Category: General

Last night was some geek goodness at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater.  The machinima-powered comedy team Ill Clan teamed up with the folk music star of the blogosphere Jonathan Coulton to perform live last night at UCB’s midtown theater space.  Seeing Ill Clan perform their "Trash Talk" show live was pretty cool. The virtual characters…

Hanging out at Cindy’s place in mid-town, I peeked out the window and saw what looked like a little hawk standing motionless on the sidewalk. We headed out to check on the little guy, just as a small crowd was gathering around him. We debated about what we should do. Someone tried calling 311. Cindy…

I got a call this morning from the Citibank fraud prevention unit about some odd charges to my Mastercard.  I cleared that up in short order with one of their telephone reps, assuring me that my identity was not being stolen.  Been there, done that, got the bad credit report to show for it. As…

Cindy and I spent a lovely May day recently hanging out in Queens. First stop was Columbian food in Corona. Colombian tamales are filled with a little bit of everything — beef, chicken, pork, vegetables, the works. Really a meal wrapped in banana leaves. Then we headed to the Queens Museum of Art, where we…

Here is a selection of my pictures from my splendid day running around the Brooklyn Botanic Garden shooting the Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival). First a little rant. I found myself trying to contain my annoyance with kids and adults who purposely shook the branches to get the delicate petals to rain down on them….

I just had a lovely day at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens for the Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom) Festival there. Pictures will be posted as soon as I get a chance to winnow them down to a reasonable amount. For now, here’s a video I took of the dancing fountain in front of the Brooklyn Museum….

For those who don’t know, I help run a nation-wide community website for swing dancers called Yehoodi.com. Among our many services, I co-host a podcast with my pal Manu “Spuds” Smith featuring news and talk about the national (and increasingly international) swing scene. You can hear us clowning around if you download episode 315 of…

Some people have been asking about this “swing dancing” cult that I’m involved in. Sometimes called “jitterbug” or just “swing,” those in the know call our dance the “lindy hop,” since that’s what the original dancers in Harlem in the 40s used to call it. Here are a couple of clips of me dancing lindy…

I decided to upgrade the look of this site to something a bit more personalized than the standard Typepad template I was using. Shoot me a comment or email if you find this design eye-straining or broken in any way. The picture of the radio I use in the new logo was taken at a…