With a hat tip to Jason, here is a list of the cities I visited in 2009: New York City, NY (Jan 30 – Feb 2) Old Greenwich, CT (Feb 2 – Feb 4) Reno, NV (Feb 20 – Feb 22) Palm Springs, CA (Feb 27 – Mar 1) Santa Catalina, CA (Apr 18, 19)… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: December 2009
One Awesome Year
When I was a kid I thought that no year would ever be able to beat 1983 for movies. In addition to Return of the Jedi, Vacation, and WarGames — three of my all-time favorites — that year also saw the release of Scarface, The Right Stuff, Risky Business, Octopussy, Monty Python’s The Meaning of… Read more »
Friday Five: Favorite Christmas Songs
Linus and Lucy – Vince Guaraldi Trio It Happened in Sun Valley – Glenn Miller Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Petula Clark Happy X-mas (War Is Over) – John Lennon Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley
Daily David
You’ve got just about a week to enter The 2010 Lee Atwater Invitational Celebrity Dead Pool! Until recently I’d never heard of — or even imagined the possibility of — Sweden’s bizarre tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve. “RENT is so awful that you want to punch every single person that was… Read more »
The 2009 Movie List
I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. Let me make it absolutely clear that I do not have obsessive compulsive disorder. But … I will admit that I am fanatical about some things. Since I was a sophomore in high school — a mind-bogglingly shocking twenty-something years ago… Read more »
My Dad’s Personal Blizzard
My dad’s birthday is December 20th. This year Mother Nature’s gift to him was a tremendous snowstorm that blanketed much of the East coast. He took some terrific photographs of the area around his home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Here’s a sample:
Friday Five: Time-Wasters at Work
reading RSS feeds checking my email Twitter instant messaging Metafilter
Fixing Radio Advertising
With the exception of NPR, I no longer listen to the radio. It might be more accurate to say that there simply is no more FM radio, because here in Los Angeles — where it seems every station claims to have 20, 30, 40, or 50-minute “rock blocks” — I invariably hear nothing but 8,… Read more »
Google Hates Me
For some mysterious reason the Google PageRank™ of this website dropped to zero about a year and a half ago. I really have no idea why. It didn’t coincide with any major design changes and I didn’t do anything black hat here (or even white hat) that would have caused that. Every few months I… Read more »
Friday Five: Favorite Months
June December February September October
The Five Worst Losses in Gator Football History
Losing sucks. I was raised to worship the Red Sox and the Patriots and, although this century has been damn good to both of them, losing was my way of life until I got to college. The Red Sox — a lot of kids today might not realize — were the team that was always… Read more »
Friday Five: Favorite Bond Movies
Live and Let Die Casino Royale The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker Octopussy