I know that the goal was that every time I posted six songs over on Tumblr, I’d come back here and recap them all for your listening (and reading) pleasure.

But, alas, it hasn’t work out that way.

But the good news: now you’re getting a double dose of Six Songs with 12 (yes, 12!) tracks in total. This should help you kill a good chunk of the afternoon, I think.

Six Songs (times two)

“Loving You’s the Dumbest [Fucking] Thing I’ve Ever Done” Reckless Kelly

“Astral Weeks” Van Morrison

“Mambo Sun” T-Rex

“Valentine’s Day Is Over” Billy Bragg

“Reach Up for the Sunrise” Duran Duran

“Gila” Beach House

“Imagination” Xymox

“From Head to Toe” Elvis Costello

“Anything You Want” Spoon

“The Battle of Evermore” Led Zeppelin

“Gentle On My Mind” Glen Campbell

“Bungle In The Jungle” Jethro Tull

Once again, I’d like to reiterate how much I love being able to post songs directly onto Tumblr – after years of writing about them, this is an effing revelation. The only problem (of course there’s a problem) is that you can only post mp3 files, so I’m working from a ... read more

I’ve always wanted to take a day off of work, go to a dive bar before noon, and sit there, getting bombed all day/evening/night until they had to cut me off. (Not because I was being a dick or anything, but just because, well, that’s enough.) Everyone uses vacation days for travel or family events or whatnot, but I want to use one to sit alone at a dive and get really fucking drunk.

And of all the bars I’ve been to over all the years I’ve lived in NYC, I think I’d pick Kabin Lounge on 2nd Ave in the East Village for my special day. Tremendous dive, and I never know if I feel totally safe and at home or if I should prepare to fight each time I walk out of the bathroom. My kinda place.

(And yes, I’m here now. But just for one drink. Swear.)

Also, didn’t this movie just come out, like, three months ago and star Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman?



You’re awesome, Hollywood.

I got to the shore house about noon yesterday, so I’ve been here for around 34 hours now. The reason I am here is to work on my book, which is due to Harper on October 1 and will be out next summer (I can’t tell you the title yet, but it’s fucking terrific). I’ve taken two days off from work (I’ll be here until Tuesday, back to work on Wednesday) in order to focus, put my head down, and do some serious writing here, alone, at the beach house.

Things I’ve accomplished so far since arriving yesterday (in order):

- I got creamed chipped beef and tater tots for breakfast.

- I read on the deck.

- I got a cheesesteak for dinner.

- I stayed up until 5:30am and drank almost a half a case of Guinness.

- I had a sex dream in which Sarah Palin and I were at a Carvel or Baskin Robbins getting ice cream. I told her that she looked very sexy in her little skirt and that I wanted to lift it up and eff her right there, over the ice cream case. She started crying, saying that she hasn’t been talked to like that ever, and boy, when we got home, she was going to show me sumpin’ sumpin’.

(Sadly, the dream ended there. However, it’s probably for the best, as if it were to follow my non-dream life, ... read more

Think it might be pretty hard over these next couple of days to sit inside and type when, you know, this.

Big night for common sense, decency, humanity. Proud of the NY Senate – and keeping my summer open for gayweddingpalooza.

This is a public service announcement.

The 14th Annual “Drink Until You Shit!” pub crawl will take place in North Wildwood, NJ on Saturday, August 13. I’m assuming that we will start once again at 3pm at Casey’s on 3rd and New York Avenues, but that’s not 100% (but let’s put it at about 95%, ok?).

If you’re in the area with nothing to do, come on out! This will be the first pub crawl for my nephew Liam, so that’s pretty exciting. And as always, there will be a lot of boozing, along with the shenanigans, over-eating and make-outs that go hand in hand with and all-day pub crawl that features 100+ people.

(And I don’t want to tease you, but the shirts may be the best ever. Once they’ve been ordered, I’ll put up a design. Wowza.)
Anyway, hope you all can make it. Yes, all of you.