Diamonds in the Sky

  • January 23, 2011 9:28 am

I do this thing with songs in which I become obsessed with them. I discover one tune and then I listen to it over and over and over and… My best friend hates this attribute of mine. One time I made her play Norah Jones’ “Sunrise” twenty three and a half times on a road…

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This is What January is Good For

  • January 20, 2011 9:28 pm

The key to good writing is either wine or chocolate. Or maybe both. The key to mediocre writing is pressure. Not much ever happens in January anyways, right? I mean, after the holidays, we almost want things to be normal and humdrum again. No more relatives ringing the doorbell. No more luscious parties with way…

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West Coasters Will Find this Boring…All Others Will Find It at Least a Little Less So.

  • January 3, 2011 8:24 pm

Today, I was about 50 feet from my house when I realized that I couldn’t actually remember turning on to my street. For all I know, I could have been abducted by aliens, had my memory erased and been dropped off a few blocks down. For all I know. More likely (just a bit), my…

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Branding…It’s Not Just for Cows Anymore…

  • January 2, 2011 9:35 pm

There have been about four or five or eight instances within the past couple of weeks when I have been asked, either directly or indirectly, why I don’t work more to develop my own ‘brand.’ Yes, my brand – she is tall with curly brown hair and she will say weird things if provoked. In…

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