Lemoine Ave. Fort Lee

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Skynyrd Sunday

Hanging out poolside, wearing my Skynyrd bathing suit, cranking Skynyrd & just cracked open a Budweiser. America rules. USA! USA! USA!

SAS Baby!

Di, Mackenzie & Kevin

Bye-Bye Birdie Director

at dinner on the first night of the new Aureole.

The Wyfe Plays The Henry Miller Theatre

Henry Miller Theatre

SS Surrender the Booty

Just awesome... TJ sent me a note saying he needed another of my "Surrender the Booty" Jazz Fest business cards, which depict our Jazz Fest flag & my contact details with my title "Swashbuckler." As TJ wrote:

OK Guzilla...

I'm going to need another Surrender the Booty business card.

My little brother has a school project tomorrow... needed to build a styrofoam sailboat for a race in science class. I added a nice little (and inappropriate for 3rd grade) touch. For aesthetics, keeping er' straight, and general debauchery of a minor.

Well done... Teach the children well.

Another Swashbuckler

and on the back of his flag, this young genius refers to himself also as a "Swashbuckler."

Well done, and smooth sailing... RAMMING SPEED!

Meats Cheeses & Fruit Plate Dinner!

West Side Highway Caddy

with Kenny Loggins' "This Is It" (1979) playing - a nice New York moment.

Hitchhicking

The Wyfe picked me up. In these tough economic times, I am all about free transportation. Party bus...

Party Bus ride home!

Ben Jones Bachelor Party

Retzler, Schroth, Zottola... Good afternoon times with guys I see far too rarely. Or just enough. Mayhem. Thankfully they're leaving fot the Mets game.

Brother Joscephus & the Love Revolution Orchestra

"A 12-piece feel good explosion of Love, Righteousness & New Orleans Soul."

Maru the Cat

saw this in the current issue of Wired magazine. as they correctly point out, the internet is filled with cat videos. "But this is a Japanese cat video."

One for the Spotted Cat

According to a NY Times.com blog entry today, one of our favorite New Orleans bars is no longer... A tragedy as the Spotted Cat played host to some of our favorite moments ("I _____ love you guys! No, it's true! I _____ love them and I should tell them!" my monkey yelled at the New Orleans Jazz Vipers and then at the entire crowd, instantly winning the entire room over... After a few purple voodoos at Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. Gano emotionally enjoying his request of the Vipers to play "Sleepytime Down South.")

We have seen the Vipers countless times, saw Glen David Andrews join them for one of my all-time favorite versions of St. James Infirmary ("When I die, put my cell phone on vibrate... So my ex-wife thinks I'm still alive.") and even danced alongside Laurence Fishburne there this year.

One for the Spotted Cat...

Fajita Night!

Texas Smurfs

While The Wyfe & I had a low-key weekend of poolside (rainy) lounging, my brother & his friend ran a costume offroad race dressed as Smurfs. Awesome.

Sushi Al Fresco

dinner on our roof

Needham Digital Media Conference

2nd Ave Street Fair

RIP - Koko Taylor

Inspiring

Ellen DeGeneres speaks to the graduating "Katrina class" at Tulane University.  Well done...

Colbert to Serve As Guest Editor of Newsweek

Comedic hero Stephen Colbert will be the first guest editor in the magazine's 76 year history.  Issue on shelves June 8th!

And here is an excerpt from a commencement speech he just made:

Stephen Colbert, comedian, Medical University of South Carolina: "Traditionally, commencement speakers dole out advice on life and careers to students. But I've made my career as an aggressively ignorant blowhard with a dismissive attitude toward knowledge in general and to science in particular. So, clearly I have no business in giving you any advice. ... Whenever I honestly, sincerely give young people advice ... the most common thing I say is go make mistakes. The best thing I ever did was to give myself permission to be wrong. I can't really give you that advice. It's irresponsible for me to tell graduates of a medical college to go out and make as many mistakes as you can."

'Whale Meat' Truck'