This was the Facebook/email invite I made for the cocktail party Joey and I threw ten years ago for Mel Torme's 90th birthday. Today is his 100th! Happy Birthday, Mel Torme! That was a fun party.
It's my 47th birthday. As a Gen Xer with almost half a century of experience, I've come to some conclusions. Here are five things I'm pretty sure about. 1.Guitar Comedy
Hey Demitri, Birbigs, that guy, and that other guy. You know who you are. So, I've given it literally dozens of chances, but I'm afraid it's a no from me, dawg. I love you, but when you reach for that guitar, my brain goes, "Noooooooo!" You're…
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From: Michelle
Date: Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:47 PM
Subject: Birthday
To: Jenny
Today I got you a birthday card. In about 3.5 weeks, I'll forget that I did that. I'll remember the day before your birthday, then I'll search frantically for the card, but won't find it in the "safekeeping" place where I cleverly hid it from myself. I'll find it sometime in December, at which point I'll …
Yesterday, your outpouring of well-wishes
for my 46th trip around the sun? Astonishing it is anew, how did I cross
paths with so many rare and wonderful people? Plus my husband Joe Kowalski ?
Honestly guys? That's why I'm making a video blog about him-- because
he's somethin' else, man, and I have the best seat in the house and I
just wanna share that with you. Plus family, which I'm more grateful for
as the years go by …
That was a fun party.
We'd intended to prepare only legit retro party food, but we chickened out once we looked into it. As it happens, party food was gag-inducingly loathesome in the 60s and 70s. Pimento olives made far too much of a showing. Entirely too much ham and gelatin was involved, shaped into something truly diabolical. Everything was formed into a mold or a loaf of some kind.
Friends don't serve friends "molds."
As …
...sorry, they're out. I bought it all.
Just returned from a shopping trip with a metric ton of various cheeses for Joe's locally famous Fondue-bee-doo-bee-doo.
My birthday post last week ( 45 Things I Know ) reminded me of something cool. Last September I hosted a one-day group project on Facebook in which I invited my friends (mostly Gen X) to participate in compiling A Compendium of Good Advice. Something like a Gen X edition of The Desiderata. It came out pretty good. People should listen to us. We've seen some shit. Control your mouth. We live in a society here. Before you gossip, think. Think of …
1. Don't pry open anything with your teeth. 2. Support NPR, independent musicians and public television. 3. Don't skimp on three things in life: your mattress, your shoes, and your food. In these areas, buy quality, however else you might economize. 4. Never work for an asshole. If you work for an asshole now, quit. 5. Every now and then, quiz yourself on the state and country capitals from 7th grade geography. There are apps for that now. 6.…
Joe has something of an infatuation with the late great Mel Torme, who would have been 90 this September. We've been talking about having a birthday party for the Velvet Fog, with music, drinks and dishes from the crooner's heyday. "We'll definitely make up a few pitchers of a Velvet Fog drink...oooh, maybe a punch bowl to fit the era!" You guys, I've been looking for an excuse to get a punch bowl for a long time. My j…
Great party.
My face hurts from smiling. 💕
Thanks for coming over, everyone.
Those of you we didn't see, you were missed.
Next time.
We will have more.
God willing and the creek don't rise.
Oblix Plans to Open in the Former Strega Italiano/Strip by Strega Space in
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It looks like an upscale restaurant in London is going to be expanding to
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