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Just Like I Remembered It

31 Mar

After the Marta Kauffman event last night at Brandeis, I decided to swing by the office of the Justice to say hi to the staff, see what was up, and, well, loiter for a little bit.

It was a Monday night, which meant the folks were working hard to wrap things up so they could put the issue to bed and head out to decompress over pancakes and whatnot at IHOP.

(Or maybe that’s just something we did back in the day.)

To my surprise, the kids were welcoming and happy to have an alumnus in the office — a change from previous times I’d been there.

(Sigh. I really called them “kids,” didn’t I?) Continue reading →

The Year of Martin

31 Dec

I can’t believe 2008 is already over, mostly because when I look back on the year, I remember it as being as a great one in the life of Martin Lieberman.

Three big things happened: I bought a condo, my niece was born, and I got a new job. All three were huge, life-changing events.

I mean, my niece being born … yeah. But the condo purchase came after more than six years of living in the same place, and the new job came after more than seven years with the same company.

So I guess there’s very good reason for some of my friends to be calling 2008 “The Year of Martin.” Continue reading →

Give Me Some Leather

1 Sep

If the traditional third anniversary gift is leather, then what do you give someone for his third blogiversary?

I’ll let you worry about that.

Me, I’m going to give myself a big ole pat on the back. After all, when I posted my very first post way back on Sept. 1, 2005, I never once thought I’d have the discipline to keep this going a year — much less three.

I didn’t even know what I was going to write about. In that first post, I wrote: “Could be long, rambling entries like this one. Could be reviews of movies or TV shows, comments on albums I buy, rants about things and people I don’t like. Could be short, one-line entries, or they could just be a photo. Maybe I’ll need a gift idea and I’ll put that out to y’all for some suggestions. I don’t know.” I’d say I was pretty dead on about that mix, and the unpredictability of what topics I’d cover in the 990 some-odd posts I’ve written.

And so, here we are. I thank you for reading.

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And Tomorrow Ain’t As Bad As It Seems

17 May

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of “the good ole days.”

Was the time a few years ago (or whenever your “good ole days” were) really all that good, or was it just good compared to now?

Are things that bad now that we choose to look at the past in a more positive light? Or were we just to naive to realize how bad things were back then?

Do we consciously — or unconsciously — choose to look at the past through rose-colored glasses?

Or, is there just an inherent sense of nostalgia in all of us. Continue reading →

Under Pressure

24 Jun

One thing I’ve come to really like about traveling is that it gives me a couple hours to get deep into whatever book I’m reading.

(Yeah, look at me, turning into a regular bookworm.)

This weekend I flew to New York for my second cousin’s bris, and by the time I landed back in Boston Sunday night, I was more than halfway done with my new book, Cabin Pressure, by Josh Wolk. Continue reading →

What a Ride

14 Aug

Went home to New York this weekend for Mitzi and Jason’s aufruf, but that wasn’t the only excitement.

Saturday night, my friends Scott and David continued our end-of-summer tradition of going to Friday’s and Playland. Believe it or not, this was the 15th consecutive year we did this.

And who said I couldn’t stick with something that long? Continue reading →

At Least I Got an Umbrella

11 Jun

umbrellaI’m happy to report that my 10-year reunion has come and passed.

And while I only went to the barbecue on Saturday afternoon (which was moved indoors because of the weather), that was clearly enough. Continue reading →

Back in Time

5 Nov

I’m a bit surprised there hasn’t been more news coverage about today’s important anniversary. After all, it was 50 years ago (November 5, 1955) that Dr. Emmett Brown came up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor.

Story goes, Doctor Brown was standing on his toilet, hanging a clock, and he fell and hit his head on the sink. And that’s when he came up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor, which is, of course, what makes time travel possible.

Thanks to Doctor Brown’s important discovery, Marty McFly was able to go back in time, see his parents as high schoolers, and bring them closer together (after he almost made their entire relationship non-existent, of course).

I want you all to celebrate this special day with me, but since I can’t fit every one of my readers in a DeLorean, we’ll have to do it blog-style. Come back in time with me to September 1, 2005, the day of my very first posting on this site.

Now let’s all raise a Tab (“Tab? I can’t give you a tab unless you order something.”) or a Pepsi Free (“You want a Pepsi, pal, you’re gonna pay for it.”) to Doctor Emmett Brown and his groundbreaking scientific discovery!

[For the record, VB on the Fox 25 morning news made a big deal a couple weeks ago, on October 26, that that was the anniversary of Doctor Brown’s breakthrough. Well, he was wrong. See, it was on October 26, 1985 that Marty traveled back in time — to November 5. My assumption is that VB would like to go back in time to correct his mistake.]

I Just Want(ed) to Fly

3 Oct


October 3, 2005 is a pretty important day in my life.

For starters, it’s the beginning of Rosh Hashannah (it starts tonight at sundown).

It’s also the one-year anniversary of the day I threw myself out of a plane from 10,000 feet above the ground. Continue reading →

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