iTunes is play­ing: My Coun­try — Randy New­man — Bad Love

You know when some­one plays Waltz­ing Matilda and expects an Aussie to know every sin­gle word, and bad­gers the Aussie into respond­ing to ‘G’day mate’? The self-respecting Aussie would suf­fer the Cringe. On occa­sion, an Aussie is the source […]

iTunes is play­ing: Love Gets Strange — Don Dixon — Love Gets Strange — The Songs of John Hiatt

I agreed to din­ner with ST and her mum. I hadn’t seen her for months, and I’ve missed her ter­ri­bly, so maybe that’s why I agreed. Her mother, I think, remains con­fused at […]

iTunes is play­ing: Don’t think twice, it’s all right — Bob Dylan — The Best Of Bob Dylan

Cel­e­brat­ing a birth­day in style was the inten­tion, and me and my class­mate HL and some of our same age or older friends went and did just that.

Had a bit of help from

iTunes is play­ing: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most — Ella Fitzger­ald — Quiet Now: Ella’s Moods

Bor­rowed this photo taken by a friend who I haven’t been able to con­vince to start even a pho­to­blog. She takes great pictures.

About six years or so ago, I […]

iTunes is play­ing: Every­body Plays the Fool — Aaron Neville — Warm Your Heart

So, JH showed us last week how easy it is to pick up chicks. JH is not cocky about it or any­thing, he just likes women to a fault. The rest of the boys are just grate­ful for […]

iTunes is play­ing: Amaz­ing — Alex Lloyd — Watch­ing Angels Mend

Before I for­get, happy birth­day wishes to two snazzy women. Karen and LMD who turn twenty six and twenty nine. Many happy returns. Your blogs rawk.

And before we have delu­sions of liv­ing in an intelligent, […]

iTunes is play­ing: The Onion Song (with Tammi Ter­rell) — Mar­vin Gaye — The Very Best of Marvin Gaye

What would oth­er­wise have been an unevent­ful Sun­day was improved by a din­ner treat from my good friend Immez­zler at Sebastien’s on Green­wood Avenue. If this goes […]

iTunes is play­ing: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morn­ing — Frank Sina­tra — My Way: The Best of Frank Sina­tra [DJ Specialist]

It’s one thing to stay home on a Fri­day night prepar­ing for work on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. It’s another thing to do that and receive SMSs from friends […]

iTunes is play­ing: Big But­ter And Egg Man — Wyn­ton Marsalis — Stan­dard Time Vol. 3: The Res­o­lu­tion Of Romance [UK]

Heinz Spasgetti

I was starv­ing tonight but didn’t go out even­tu­ally because I was way­laid by IM convos.

And so, I ‘made’ sup­per. You know what Heinz Spasgetti […]

There was one thing hard to miss at the news­stand where I bought my cig­a­rettes today. It was this new mag­a­zine (which I had already bought last week), which was plas­tered all over the deck, on the awning and clipped on the strings they use to hang mag­a­zines. I’m think­ing, man, she’s a […]