I was just walking outside and was impressed to see a bunch of people wearing costumes during the day. Adults. These people were not content to just don the costume for a few evening hours. They want to savor the whole day, so they freaking OWN it. For instance, went to an audition today and [...]
Archive > October 2008
Pizza Wars
When I was traveling abroad, in order to make sense of whatever countries’ currency quickly, I developed my own economic indicator. I used a can of Coke. However much it took to buy a coke, I would then scale that to grasp how much things could buy. That was back when you could buy a [...]
The Incline Gets A Shout Out
Watching the Gints vs the ‘Burgh right now and they just showed the freakin’ Incline! For those of you not in the know… the Incline is this old timey amusement in Pittsburgh. It’s a people mover. For the people that live at the top of Mount Washington which is on the south side of the [...]
Week 6, Song du Jour: Borges
Welcome to Week 6 of Song du Jour! Today, I was inspired by this ball of twine that was left in my apartment in an old toolbox. Jake and Bert like to play with it. It reminded me of this really cool poem by Borges where he has a monologue by a lonely old man [...]
Villain Accessories
For some reason, I continue to watch Prison Break. I’m curious if Tanouye still does. But one thing that is still fun about PB is the over-the-top villains. This past episode had one of them pulling a David Caruso because he seemed unusually fond of his sunglasses. He didn’t even take them off to shoot [...]
A little bit of live music
I’m going to be performing this weekend at the Magnet as the musical guest for a sketch show on Sunday. Performing two songs so not bringing the whole band but Mr. Flynn Barrison will be there on clarinet and sweet sweet harmonies. We’ll be playing “Halloween, 1987″ for sure—you gotta use those seasonal songs when [...]
Week 5, Song du Jour: Checkout
It’s Friday, so it’s time for another Song du Jour. This week, I had some music in mind, but I didn’t really have any song topic in mind so I looked around the room and found something to use. It’s sort of weird combination of David Bowie and Peter Gabriel. Singing… a grocery list. Song [...]
Fakeout.
Saturday was Kathrine’s bday. So I, being an awesome guy decided to try and pull a prank on her by giving her a fake gift. Know this: She hates Garrison Keilor and has told me about it many times. So when I saw he was doing a show at Town Hall for most of December, [...]
Song du Jour: I Just Want To Eat Chinese
Here is week 4 of Song du Jour. Check out this song inspired by a fight on my street… Song du Jour: I Just Want To Eat Chinese from Nate Shelkey on Vimeo.
