I’m ill today. It started on Thanksgiving with the tell-tale sign that my normal once-in-a-blue-moon cough was occurring with greater frequency. My voice started getting raspy on Friday. My nap Friday night prior to a visit to Number’s Night Club was not a good one. I tried to make the best of the eveningn while […]

Let me quickly say that the last entry I posted was done immediately after I walked home from the Manson show. I was pissed in the British sense, not the American sense. Belgian Monk and Pabst Blue Ribbon are to blame. I know what you’re saying. ”No, Mark, Sue’s to blame.” [Sigh]. If you don’t […]

I just got back from the Marilyn Manson show at The Electric Factory. It was only a few blocks away from my apartment which is such a bonus. I’ve never been there before but the place has a circus tent type atmosphere, only with a lot of bars and waitresses — which I assume do […]

I can’t believe it! I’m finally back in touch with Richard David Noble. You may have read my blog once in a while where I lament my inability to track down one of my greatest friends from high school. Well, that’s all over. Richard’s parents apparently found my web site somehow, so they put him […]

Go here and click the gallery link. It’s right on the money. And now, here are a few interim links to episodes 2 and 3 of my beloved sci-fi comedy spoof show from 1978 that nobody ever saw — Quark. More are coming. quark_richard.benjamin.e2.may.the.source.be.with.you.wmv 509MB (WindowsMedia) quark_richard.benjamin.e3.the.old.and.the.beautiful.wmv 266MB (WindowsMedia)

My time at the client I’ve been working for since June 2001 is finally drawing to an end. I’m in the middle of the delicate Knowledge Transfer Process™ whereby everything I’ve learned in 3 years is compressed into 5 weeks. I’m having fun with it this time around, and it’s a lot like being back […]

This morning I stopped at the Starbucks on 3rd and Arch to grab some coffee. When I walked out I was confronted with the Philadelphia DPS ticketing lady writing me up for parking in a spot that wasn’t a spot. I told her she was a real sweetheart and in reply she told me that […]

I went to bed last night after watching the latest Star Trek: Enterprise thinking I’d wake up in the morning and get a present like it was Christmas morning. I was quite surprised to find a lump of coal in my stocking, instead. I’m not sure why I thought Kerry had this whole thing sewn […]