Owning a house is painful around the holidays. Why? The decorating? No? The depressingly happy couples smacking their faces together at the mall? No. So, why? The taxes. They are brutal. Trying not to think about them. Betting that my taxes are pretty light compared to what other people are paying. Here’s the damage for […]

Went to Nocturne night club this past Wedneday. Convinced friends from work that they should attend. Several Long Island ice teas later, good times were had by all. Saw Amy (a.k.a. BioMechanic) and boyfriend Teejay. Teejay was wearing a black shirt with several yellow spikes on the shoulders. Wondering what the reaction would be at […]

Copied Beth Trip and Prague Trip unedited footage onto laptop today. Forgot that Beth Trip videotape was originally used for recording salacious Showtime After Dark programming. Didn’t erase the whole thing, apparently. Didn’t know this until I used Windows MovieMaker to make clips. MovieMaker puts up the very last clip imports on your editing window. […]

Returning to short curt sentences I used when starting journal. Briefly. Hard to write this way. Sitting in Cafe Olay drinking coffee and eating egg and cheese on whole wheat bagel. Yum. Free wireless here. Feeling guilty that I don’t visit Starbucks more often. Paying for Starbucks t-mobile wireless, but no egg and cheese on […]

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)