You would think that, after getting two weeks behind, one might simply wipe the slate clean, call those two weeks without ‘7 Things’ a “vacation” and get on with it. You would think. But leaving it like that would feel incomplete, and I just can’t do it. Even if it means filling the void with…
Tonight, I sat amongst a crowd. One of many watching Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue bring their modern jazz stylings to the stage. The music opened up the night sky and the rain fell. In the quiet moments, they became one and the same, brass instrumentation set against the uneven rhythm of water drops on…
This blog has been making the rounds on the Internets – Dear Hypothetically Gay Son – and rightly so. I think it’s beautiful and a very gentle touch at a time when it feels like so many heavy hands are swinging both directions when it comes to gay rights. This part in particular – “You are not…
Catching up for last week. Only one day late. Which, for me, is sorta on time. Like when I meet someone who knows me well at a restaurant five minutes late, and they look at me with great joy because they realize how easily it could have been twenty. Because my slightly late is on…
About this time every year, I come to the resounding conclusion that I am, in fact, a loser. Sandwiched as I am here between my birthday and my next great writing disappointment, it’s a perfect crossroads of self-contemplation. The kind of crossroads where you meet the devil and he’s all like “Guuurrrl, have I got…
As surprising as I know this must be, I’m behind. This post belongs to the week of July 15-21. It was during the latter part of the week of July 15-21 that the nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards were announced. In honor of that announcement, here are seven random thoughts on TV. Some of…