The stock market’s been getting pummeled over the past week - with the Dow dropping below 10,000 again - despite three months of optimistic job growth and starry-eyed predictions of a full-on economic recovery. Much as the pundits want to, though, you can’t force a rebound to happen with wishful thinking, and you can’t play [...]
What do American Idol and poetry slam have in common?
A little bit of irony to set it up first.
As a kid, I was notorious for always being late. Not a few minutes late, either, but often an hour or more. Because my mother was pretty strict, I knew 5 minutes was as bad as [...]
Today’s navel-gazing missive about the meaning of life and the fallacy of the American Dream will be pre-empted for in-the-moment coverage of some late-breaking news: my main man Eric Guerrieri is leaving town.
He just called me a little while ago with the news that he’s moving to Colorado…in two weeks! It’s a great, [...]
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
–Andy Warhol
Thanks to the new and improved Blogger, say goodbye to the angry pumpkin and welcome pragmatic idealism!
Kind of like the sad women on The Swan, the changes here are all cosmetic; the ugly “insides” remain. Unlike their nose jobs and [...]
Pumpkin Seeds: Survivor Edition
1. Call me a sap but last night’s Survivor catapulted the show back to the top of my favorites list. Rob proposing to Amber, before the winner was declared, was one of the coolest TV moments ever. EVER!
2. There was more drama, humor and energy in last night’s three-hour finale than in [...]
