I wake up around 9 am on a Wednesday in early May, and I’m feeling very rested. I’ve taken a few days off from writing, and from my website, genxchronicle.com. I also haven’t done Copper’s Corner in about a week. So it’s been nice. … Continue Reading
It’s 2:45 a.m. on a Friday in early April, and I’ve been relaxing and trying to unwind for a while now. I woke up late after staying up most of the night working, and then my friend Mitch came over to hang out in the evening.… Continue Reading
It’s been just about exactly two years since Prince died and the music world lost a legend. In recent weeks Prince’s estate has released some of his previously unreleased work. Thus includes his original version of Nothing Compares To You, which was taped at a studio in Eden Prairie, Minnesota in 1984 for The Family, his side project band at the time.… Continue Reading
As a Jewish New Yorker, I was looking forward to watching Josh Rosen play quarterback on Sundays for one of my hometown teams. But my favorite team, the NY Giants, and the other NY team, the Jets, both passed on him in Thursday’s NFL draft.… Continue Reading
Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about the future direction of my website, genxchronicle.com. We cover news, culture, and lifestyle through a Generation X lens, and we tell the stories that matter. I’ve been thinking in particular of how to take it to the next level.… Continue Reading
I wake up late on Friday morning, March 30th, my mother’s birthday. We’re going out tonight to a great Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side to celebrate. It’ll be me, my mom and my older brother Dave. I’m looking forward to it.… Continue Reading
On Sunday night I was feeling pretty good when I talked to my mom around 9:30, and she told me the James Comey interview was on ABC at 10pm. So I watched it, and here’s my take.
Comey came across as very charismatic, dynamic, sharp, intelligent, self-aware, socially progressive, and virtually morally infallible.… Continue Reading
It’s 9:45 p.m. on a Monday night in March. I just watched a really good Knicks game, where Trey Burke, the Knicks’ 6’1” point guard, had a career-high 42 points. The Knicks ended up losing to the Charlotte Hornets, because Kemba Walker was incredible and hit a bunch of shots down the stretch.… Continue Reading
It’s 10:10 a.m. on Saturday morning. I’ve been up all night working and then chilling out. I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and I took a lot of photos of European paintings, as well as the captions, and I turned it into a story for genxchronicle.com.… Continue Reading
It’s 1:00 am on Easter Sunday night. I celebrated Passover last night, so today is a free day for me. I wake up late because I was up most of the night editing a story for Copper’s Corner, my children’s book series about life with my shy yet warming up cat Copper.… Continue Reading