When I was in my 20s, a typical day in my life looked like this: Open eyes, reach for the Marlboros, have the first of the day’s 20-ish cigarettes, get up, […]
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A Simple Song
It’s time….drumroll please….to release another new song to the millions of people reading this blog. Okay, maybe not millions. Maybe just one lonely guy in New Jersey who really has […]
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The Bucket List
We humans start planning our future from the time we first learn to speak in complete sentences. “Someday I’m going to go to Mars!” or “I’m going to remove my […]
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She’s Nearly a Saint
It’s time to let a new recording of an old original song out into the world… When my dad passed away a few years ago, he left some money to […]
Read More!Beautiful, Glorious Hockey
My son Luke’s hockey team — eleven and twelve year-old kids — had their final game of the season last night. They had played the same team, from Durango, earlier […]
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A Newly Minted Flogging Molly Fan
Just as I was getting ready to graduate high school way back in 1983, also known as the Pleistocene Age, the Violent Femmes self-titled debut album was hitting the shelves […]
Read More!Science, Bitch
At the end of The Lost Boys, a most excellent teen vampire flick from 1987, the character of Grandpa (played by Barnard Hughes) says: One thing about living in Santa […]
Read More!Cranky About the Olympics
I grew up in a neighborhood with a ton of kids. There were four Morrison children, four Murphys, two O’Connors, four (or five?) Finnerans, at least five and maybe seven […]
Read More!Is It Bad this Feels Like a Vacation?
I’m twelve days into my new life as a full-time writer, and here’s what I’ve accomplished so far: Played ice hockey, on three separate occasions, in the middle of the […]
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