Archive for August, 2011

Carly & Me

Posted: August 28, 2011 in Friends, Is this thing on?, music

I have a confession to make. I am the man Carly Simon is singing about in “You’re So Vain.” To be fair, I never did think that song was about me. It wasn’t until a few years ago, I was, for no apparent reason, perusing my scarf collection with a friend when she pointed to [...]

No lead in my pencil

Posted: August 24, 2011 in Uncategorized

In an attempt to bitchslap myself back to life, literarily speaking, I’m going to lay bare my insecurities and deficiencies as a writer. At this moment I am experiencing what we in the writing biz call “writer’s block.” It’s like performance anxiety, only there’s no woman sitting next to you telling you that “it happens [...]