Obama is the Cool
President Barack Obama fist-bumps custodian Lawrence Lipscomb in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building following the opening session of the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth, Dec. 3, 2009.
Trying to Cook
My girlfriend started going to school so I’ve tried to start cooking. Here’s some chicken and broccoli that I started heating up. Also drinking a Sapporo, out of view.
Just using a can of Bertolli alfredo sauce…maybe I’ll create my own sauce down the line.
Ricky Nelson – Lonesome Town
Ricky Nelson singing Lonesome Town on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1958.
A Who’s Who of Build Guild
On the second Tuesday of every month, there is a web meet-up called Build Guild that occurs in Salem, MA. Last night I attended for the first time in a while with my co-worker Tracey. Since I’ve been to more dates than Tracey, I found myself trying to tell her what everyone is involved with as we were leaving. I wasn’t nearly getting to everyone, so here is a blog post dedicated to the names and projects of Build Guild attendees.
If I missed anyone, leave a comment with your name and link and I will add you.
- Andrew Choy
- Angelo Simeoni
- Art Lawry
- Brian Thopsey
- Brian Wilkins
- Bruce Spang
- Chris Traganos
- Dan Perrera
- Forrest Frazier
- Fred Leblanc
- Jason Robb
- Jeff Turcotte
- Jen Strickland
- Jeremy Krantz
- Jim Kelly
- Joel Oliveira
- Joey Brunelle
- Johannes, Booyant
- Kevin Grocki
- Kirby Turner, White Peak Software
- Kyle Fielder, Atedrake
- Kyle Ridolfo
- Leanne Lawry
- Marc Amos (founder), Boston Web Studio
- Mark Reeves, Slim Kiwi
- Michael Bester
- Mike Kivikoski, Atedrake
- Mike Susz, Square Design
- Mike Witwicki, Booyant
- Niki Brown
- Patrick Haney
- Paul Kelley
- Pete Karl
- Peter Wood
- Rob Day
- Ruthie BenDor
- Ryan Westphal
- TJ Kelly
- Tom Clancy
- Tom Dennesen
- Tracey Greene
- Victoria Fiorini
- Wesley Miles
Tracy Morgan on NPR Fresh Air
I’m a huge Tracey Morgan fan. Like most people who are familiar with Tracy Morgan, I think of his run on TV shows Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock and his various YouTube clips acting out, making the interview job painful. But there’s one interview (I’ve read and heard nearly all of them) that really captures the pain and struggle of his formative years in Brooklyn, NY. It’s an NPR Fresh Air interview promoting his memoir I Am the New Black. During the 40 minute interview, we learn about Tracy’s time as a crack-dealer, his father’s death of AIDS, and how he ran away from his mother. The interview was so emotionally powerful that Terry Gross named it her 2009 interview of the year.
Without a doubt, the saddest part is around 13:00, hearing Tracy weep as he described returning home to take his siblings away from his mother:
“…that was the hardest day of my life, and I heard my mother cry…and it just broke me down…and I think about it now…I never meant to hurt my mother.”