Work/Life Weighed in the Balance…
A little under a year ago, when I first joined my development group at Lehman Brothers (I will shout that name from the rooftops, now that they’ve gone the way of the dodo), I hit it off with one of my...
View ArticleHow Much Are You Really Getting Paid?
Every working man (or woman) has a reason for being at his/her current gig. Some (like me) find it an interesting intellectual exercise. Some are truly passionate about what they do, especially if...
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Nick and Norah – Two Kids, One Mixtape, And a Crazy Night in NYC
Who wouldn't want to spend a crazy night in NYC? (Copyright Columbia Pictures, obtained from Wikipedia) So – after passing the above poster in the subways all of last September, and much protracted...
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What’s the Artist Got To Do With it, Anyway?
Not too long ago, I wrote a love letter to Roving Hearts, identifying Waltz for Koop as a gem within the world of nu-jazz (or whatever you want to call it) -seamlessly sampling decades of jazz to...
View ArticleFW:FW:FW: Things Girls Don’t Realize About Guys – THE TRUTH
My friends, we live in a time of utmost uncertainty. The internets are rife with information that is incomplete, half-true, or just plain wrong. Take for instance, an e-mail I got this morning while I...
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Quick Pick: Warrior of the Light
Two years ago, I finally got to reading a book everyone told me I ought to read – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, the bestselling Brazillian author. It was a short, but deeply moving tale with...
View ArticleShort Story: Memories of Hazey Jane
I won’t try to speak for all writers, but sometimes I do think that story ideas are literally a dime a dozen. Most days they invite themselves over, emerging from the recesses of your mind, making...
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Vay Kay in the Sunshine State: Prologue
At 4 AM, my alarm unceremoniously summoned me to the world of the waking. As I massaged my eyes, willing my legs to come alive, I asked myself: “When you’re unemployed, isn’t every day a vacation day?”...
View ArticleMovies: Coraline
If you roam the streets of the East Village, you might not even think there’s a recession gripping the country. It was only the middle of the week,but the restaurants were filled, people walked around...
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Walking the Hemingway
I could write an entire post about how good a novella The Old Man and the Sea is, but the Pulitzer Prize committee has conveniently done that for me. Suffice to say that reading Hemingway is like...
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