For many years afterward I’d approach this date with deep, dark trepidation, convinced that some sort of disaster was certain to befall me. The one time, though, that an actual disaster happened, I never saw it coming.

by conventional standards, we are broke, or very nearly so. But thanks for noticing now, Republicans; a shame it escaped your notice when you — that’s right, you — were busily bankrupting us.

It’s been a couple days now and I’m still buzzing from the two Green Day shows earlier this week [July 27 and 28]. I feel more like a teenager than I did when I actually was one. Back in May I said that Green Day’s Webster Hall show was possibly the best I’d ever seen, [...]