A long week for me, missing my wife and daughter, and I finally reach my last day in Seattle.  It’s a little cooler this a.m. so I throw on my running shoes, grab my iPod shuffle and listen to Seattle’s own and one of my favorite bands, Alice in Chains, and… Read full post »

Didn’t wake up at the crack of dawn as I had planned.  The reunion party at the wine cellar went later than I anticipated.  I did squeeze in a ride though, up and down and up and down the Key, the old haunts flying by.  Afterward I hit a new place… Read full post »

This afternoon I finally venture out to the beach under dark blue/black skies and a wind that blew loose sand over hard making the beach look like the set for Lawrence of Arabia.  Still, I managed to get my run in to assuage my guilt for the debauchery sure to ensue… Read full post »

It’s pretty cloudy out, overcast really, a serious bummer considering I’m staying at a little dive hotel just steps from the unbelievably gorgeous white powder sands of Siesta Beach.  I’m here in Sarasota to go to my 30^th high school reunion (holy shit, 30 years? Really?) an… Read full post »

            Yesterday was one of those typically scorching hot summer days here in Sacramento.  Could be worse, but because of our location in the central valley of California, the humidity is not nearly so dire.  Still, it was hot enough to get me and the… Read full post »

Padma Colicchio?

You call this amuse bouche?—more like amuse buffet.

Why do I always have to do the cooking?

I don’t want to eat this I don’t want to eat this I don’t want to eat…

That’s what she said hee hee.

Salt.   Way more salt.… Read full post »

People magazine, through inside sources, has obtained scripted documentation concerning the Big Announcement forthcoming from TLC’s hit show, Jon & Kate plus 8. The following exclusive sneak peek is provided unedited from said sources.

INT. JON & KATE INTERVIEW SET - MORNING

K… Read full post »

The morning started off with a whimper.  Once again, as right now, I stayed up way too late the night before making sure my post was just right.  My wife was no help, ensconced as she was reading fan fiction concerning her newest obsession, those Twilight vampire books, and neither of… Read full post »

It’s funny how things that were the world to us when we were skinnier and had more hair sometimes go by the wayside.  We don’t want it to happen, but life happens and our priorities change.  That doesn’t mean those things no longer hold any import, they’ve just been… Read full post »

     I’ve been here in L.A. for a year now.  I'm an actor.  Sometimes.  Okay, rarely.  It's been kinda tough, but at least this morning I've got some money for breakfast, so I hoofed it over to Duke's on Sunset to quaff down some eggs and bacon.

&nb… Read full post »

Organizer: Pssst…pssst.

Sam ignores him.

Organizer: Hey.  Psssssst.

Sam (perturbed): What?

Organizer: What’s your name?

Sam: Sam.

Organizer: Sam what?

Sam: Sam the Elf.

Organizer: You been here long Sam the Elf?

Sam: Look mister, I’m just trying to do my job here. … Read full post »

I've got writer's disease, that insidious little bug that works on my brain like a jackhammer, telling me to observe.  In silence.  Just observe.  And remember.  And listen.  Watch people.  Snoop.  Yep, I’ve got writer’s disease, and I'm one sick puppy.… Read full post »

Another business trip, alone again in a another strange city, missing my wife, my daughter, my dog.  I’m going out to eat, having overcome any trepidation about sitting alone in a restaurant seventy or eighty cities ago after ordering room service for about the millionth time.  I try… Read full post »

The thing that has stayed with me the longest is the smell, the most vile mixture of bleach, geriatrics, and shit. That and the pleas for help as they lay in bed, their broken bodies so tiny beneath institutional blankets, narrow lips parting ever so, "Help me, please, help me," as… Read full post »

1. Richard Pryor, Actor/Comedian Extraordinaire, circa 1970.  I was about 9 years-old, at O’Hare Airport with my sister Linda and my father.  Linda spotted Mr. Pryor wearing an attention-getting white fur coat.  On his arm was a beautiful woman.  Linda excitedly pointed him… Read full post »

In honor of bike month (and the fact that last night was cheat night and I did some serious damage to a couple of innocent cheeseburgers), I woke up very early Saturday morning for a nice little training ride on the American River Bike Trail here in Sacramento.

About a… Read full post »