My friend Martin has been forwarding me articles about Democratic strategizing and various responses to -- I guess -- Bush's inauguration this week. He's written me extensively on his views of how a moral, religious agenda fits/doesn't fit with the Democratic one....
I had called the Elbo Room to see what time I should be there. The guy I spoke to said to be there before 9:00 pm. I got there at 8:35, but the signup sheet was full. I was very annoyed, but took off for another open mic at Subterranean. I arrived there in plenty of...
Okay, enough about "God." Back to me now... This is it: the big promotional push until Wednesday, February 16th at 10:00 p.m, which is my next big gig. I promised them I'd fill the bar, so help me out (details on the right of this page). As part of my personal...
Now that we've got this roiling discussion about god going, I'll lob the next ball over the net. Actually it comes from Lawrence of A Better Nation who sent me this link to a New York times article for which fourteen scientists were asked, "What do you believe is true...
I appreciate Jackie's post on this same subject of the religious response to the incredible horror and destruction of the Dec. 26th tsunami. Jackie writes her response to the Newsweek article Countless Souls Cry Out to God and my post of last Friday. If I'm reading...
Here's a NY Times article on the blogger's dream come true: being contacted by a publisher who's so impressed with your website they offer you a book deal. *Sigh*
I said, "I'm thirty-eight and I've never been married! What does that tell you?" He said, "It doesn't tell me anything." I can't comprehend his answer, but I sense that if I could it might change my life.
On the first Monday of 2004, last January, I remember sitting at my corporate desk job at 8:15 a.m. I had just had many wonderful days off for the holidays and was now going through the "withdrawal" feeling of getting up early again and having to be at my job which I...
Why my new restaurant job is good for me: 1. Constant interaction with others leaves little time for sitting and crying. 2. Teamwork feeds my need for community. 3. My co-workers are fun people who make me laugh and help me keep perspective on my life. 4. The...
I am the most beautiful, amazing sweater you ever saw and it's the only one left and it's perfect for you and it's in your size and it's on sale. You feel so lucky; it seems too good to be true. How is it possible that this beautiful sweater was overlooked by everyone...
The last time I let myself flutter: pregnant hope billowed out big as a sail, rocked playfully on the waves of possibility and flirting, swoopingly, swoopingly. But it ended with a SPLAT: glistening raw redness of a watermelon cruelly lurched from the back of a truck....
At my new restaurant job, I've been hampered by my lack of confidence as a server and my lack of experience. I'm hoping that as I get better at it, the money will flow, but for now I get lots and lots of two-person tables. The experienced people get the big parties,...
I apologize in advance if this post is disjointed and confusing. It's time for my annual Christmas free association. Merry Christmas, 2004. My favorite Christmas movie is Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton. It was in the theaters last year at this time and it's great....
Have you ever heard of what happened on the front of World War I on Christmas Day 1914? The Americans and Germans stopped killing each other just long enough to spontaneously celebrate Christmas together, right on the battlefield between their trenches. I’d never...
Click here to go to my music website, and then click on the icon of a Christmas gift for my version of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." It's for all of us who are single for the holidays, don't have children and might not even have family in the area. Here's...