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Baby, You Can Talk To Me
This week I had two radio shows,filling in for my friend Paul on his Thursday night show, and then doing my own on Saturday. It's been a long, hard week and certain things aren't working out quite the...
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Low Pressure
The future looks pretty bright from where my guitar is sitting but the present keeps pulling the rug out from under me.Not long ago, I met a woman that I really liked and while my head was still...
View ArticleGood, Bad and Beyond the Pale
I'm surprised at how fun and relatively easy my experiment with on-line dating has been lately. Nothing serious yet, just a few casual daytime meetings, ranging from charmingly engaging to slightly...
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Don't Let Them Grind You Down
Bummer. What the hell is wrong with all the men I meet, you think. Why can't I meet a guy who isn't a total creep? Someone that I'm not ashamed to be seen in public with? The last guy called me the...
View ArticleThe Trick Is To Be Smarter Than The Yogurt
My company recently sent out the first issue of our 'official' in-company newsletter. The lead stories are a really, really long joke about a dog ("Doggone Funny") and a manager's secret recipe for...
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Stab My Back But Please Don't Shoot Me
Last year ended with the revelation that someone I loved and trusted had betrayed me, had been betraying me for months in fact, but their betrayal of my trust had kept them quite busy, so there hadn't...
View ArticleCatching Up, Going Out
Things have been a bit hectic but the show must go on - and so must the podcast of the show. Now if you'll excuse me, I have been invited to dinner by one of my recent coffee dates and I need to make...
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How Failure Saved My Life
I'm ashamed to admit that I'd never paid any real notice to Amy Winehouse before her death. The first time I saw her image was in a series of caricature sketches that a long-ago penpal sent me, the...
View ArticleHow To Listen To The Radio In 2011
Podcast here... THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB JULY 30 2011Sparks- Intro/I've Never Been High Amy Winehouse- Amy, Amy, AmyEdwinn Starr- Who Cares If You Are Happy Or Not? (I Do)F&M- Another Closing...
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A Head Full of Quandry and a Mighty, Mighty Thirst
I love my radio friendsThere are many ways to cope with the lingering spectre of depression. One way would to stay up all night listening to six billion...
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Is My Moral Code Written In Invisible Ink?
I have often heard alcoholics talk about how their lives became "unmanageable" when they drank, which is something that I , as an alcoholic myself, do not really fully understand.For me, the more I...
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The E=MC5²
Do you remember the days when you could get 10 free record albums just by writing a fake name on a Columbia House Record Club coupon and dropping it in a mailbox?The card gave a few choices of...
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Sonics and Tonics
Sometimes I have dreams in which I still have a full head of hair. I call these dreams 'nightmares' because my life used to suck back in the days when I had hair. I've been shaving my head for nearly...
View ArticleArticle 11
An eventful week for me:On Monday I had the honor of being a guest on the multi-talented Lakota Phillips' thought-provoking radio program Breaking Taboo on New Dissident Radio. It was great to make a...
View ArticleQuaking In My Booths
The 9th floor of a downtown Richmond office building is a really shitty place to be when an earthquake hits. When ours hit, the building started rocking back and forth crazily, knocking picture frames...
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What Could Go Wrong?
Godzilla bless you, Daryl Hannah. We need more celebrities to step up and get busted for speaking out against the XL Keystone Pipeline. The Keystone XL is a proposed 1,700 mile pipeline that will carry...
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I Trust My Guitar
This past Monday I had the pleasure of being a guest on Lakota Phillips' talk program Breaking Taboo, which airs weekly on New Dissident Radio. It was the second time I've been on and I must say I...
View ArticleSix Years After
Yesterday was my sixth anniversary of sobriety and I forgot to celebrate it. I did take the day off from work, but that was to go to DMV in order to get my driver's license renewed. It really wasn't...
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Don't Make Me Hit You
It has been a long, long time since I beat the shit out of somebody just because they deserved it. In fact, I'm pretty sure the last time was the winter of 8th Grade and that the person was my brother-...
View ArticleHousekeeping and Peanut Rage
I meant to update my template or something- I forget exactly what I intended to do- and then I got distracted and kinda forgot that I had a blog and that I'd left it languishing in virtual limbo for...
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Flinging
Where did my human go? Throwing shit isn't fun without a target.It has been a while since I blogged and there's a good reason for that. Well two reasons, really, but only one...
View ArticleNovember The Dozenth
THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB: 11/12/2011Originally aired on WRIR 97.3 FM RichmondPodcast: http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55765 _____________________________________ Pink Floyd- Up The...
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Happiness Is The New Mid-Life Crisis
THE NEW BREAKFAST SNOB 3.31.2012Originally aired on WRIR 97.3 FM RichmondPodcast: Right here.----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Garbage -Blood For Poppies I...
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