February 2012
16 posts
A guy in my online 1969 Strat-O-Matic League (in...
…sent me this after I complained that my star was hitting .224 with no homers and 2 RBI after 13 games.
“Maybe too much white flour and carbs”
My sister Harriet has officially begun the parlor...
She likes Courtney Love as Janet. And Paul Giamatti as Phil. I have to tell her that insuring Courtney would probably break the budget.
I hate to do this, but I’m the only one. So, let’s have your suggestions.
A profoundly humble and courageous message from...
Okay, I can tell you since we just closed the...
EVERYTHING HURTS was just optioned by the trio that made “Our Idiot Brother,” director Jesse Peretz, his sister Evgenia and her husband David Schisgall, who will write the script with Jesse.
I am beyond thrilled because the three of them work outside the studio system, work quickly, and get things made. We had an absolute lovefest of a lunch a month ago which I will go into detail in...
Guy I started with at Catch a Rising Star, Fred...
55....
Not my favorite number, but at dinner with my wife and my other best friend Barbara Gaines, so who’s got it better than me?
Arguably, the most famous point guard to come out...
….was a fellow named Glenn Fine from Elkins Park, Pa. He came to Harvard a year before me, took a year off and then roomed with me and two other guys our senior year. This makes me Bob Sommerby. Who is Bob Sommerby? Exactly. Bob Sommerby was the third guy in a Harvard suite in late 1960s. The other two were Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones. Sommerby became an incredibly underrated comic. When...
Tumblr-mate Pablo Torre and I went to the Garden...
….on the most quixotic of ventures. We hoped the Knicks would either beat the Charlotte Bobcats by enough or lose by enough so there could be garbage time for their recently signed 12th man, former Harvard point guard Jeremy Lin. Didn’t happen.
So, I don’t want to say we were way way way ahead of the field on this one. Well yeah, I do.
He may be the first guy from Harvard the...
Red Lion Post-gig recap, a week later....
Here’s how you know it went well. When the sound guy comes up to you as you’re breaking down and says, “This was great. So nice to hear something different than the same ten songs.”
And here’s how you really know it went well. When the waitresses come up to you independently and say, “This is the best Wednesday we’ve had in months. We told the manager to...
Thoughts nine hours before kickoff....
I am 14 years old and lying on the floor of my freshman dorm room in Ashley House. Given that the room is 6x10 and has a bed, desk and dresser, it is pretty remarkable that there is room for me to lie on the floor. But I am 5’1”, 93 pounds, so maybe not that remarkable.
It is late October, 1971 and even though I am going to love Deerfield Academy, I am not quite done being homesick....
Last Truants Live Video before recap: "Kicks/Have...
Truants Live at the Red Lion: "Little Girl"
