Author: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

India Gets a New Care Bear We trekked up to Lawrence Farms Orchards again on Saturday to have an apple-picking/pumpkin-picking/picnic party for India's 5th birthday and the unseasonably warm October weather was absolutely perfect for it! (More pictures @ Flickr.) India, who doesn't like birthday parties at all, handled things pretty well, though she had no interest in her cake and didn't warm up to the idea of opening her presents until we peeked behind the wrapping paper of one of them and she realized a Care Bear was inside! Prior to that, she had dissed a gift bag full…

Randolph & Glavine 1:09pm Guy is holding his breath, crossing his fingers, and dressed in full Mets gear. His kids, too. --I even got Salomé to put on something: my long-sleeve Mr. Mets shirt!  We are ready to rock, though separately as I'm the only one actually watching the game. 1:31pm Guy is thinking Tom Glavine is welcome to return to Atlanta next season.--Things started to fall apart almost immediately as Glavine made some good pitches but the Marlins were hitting them anyway. Never a good sign. I never really warmed up to Glavine being a Met as it was…

I've never been a fan of posting locked entries behind a "Friends and Family" filter, but I've found myself doing it a few times recently and wanted to give the handful of you who I know read but don't have a Vox account (or read through LiveJournal cross-posts) a heads-up that I've been posting a little more than it might seem lately. Not much, and nothing terribly exciting or secretive, mind you, but there is a new post today. If you want access, get yourself a Vox account and add me to your neighborhood. Be sure to identify yourself if you're using a screename…

Warren Wallace for GEICO READY TO STRIKE! I liked the Gecko for the first year or two, but can't stand him any more, and the Cavemen were fun until someone came up with the stupid idea to turn them into a TV show. As good as both campaigns were in the beginning, they're rather overexposed at this point and should really be retired, or at least taken out of heavy rotation. Warren Wallace, though, is a hoot!  Wherever they found this kid, with his deadpan delivery, precocious personality and my new favorite catchphrase, he's a winner. Not that it influences my decisions at all (not usually),…

1) Spindle: It's where the majority of my free (and not-so-free) time has gone the past week as I've been tweaking things in the background since the site "soft launched" last Wednesday. I pulled some different featured content to the front for those not inclined to wandering the City aimlessly -- something I plan to do on a weekly basis -- and am pulling together new content for an October 1 update.  Response so far has been terrific, both to the site design and the content, and I'm putting out the first official mass Call for Submissions tonight, distributing flyers at louderARTS and placing a…

Spindle, Orange Logo http://www.spindlezine.com is now live! The soft launch, actually, but with a good amount of content to give a sense of which part of left field I’m coming from with this thing while still leaving plenty more surprises to come. Please take a look, poke around the site a bit, see if you can break anything, and let me know what you think. More importantly, let my contributors know what you think by leaving comments on anything that moves you, for better or worse. To my contributors, in particular, a million and one thanks for indulging my latest…