Musings
Full Disclosure: I have been a vegetarian for fifteen years
Some people write letters to the editor when they read a story they don’t like. And some of those people anxiously open up the paper for days hoping to see their brilliance in newsprint. And then when they don’t, they pull up their blog and write [...]
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There’s an old Hollywood adage, famously coined by screenwriter William Goldman that when it comes to predicting which movies will succeed and which will fail, “Nobody Knows Anything.” To wit: Columbia Pictures passed on the chance to produce “Star Wars”, leaving the plucky sci-fi movie to Fox, thereby losing out on billions of dollars in [...]
As a work at home dad, the daily grind of my kid’s homework falls on me. This was a fairly easy task in kindergarten, first and even second grade. Now though, as third has kicked in, more and more I’m realizing that I can’t help.
Oh, I’ll sit and try and figure out that if Mary [...]
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A few years back, after I had found some minimal success placing wine in a few local accounts, Ryan flew down to LA to help open the market up further. This strategy had been employed in about half a dozen other cities to unqualified success. So I was excited to have some places in the [...]
I suppose after a two month absence from blogging this space probably resembles Love Canal but I’m back and mediocre as ever.
As usual, I wish I had some better reason for being away, like my wife and supermodel mistress surprised me with a trip to Italy – just the three of us - and we [...]
Summer doesn’t officially end until September 22nd, but the end of the season for me is just over the horizon as the boys start school tomorrow.
Its been a nice couple of months filled with swimming, tennis camp, a trip to NYC and various other activities reserved for out of school pleasure. This included an almost [...]
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I suppose this is a post I could write each year at this time. But upon reading today that the state of California thinks it can generate almost a billion and a half dollars a year by legalizing pot, it brings to the forefront how off kilter things are when it comes to the sale [...]
Let me state for the record that I am the most happily married man I know.
So why do I find myself cursing every time I sift through the Weddings Page in the Sunday Times? Is it because the people who choose to acknowledge their nuptials there fall into very specific catergories:
1. Ivy League Educated
2. Doctors, [...]
Many people’s favorite moment in the movie, Sideways (mine included), is the scene in which Miles gets word that his book has been rejected by the publisher he was hoping would champion it, thus relegating him to further anonymous status, something that goes along with all his other disappointments.
And while most people remember this scene [...]
One cannot turn on the news, read a paper, or tool around the internet without coming across some dire account of the country’s financial meltdown. And to be sure, whereas I’m a firm cynic when it comes to the information the media sends our way (if it bleeds, it leads), this crisis is real and [...]