Category Archives: Aging

Is It Just Me?

>mebeliмебели стара загораo I come from some subset of the world population that was predisposed to end up believing that the best years of our lives are behind us?
I used to believe that it was just me, that I was some sort of mutant ball of depression that was happier in my younger days and [...]

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Selective Memory

I have a hard time realizing that I even lived through the eighties. I can easily watch movies on HBO like Earth Girls Are Easy and Vision Quest and completely disconnect myself from the setting, freely commenting to myself in my head how funny the clothes and haircuts were. I can never seem [...]

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That’s What She Said (The Old People Version or New Year’s Eve Part II)

Before the party we had thought up the idea to set all the clocks forward by an hour so we could celebrate midnight at 11pm, finish the gig, and make it to the bar to party with our friends by the real midnight. I’m not sure why we didn’t actually do it (that’s what [...]

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We Rock?

Saturday I had a gig with Total Eclipse. Let me just say Saturday at noon is not the best time to hire a band. You see unless your friends are drunk, free from their kids, and visually enhanced by dark corners or black lights they don’t really want to party like rock stars [...]

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I spied with my own little eye…

…at the 2007 Major League Baseball All-star game…

…a tourist stopping to sit his son on the sidewalk in a group of homeless people to take his picture with him holding their sign that read “In need of weed and beer.” (Awww…the beauty of summer in San Francisco never gets old?)
…a grown man jump down three [...]

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Man, I’m Tired

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After a long weekend including a gig in Santa Cruz and with little sleep and only 6 hours of sleep between Sunday and Monday nights, I’m beat. One of the cool things about being tired for me is that when I’m this tired, it’s the only time I [...]

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