Are you ready for the Clinton Restoration? I am. I went down to my storage unit and got out a box labeled “1990s Memories” to get myself prepared for Back to the ’90s, and I found this list I wrote back then called “Self-Help Books Someone Should Write.” Remember self-help?
Remember the backlash against it? [...]

The debate always seems to rise again: Is Washington, D.C., in the South?
After the last couple Bible-belt-strangled presidential elections, which gave us Bush, I said, quote, “F**k the South” — therefore I don’t want D.C. to be in the South, because I live here now. It makes me look foolish. Did I get bamboozled? Let’s [...]

As another garbage year comes to a close, we traditionally gather with family and loved ones to count our blessings.
Okay, done.
Actually I had a very blest year and a nice holiday. I lost a few pounds, too, while I was home at the ancestral estate. My manorexia is out of control, which is a blessing.
During [...]

Guests: Writers Jim Gladstone and Scott Shrake. Topics: Washington DC, Dumplings, Hands Across America, Sufjan, Late to Facebook, Helvetica, e e cummings, Party Games. Playlist: Great Northern, Fishboy, Statehood, El Ten Eleven and Defiance, Ohio.
Preview: “I have a tone tube that once had me put behind metal bars.”
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You are a writer, actor, singer and comedian. Which one do you want to take all the way? Or do you want to keep them all rolled up in one?
I want to take everything all the way, or at least to sloppy third.
I briefly knew an amateur drag queen here in D.C. who has “Carol, [...]

Devil’s Night with a Fellow Detroiter
I can still see in my mind’s eye the exuberant gyrations of Motown’s “Little Stevie Wonder” in that old black-and-white footage with his sunglasses, short hair, jacket and bowtie, pegged pants, harmonica.
He’s not so little anymore. As my dad would say, he hasn’t missed a meal in a while. But [...]

My astrological sun sign is Scorpio, which starts today. I can already hear some of you groaning, “Oh, no, not the zodiac! Who believes in that hogwash?” Guess what? I don’t have any time for people who are not at least somewhat “available” to the occult. (By the way, the YMCA now offers a Necromancy [...]

I spent the weekend hanging around New York, waiting for my friend Gabriel Delahaye to take the stage at Rififi as co-host of Max Silvestri’s monthly comedy revue, “I Like Attention.” And waiting, and waiting. I accomplished two firsts: Had a bad meal in New York, and got bored in New York (Sunday afternoon, walking [...]

I see famous people. Since moving to Washington, D.C., in September 2006, I’ve been spotting them at the rate of about one per month on average. Oddly, they’ve all been men, with the possible exception of Greta Van Susteren. This tally does not count the numerous times I’ve seen the presidential and vice-presidential motorcades go [...]