Sometime around the beginning of April, I received a message via Facebook from a Stanford film student named Alaa. In his email, Alaa explained that he had read the Almanac piece on me and was interested in making a documentary about my story. A few phone convos and face to face sit-downs later, my agent [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Making the Movie Part 1
Posted in Documentary on April 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Everything Old is New Again
Posted in Music, Treatments on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
When it comes to choosing my music for an acupuncture session, I take the job very seriously. The right choice can be positively inspirational (Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits or KFOG’s Live from the Archives) but the wrong CD selection spells absolute disaster (The Cult’s Electric). A good decision enhances a session whereas a bad [...]
The Mystery of Life
Posted in Ask the Audience on April 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday marked my triumphant return to the city of Sunnyvale. It had been about six months since I had shown my face around town and although my visit there was brief, it was not necessarily without incident.
We were killing time before a 4:20 PM (he he) showing of The Soloist and we decided to stop [...]
Living at the Movies Volume 2 Issue 1
Posted in Living at the Movies on April 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
One of the so-called perks of accepting nature’s early-age retirement package (aka ALS) is that I have a whole lot more free time than most people I know. So what’s a guy to do with his copious amount of spare time? Well, when I’m not offering up solutions to our nation’s economic woes with the [...]
The Best of Intentions
Posted in Life on April 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I apologize to you, loyal readers, for not posting any new material here these past few days. When I mentioned in a recent entry that I would be upping my output quota, I failed to take into consideration the effect that a common cold could have on said output. To borrow a phrase from the [...]
Long Story Short
Posted in Emergency Room on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The First Day of Spring Break 2009
I find myself perpetually fascinated by the decisions we make on a minute by minute basis and the ways in which those choices affect the outcome of our lives, at least in the short term. A vast majority of those decisions yield the desired, non-adverse result but every so [...]
Rants and Raves Revisited Volume 1 Issue 8
Posted in Rants and Raves on April 14, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Ch, Ch, Ch, Changes. If all goes according to Hoyle, you, loyal reader, will get at least four ALS Boy blog entries per week. Yes, you read that correctly: four new postings each week. In order to accomplish this goal, I am ceasing publication of my other two blogs (a big thank you to all [...]
Emma’s Smirking Revenge
Posted in Bad Behavior, Emma, Family Fun on April 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Hi Mama and Daddy-
Just in case you couldn’t tell who is typing this, it’s your daughter, Emma. If Daddy was careless enough to leave his laptop open on the table near my highchair, why shouldn’t I take advantage of the opportunity to set the record straight? As far as I’m concerned, the world needs to [...]
In Good Hands
Posted in Life on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You could say that I’ve had a pretty good week. It started with an off the hook party hosted by my family on Saturday afternoon. It continued with the publication of the awesome article in The Almanac on Tuesday. Wednesday was spent in celebration of the Birthday Twins’ big day: Number four oh for me [...]
Let Me Count the Ways
Posted in Emma on April 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Dear Emma,
Today is a very special day for you, my little Emmabug. Exactly one year ago today, you were born. Everyone was so happy that you were finally here, but I know for certain that I was the happiest of them all. You see, Emma, I was born on the same day as you were, [...]
