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Saturday Night Fever

January 11, 2011 8 Comments

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This is where I'm supposed to live

In July of last year, I posted a …

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This is where I’m supposed to live

January 5, 2011 14 Comments

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This is where I'm supposed to live

This was the view from our lounge chairs alongside the…

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Sparklin’ New Year

January 3, 2011 25 Comments

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Sparklin' New Year

And now, here we are … January 3rd … and, so far, I’m not …

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I’m kind of like a superhero who saves people … except the people I save usually aren’t in any real danger other than that which I’ve conjured up in my own wildly neurotic imagination, but still …

December 19, 2010 17 Comments

Last weekend, my mother-in-law treated me, my wife, our kids, our nephew and WW’s older brother to the Philly Pops’ annual holiday concert at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts — or, as I like to call it, The Anxiety-Provoking Center for the Provocation of Anxiety in the Overly Neurotic Parent Who Fears the Accidental Falling from Great Heights and Subsequent Premature Death of His Children and Nephew.

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Ground control

November 29, 2010 7 Comments

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Ground control

Last Friday, after spending a week visiting with my family for the first time since becoming Pennsylvania residents, I…

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Hair today, gone … well, today, actually

October 12, 2010 29 Comments

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Hair today, gone ... well, today, actually'

Once, when I was about four years old, I exited the playroom of my house while holding over my head a…

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If at first you don’t succeed, kill, kill again

October 6, 2010 30 Comments

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If at first you don't succeed, kill, kill again'

You know what’s awesome? Standing with your children in front of…

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Keepin’ it klassy

September 29, 2010 52 Comments

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Keepin' it klassy'

Spotted while I was out grabbing some lunch today. The thing that astounds me is…

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Hell hath no fury like white-male privilege threatened

Daddy Vader

If not for The Force, Darth Vader would have totally gotten his ass kicked, because that suit? Not very practical.

There must be a reckoning

Is it November yet?

Take Me Out to the Therapist… Take Me Out to the Shrink…

Turns out I have a bright future ahead of me ... in a field about which I know nothing

Man, this finding-a-new-job thing is going to be easier than I thought

Zombie Dinner Party … with your chef, Dr. Hannibal Lector

Van Halen (or, The Band That Ate My Life)

Gene Simmons on stage

Dear Gene Simmons of KISS, a.k.a. My Childhood Hero: I think there’s been a terrible misunderstanding. Either that, or you’re an overly sensitive dick.

No, really: This job-search thing is like shooting fish in a barrel

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Jon Zal @ The Massachusetts State House, Boston

I was born in 1970, raised just outside of Boston, and now live near Philadelphia. As a child, I thought I was going to be…
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