To all of my friends. To all of my family. To all the drunks who didn’t hit me on the way home. To all of the people that I love so goddamn much. Happy New Year.

Howdy. I hope wherever you are that you’re around the people that love you and the people you love and that even under all of the stress of wrapping and unwrapping fruits of the mall, that you take time to smile. I know you probably don’t want/expect/prefer to get this whole hippie new-age love crap from me and my megaphone, [...]

For much of the past few weeks, my interns have been worried/consumed/anxious by the thought of impending finals. Two of my interns had finals on Friday night from 7:30-9:30. There are things I don’t miss about college. Anyway, intern Stomper (brilliant creative genius) sent me a message to see if I’d be interested in a snowman building operation. Having had [...]

I kinda started feeling a bit boxed up last night and I got this strong urge to go play in the snow. So I loaded up a few layers of clothes, my inner twelve year old, and I hit the road. I went down to the beach and I randomly jumped into snowbanks and tried climbing trees. Then I kinda [...]

Hello old chum. What’s new? How’s everything in your world? As mad and as full of zing as ever, I suppose. I hope. Your host, as wobbly a title as that may be, is milling about toward the holiday break with all of the charm and grace of a recently sheared wheat field. Drab introductions and niceties out of the [...]

Hello. Thanks for stopping by. It’s awfully easy to get reclusive in weather like this. It’s raining ice, and that’s as good a reason as any to kinda sit at home this weekend and work on things (oh, Ben, what a departure from your usually glorious and celebrity laden calendar!) like cleaning and finishing a book with a rapidly approaching [...]