April 2013
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To the young parents (and my fellow dorks)
When I was a kid, my father had a subscription to OMNI Magazine as well as a subscription to Car & Driver; the latter of which made me fall in love with horsepower and PJ O’Rourke’s writing style because I was - apparently - “too young” to read the work of Hunter S. Thompson. After all, it’s far better to have your kid reading about illicit street racing (and...
March 2013
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February 2013
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Your Storm is Worse Than My Storm.
Yeah, I get it… You live in Rochester or Ithaca or any town in Vermont.
If you live in any of these places, odds are you own a four-wheel-drive vehicle. You also have a “big-box” store nearby where you can buy 16 chicken pot pies, an HDTV, a PlayStation, a keg of Sierra Nevada, 100 gallons of bottled water, and a month’s worth of DVDs for well below retail value. All that...
"Dr. Grosz" (Brian, revised) oil on canvas, 30 x...
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hey… that’s me!
January 2013
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My Letter to the Boy Scouts of America
To Whom it May Concern at the Boy Scouts of America:
About 17 years ago, I achieved the rank of Eagle Scout through Troop 3 in Old Greenwich, CT. My personal experience with scouting taught me thousands of life-lessons and opened more than a few doors in my professional life.
Admittedly, I was embarrassed in my early 20s to be an Eagle; as a musician in a rock and roll band, it simply...
“The Iron never lies to you.”
– My 2012 didn’t begin badly, but it didn’t begin well. Most of the people I knew were still alive, my loving girlfriend was still putting up with my OCD behavior, and I had managed to squeeze in a series of appointments for the backpiece tattoo that I had been mulling over for a few...
December 2012
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Texting with Dad about Brubeck
Me: Dave Brubeck - dead at 91.
Dad: Woulda been 92 tomorrow. RIP. Apparently he was on his way to his cardiologist.
Me: 91 ain't a bad run.
Dad: Not unless it's your time that's up. At 91, I might be kicking, crying and screaming "NO" all the way out.
Me: You'll have to reason with the rest of us to let you live that long first.
November 2012
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“In this ultra-connected life we lead, most of us are little more than our...”
– My piece for the Daily Dot “You Can’t Pack The Internet” just went live. Click here to read it in full.
October 2012
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NYC Go-Bag/Bug-Out-Bag
My GB/BOB is a little extensive and, if I do have to evacuate, the authorities are probably going to have problems with a few contents of my bag. But, I’ve had enough people ask me about what to pack, so I wanted to make this list for my friends. Let’s start with the most basic of go-bags…
THE BASIC BAG:
In a ziploc bag, place the following:
- passport
- copies of your...
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September 2012
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ever think you’d hear me say “please...
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Black Wall Studio 9/16/2012
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“Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.”
- Edgar Degas
My buddy Matty is one bad-ass painter. Psyched that he’ll be visiting from L.A. this week (don’t know if my liver and checking account can handle it, though…)
August 2012
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“Obama has been a disappointment to me. But even if hammered by our do-nothing,...”
– My grandpa rocks when he bitches out my dad’s (reactionary/Fox-informed) political beliefs via email.
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July 2012
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June 2012
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When I've had too much to drink and someone offers...
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