On Saturday night, Freda and I went to the Phillies game. It was an awesome time. I've only been to Citizens Bank Park once since it opened, so this was time number two. It was a really cool and cozy night and I enjoyed it. We had a section filled with Barry Bonds haters and they went positively ape shit when he dropped the fly ball in the ( Read more... )

So the original plan for today involved going to my brother's show, which is playing at the Spaghetti Warehouse on Spring Garden Street. However, at 3PM, I heard that it was cancelled. Ugh. I felt bad. I was really looking forward to going. Maybe next time. In lieu of going to a show, Freda and I went and got dirt. On State Road, there's ( Read more... )

For the past few days, Pearl Jam’s cover of the Who’s “Reign Over Me” has been stuck in my head. It’s interesting, since I’m one of the few who think that Pearl Jam and cover songs don’t mix very well. True, they do a kick ass “Baba O’Reilly” but I’m flat-out tired of hearing them do “Rockin’ In the Free World” (well, except for the version where ( Read more... )

Loaded Easter weekend this year. It kicked off on Saturday with a 2pm show of "Spamalot" at the Academy of Music. It was the touring company production. Really, really, really awesome show. If you have the chance to see it, the show is very funny, especially if you're familiar with "Monty Python & The Holy Grail" and "Monty Python" the show ( Read more... )

I'll be the first to admit: Back when they came out, I ate up "Airplane" and the "Hot Shots" and "Naked Gun" movies like they were nothing. I loved them. And you know what? I still love them today. Why? Yes, they are parodies, but what makes them work is that they actually have stories that house the parodies, plots that move the story forward ( Read more... )

Not sure what I can really say. Yeah, it's been a while, and nothing terribly astounding's happened. February was freakin' long and cold, and when I say "cold," I'm not just talking the weather. I kicked off the shortest month of the calendar year with a pretty awful cold, made all the more awful by the fact that we were shorthanded in work and ( Read more... )

I'll set the scene: The deep, dark cold of February 2002. I'm in the throes of unemployment, savings drying up pretty quickly, going through the embarrassment of job interviews in a post 9/11 recession job market. Job searching is a 24/7 job, but you need a break from it every now and then ( Read more... )

Why not cap a fairly productive night off with some blogging action? How 'bout that, huh ( Read more... )

So Christmas was very well-spent this year. On Christmas Eve, Freda and I went to 7pm mass at St. Dom's and then off to Joe White's house and hung out with him, Jen, his mom, brother Ryan, and Ned. A good time catching up and chatting up old times. From there, we went to Freda's parents' house. My mom came over and we opened the presents our ( Read more... )

I think I might try to take a vacation from writing, at least until the holidays pass. Just too crazy. And not only that---just nothing's working ( Read more... )