Pumpkin Seeds: Opening Day Edition
1. Multiple entries starting @ 4:20pm; alcohol-fueled, heavily edited for typos. 2. F**k a stereotype! It’s Sunday. Football’s on. Wife and kids are out of the house. Fridge is full of cheap, leftover beer. The Jets just won an exciting season opener. All four of my fantasy teams are in the mix so far. I’m
Pumpkin Seeds: Gone Fishin’ Edition
1. The good thing about a five-day weekend is it gives you a chance to slow things down a little bit and get a better sense of where you are. The bad thing about it is it might confirm your discontent with where you are. 2. My volunteer stint at the UnConvention was a pleasant
Pumpkin Seeds: 2004 VMA Edition
1) Did Outkast officially step beyond the constraints of hip-hop and establish themselves as pure musical artists able to weave sonic magic from thin air? 2) Did Usher finally break through the inexplicable logjam of cookie cutter whiteboys and their stolen dance moves with his two awards last night? 3) Has a celebrity ever seemed
Pumpkin Seeds: Are You Ready For Some Football? Edition
1. Thanks to Eliel, I’m going to tonight’s Jets/Giants pre-season game! Guess that means I really can’t back out of his feature at 13 on Monday, hunh? 😉 2. The football season couldn’t have been better timed, what with the Mets doing their best impersonation of Justin Guarini’s entertainment “career.” Please, please, please give me
Pumpkin Seeds: Randomonia Edition
1. Salomé doesn’t want her own blog because she hates those that are of the self-absorbed, “Today, I went to…” variety. Between that and her complete disdain for politics, I’m starting to believe she really does only use my blog for the links to other people’s blogs. That’s what she tells me, at least! Meanwhile,
Pumpkin Seeds: Wizard of Oz Edition
1. I have no problem with anonymous comments – not everybody wants/needs to sign up for a Blogger account – but to do so maliciously, purposely hiding your identity so you can make hurtful or inflammatory statements is just cowardly, petty bullshit. To go so far as to create a fake Blogger account for the
Weddings
When Salomé and I got married back in 1998, it was a step into completely foreign territory as none of our close friends were married, few even in serious relationships. Not counting my father’s shotgun second marriage at town hall 18 years earlier, I’d never even been to a wedding before! Our wedding was a
Pumpkin Seeds: Countdown to 35 Sedition
1. I turn 35 in 26 days! If you order my gift now, Amazon’s free shipping offer will get it here in plenty of time. 🙂 2. I know it’s wrong to take pleasure in others’ drama, even in an I told you so situation, but if this is true, I can’t help but be
PUMPKIN SEEDS: Short Weeks Feel Longer Edition
1. Sixth anniversary weekend was a big hit as we caught a couple of movies, had a great dinner with friends, hit a street fair, bought stuff and slept until 12:30pm on Sunday. I even got some Xbox and GameBoy time in. (Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay rawks! Castlevania: Circle of the Moon is
Pumpkin Seeds: Comic Book Roundup
1. These days, most comic books are written in story arcs of 3-6 issues; more for limited series. At best, this means fuller stories with more complex plotting and deeper characterization. At worst, it’s filler and fluff. Typically, it’s the worst that dominates the bookshelves and sales charts. 2. There are way too many X-Men-related titles