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The Black Spot: Real Estate

May 13, 2011

I was trying to remember 2006. Really, though, I was trying to remember if Ryan and I were actually as funny as we thought we were on the Black Spot back in 2006. We were. Sort of. I found this clip of the two of us bantering back and forth on voices and infomercials and [...]

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The Black Spot: Returns

May 12, 2011

This would be a semi-clever title if it were a sequel to a podcast about finance or anything business related. It isn’t. I used to have a little weekly radio show up in San Francisco, a talk show, with my buddy Ryan. It was called The Black Spot and it ran Monday nights from 10-midnight [...]

Adorable Ransom

February 15, 2011

I saw this ad on Amazon from the ASPCA. Of course, you see these all the time, sometimes even on the television. And they all go the same way. ”Help us save this animal.” And we look at how cute and sad it is. Who wouldn’t want to save this dog? I get that animals [...]

Modern3: Ep. 1

December 13, 2010

In this first episode of the Daily3 I take a little less than three minutes to explore the absurdity of trying to record anything with by bloody cat around. Naturally, the cat gets a bit of the stage fright just as I concede its mewing.

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Cat Nap

October 22, 2010

Yoga is for dickheads. And I don’t even try to stretch before or after a workout anymore. Still, I’ve managed to stay limber and sprightly nearly all my life. The key is taking a solid cat nap each and every day. There’s something about contorting my torso in half while pointing my limbs in uncompromising directions that I [...]

Five Topics I’m Not Writing About Today

May 3, 2010

Being a writer means treating it like any day-job: you ought to work at it every day, and you can’t just cheat it. But I’ve been busy the last few days with my actual day job and, frankly, nothing has fired me up saying, “Write me! Write the shit out of me!” So here’s a [...]

“Cats Know Where The People Poop” – TNB

February 10, 2010

One of my cats has started following me into the bathroom. Most of the day, he sleeps under the bed, while I am on the couch. At night, we switch. As I see it, I respect his territory and he respects mine, with only minimal crossover for such necessary exchanges as food-in-bowl and pet-on-head (he is, after [...]

Are people still whispering?

August 6, 2009

Are people still whispering? Remember when the Horse Whisperer came out, and within the next few years whispering was all the rage? They had dog whispereres, cat whisperers. There was a guy, I kid you not, whispered to children. I don’t mean like for storytime or make-believe, I mean he watches them and then twists their [...]