What. A. Day. First of all: you asked for a donation button. Why, I’m happy to help; I’ve set it up with PayPal, and as I might expect, it doesn’t work. Yet. Some sort of verification needs to occur. When the bytes move through the digestive system and cough up useable code, I’ll slap it [...]

There is a Diner today. Can’t let Halloween go by without a Diner. I haven’t done any for a while for two simple reasons: life got busy, and –
Well, first the Busy part. I’m now firmly seated in the new schedule, and I am starting to exhale. As long as I can nap, it’s [...]

The front has passed; the wind is gone. We look overhead and see stars. The great seasonal change is over, and summer – never too sure of itself until it rallied in the ninth – is a past-tense subject. I walked outside this afternoon when it was 57; the wind may have taken it down [...]

It’s a rare day at the office when you come away exhilarated from a two-hour meeting in a windowless room, talking to a disembodied voice coming from a plastic starfish in the middle of the table, but this was one of them. As I keep saying: I’ve had more fun at the job in the [...]

Was going to post this in the AM, but thought I’d look at it again. Good thing, since there’s more. Now with Bill Maher and hot HBO-canceling action!
So David’s apologized; good. Not going to carp. My work here is done! Yes, my piece in the New York Post pushed him over the edge, and activated [...]

The kids tumbled off the bus with grins and shrieks today: school’s done. They sloughed off their backpacks and headed up the hill for the swings, as they always do, but this time it meant something more; since each backpack was crammed with the compacted detritus of their desks and lockers, they’d literally shed the [...]

Up and out this morning. The usual botheration en route; love those people who make a point of getting in front of you, then drive below the posted limit. Their entire purpose is to keep you from getting through a light ten blocks up ahead. They are . . . THE CONFOUNDERS. Their agents are [...]

Woke in the middle of the night, checked the clock: 4:12. Good. That meant I had three hours of REM under the belt, and I’d have three more if I didn’t start thinking. But I wanted to start thinking. I’d had a fascinating dream. I played it reverse, from its complex ending back to the [...]

New Newsbreak up. This is closer to what I want to do. I have ten things to accomplish in the first few weeks – in my stints, anyway; the other anchors are free to tweak and improvise as they like, of course. 1) Move people in and out, so it’s not just one guy yapping; [...]

I’m getting spammed in the comments by an ISO implementation vendor. Dudes: No.  Trust me, people aren’t poking through comment sections about retro YouTube ads looking for someone to make them ISO compliant. Whichever “Online Marketing Strategy Agency” you hired, you’re wasting your money. Also, the award for sneaking a tranny link into a blog [...]