It’s Friday (am I the only one who thinks that this week just flew by?), which means its time to share the first songs that my iPod spits, in order, no additions or subtractions. So here we go…
1. Did Galileo Pray?, Ellis Paul (Live)
2. Blood From a Stone, Jonatha Brooke (10 Cent Wings)
3. Chokin’ [...]
Lately I’ve been inspired to stick my toe back into the world of internet dating. As with many of my generation, I am not a novice when it comes to meeting people online. I found the first guy I ever really loved via match.com, so I have a certain fondness for the medium. [...]
Tonight as I was walking home down Chestnut St., I saw two visibly intoxicated guys greet each other like long lost friends. Who knows, maybe they were. They embraced wildly and as one of them stepped back out of the hug, he tripped on the front steps of a brownstone and fell backwards.
Hard.
This [...]
Today is the 67th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night when the Nazi movement organized a national attack against the Jews, designed to look like random rioting gone out of hand. Hitler got the idea to organize this attack after a German official was killed by a Jew in Paris. Upwards of 1000 synagogues [...]
Walking into my building tonight I saw a cluster of people heatedly talking in front of the community room door. Their presence reminded me in a flash that it was election day (the retirees in my building take civic duty very seriously, voting is sacrosanct even on the off years).
Last year on election day, [...]
I walked into my building tonight just as the Monday night Bingo game was letting out of the community room. Clusters of little old ladies were scattered around the lobby, a slow drifting human obstacle course, complete with walkers and canes stuck out at odd angles, preventing me from getting to my final destination [...]
The first power tool I ever bought was a little Black and Decker cordless screwdriver. I bought it my sophomore year of college to put together my bookshelf. My primary Christmas request that year had been for a large book case that “collapsed into a pile of boards” and my dad, with the [...]
We got to Bob and Barbara’s last night during the lull between the end of happy hour and beginning of Friday night. I hadn’t been there since the night we celebrated my 26th birthday last May, as a friend had given her ex-boyfriend custody of Bob and Barbara’s (as well as Dirty Frank’s) when [...]
The City of Angels has been both very good and very bad to my sister this week. In the very good department was her show at the Clairmont Colleges. She has some friends down there, and they brought a nice sized crowd out to hear Raina. On the very bad side was [...]
Today is Friday, which means I share the first ten songs that my iPod spits out, just for kicks. The rules of this game include the instruction that you are not to skip a song, no matter how obscure, embarrassing or odd it may be. I have to confess that, today, I so [...]
