Category: bodega

My brother Peter, Director of Partnerships for Parks in New York, tells me this recent interview is available online in RealAudio format at this (admittedly sort of odd “good news” bad spelling) site. Hey, bragging rights is bragging rights! One for the Moo!

How’d you like to have me constantly over your shoulder observing everything you do, judging your performance (don’t drop that plate!), and then criticizing you in a kind of nonstop monotone? Yeah, I don’t blame you. I don’t like it myself.

Resolved, I will no longer say yes when I want to say no. I will no longer feel obligated when I am not. I will no longer be manipulated by the fear that someone will dislike me or say bad things about me into doing what I do not want to do. I guess it’s…

If I don’t answer the phone, if I don’t make time for small-talk, if I don’t return your e-mail, it’s nothing you did. I am under intense deadline pressures and need to work almost around-the-clock till Friday to make final milestones on my book. Even after that I will have a few more weeks with…

One problem with TMBG is that their songs are so goddamn catchy, to the nth degree, that I can’t get the frickin’ things out of my head for days. Have to change gears entirely. “And we almost figured out how to get along/and pretty soon you’ll/find that we can’t/be apart at/all//You just forgot your one…

Determined to make this final week of hard work go smoothly, trying to earn my planned time off and reinforce reasonable deadlines, I’ve already got a lot done today, though I still have a lot to do and it’s already two. My next task is to sort through all the likely content for the CD…