I know the feeling has been bothering me for a while now, but it wasn’t until today that I was finally able to really put it all together in my head: Probably the most depressing part of my job is the surprising number of people I talk to every day with these really lofty “let’s [...]

Quite by accident the other night a friend discovered that a White Russian in which you substitute vanilla rum for the vodka tastes exactly like Werther’s Original caramels. I showed the drink to Cameron this afternoon and he dubbed the butterscotchy concoction a Werther’s Dirigible. I like it. Try it yourself: 1 part vanilla rum, [...]

I’m not quite sure how it’s happened, but since moving to Portland I’ve somehow been snookered not once but twice into having drinks at what I like to call “whoopdy-fuckin-doo” bars. The first time was at a little place called Rocket, where Adam had — for reasons unknown to me — arranged to meet a [...]

I like the term monkey business a great deal because even if monkeys are conducting what they think is business, it’s just shenanigans by people standards.

I started taking jazz drum lessons today. Is that enough of an update?