I just want to pay my bills, man.

"Would you like it neat or on the rocks," I asked the faux-blonde-headed woman next to her silent, excessively tan husband. The presumptive out-of-towner woman responded, "Big rock and an orange slice." As my dear friend and eccentric bar manager supervised, I poured up two separate shots of the most expensive tequila in our Latin-fusion … Continue reading I just want to pay my bills, man.

Van Halen’s Best Lead Singer

The perpetual longing for the "good times" may be the bitterest part of adulthood. For some, the pain of the "good times" is the grief of losing childlike simplicity and procrastinating the inevitable change that burns the skin to its finest leather. The moment you realize a beautiful epoch is gone, as they swiftly pass, … Continue reading Van Halen’s Best Lead Singer