Thursday, November 22, 2007

The First Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody! Stay tuned for live blogging!


UPDATE: 12:23 - we just woke up and got ready for a great day
UPDATE: 1:03 - i am taking a trip to the store to get some last minute ingredients, my sister-in-law is here and awaiting a tour of our little town, here we go!
UPDATE: 2:20 - after a successful run to Stop&Shop, we now have the rest of the foodstuffs needed for a great Thanksgiving! Our creations await us...
UPDATE: 2:47 - we are toggling between football on TV, and the movies 'Austin Powers' and 'Dances with Wolves.' The turkey is in the oven, and the cheese platter ala Steph has been made!



UPDATE: 3:00 - We are now watching our Shawshank Redemption DVD and have just toasted to our first Thanksgiving!


UPDATE: 4:08 - The Turkey is DONE!


UPDATE: 4:30 - We are now eating, and a happy Thanksgiving to you all!






Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Lots of Shinanigans



Over the weekend my friend Louis came to visit. He's a right old gent, straight off the turnip truck from Boulder to Boston, wherein he lives with his girlfriend and her roommate. Jack Tripper he is not. Anyway, we shopped around town and whatnot, then returned home to find two cops cars in our yard. Minutes later a SWAT van arrived, and you can read the rest here...
or perhaps you can watch my News12.com interview here.

And while I missed it on TV, I did see that I was rendered a Simpsons character on Sunday, to wit:

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Pharmaid



I joined a band at work for a benefit amateur concert for the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. They're the ones who operated on the Fillipino Siamese Twins with much aplomb.

Anyway, I dusted off the old guitar, offering to play rhythm, and 5 practice weeks later, we played a 10 minute set. Check it out!



It had been a LONG while since i played in front of a live audience, and it had been a long time since i've even seen live music, and i have to say that i forgot how powerful it be! I could actually feel the air move around me, pushed out like a divine wind from stacks and stacks of speakers...

Monday, November 05, 2007

I am the Best!


I played best man to my friend Mike over the weekend. I love, LOVE, getting away with the wife and attending weddings. It's even better when I participate, and being best man? Well let's just call it freaking cool. I tended to the groom with gusto and had a very fine time in Rochester. I gave a speech, toasted my friends and danced the night away in style. Mike and Lisa are off to Jamaica on holiday, and I am back at work and happy to have gone for a weekend trip and not come home to my shitty neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Mamaroneck rules!

Thursday, November 01, 2007

The Lost Boys


So last night was a giant clusterfruck, and i absolutely KNEW that netflix would screw me. all i wanted to do was sit and wait for trick-or-treaters in my new suburban enclave, watch the Lost Boys and pass out candy. i woke up Halloween morning and said to myself, 'That's all i want: to watch the Lost Boys, the Lost Boys rules...there's no way I am watching this without a fight today is there.'

and then of course i get home and the Lost Boys arrives, literally split in two. thanks netflix, but then my old friend Blockbuster came through for me and by 9pm i was in keifer Sutherland-land.

Heather was unamused at my fascination with vampires, with Keifer Sutherland at his best, and she had no recollection of 1980's phenomenon 'the Cory's'. Granted, she spent most of her childhood playing in the great outdoors, while i wasted away watching MTV and immersing myself in the pop culture of teen throbs and brat packs (she's also never seen the Breakfast Club).

ultimately, we didn't even get trick-or-treaters because our street has turned into a construction zone. they are installing sidewalks, and there is literally a moat in front of my house...i am sure kids would have fallen in and impaled themselves on rebar and tools and whatnot. damn kids.