dalliance will have an album out sometime soon, and I can't push that enough.  This is a project by the band occasionally also known as The Brady Bastards.

I'd push Casey Stratton's work as well, although I'm an album or two behind on what's available through his website.  He is definitely, out of the musicians I am friends/acquaintances ( Read more... )

My driveway, so their son can learn to skateboard down it.

Well, I've only actually had one set of out-of-town (not from northwestern NJ) visitors so far.  That's you, Cornues!

Other than my driveway?

Hot Dog Johnny's on Rt 46 in Buttzville is a must.  Frosty glass mug root beer, great hot dogs, and very "roadside attraction" vibe.

And any portion of ( Read more... )

Tough one, but I'm too intrigued not to answer.

Answering honestly -- Jamie Gangel from Jonathan Harvey's play "Beautiful Thing," played in the film version by Glen Berry.  Although I did not grow up in London with a single mom who manages a pub, Jamie has most of the personality traits I had as a closeted gay teenager with a crush on the boy next ( Read more... )

I'm answering this mainly because I can't answer it.  I honestly cannot remember the last time I cooked a meal for myself at home that was not something microwavable, something you can cook just by adding hot water (ramen noodles) or something reheated from leftovers from a local restaurant.

Not that I haven't been eating healthy -- I've been ( Read more... )

It doesn't really qualify as a wardrobe malfunction, but the famous "leaving the wireless microphone on while at the urinal" event from two years ago has to be the most embarrassing clothing-related incident in my long and stories history of embarrassing moments.  Especially since I had, the day before, told the class the story about the owner of ( Read more... )

Have I really been maintaining this journal since 2004?  Wow.

Did I really call Ben Gluckstern "Captain Tightpants" in 2004, years before I'd ever heard the nickname applied to Nathan Fillion?  Bigger wow.

My first entry in November of 2004 read:

Well, This thing is up and running. I'm not sure how often I'll make an entry, or how meaningful any of ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure I've ever just randomly approached a stranger to talk about my personal problems.  The closest I come is this blog, but after a while even those new readers I somehow garner are no longer "strangers" in the traditional sense.  I may not have had the pleasure of actually meeting them in person, yet, but the give and take on each ( Read more... )

You would think this would be reasonably easy for me ... but I had to think hard.  One wants a nice mix of genres and styles, doesn't one?

1. To Be Or Not To Be, the version with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.  No, it's not perhaps the most well-known or widely-loved of Brooks' films ... it's not even the best of Brooks' films ( we can debate whether ( Read more... )

I have always enjoyed the word "rutabaga."  For some reason, it just rolls off the tongue and sounds humorous to me.  I often work it into the classes I teach, just to see if people will notice I said it.

This is one of those "I'm not sure if I really remember it, or if I heard the story told so many times I only think I remember it" types of things.  I do know that when I was in first grade, I hated school.  Okay, I hated school pretty much all the way up to 8th grade if not later but that's  story for another time.  In first grade, I was still ( Read more... )