Dance your cares away. Worries for another day. Let the music play… Down in Fraggle Rock! If the theme song to Fraggle Rock is now stuck in your head for the rest of the day, well… you’re welcome. I remember watching the Fraggles on HBO with my sister when we were kids. There was Marjorie the trash heap. The adorable Play-Doh-bodied Doozers. Doc and Sprockets, the cutest dog puppet ever made. (Sorry, Triumph.) The fat, …
One of the neat things about social media is that it can connect you to people you’d otherwise never have a chance to talk to otherwise. I don’t just mean cool comic-loving bloggers who share your name like Drew Bennet. No, I mean folks like authors, press contacts, artists, musicians, even reps from your favorite companies. Being a professional writer, I’ve always had access to plenty of subjects when writing a story. And actually, that …
Facebook made a big announcement today. I thought maybe it’d be Facebook 3D, a huge social-themed amusement park or some really cool new feature like Smell-n-Share. But no, it wasn’t any of those. Actually, it was all about Instagram, not Facebook really. But since Facebook paid a billion dollars for Instagram last September, they get to hold press conferences and stuff. So what’d Instagram reveal? The fact that you can now share videos with your …
This past weekend, my always-smiling little niece Amanda had her Bat Mitzvah. While she’s the first neice of mine to have one so far, two of my nephews had one last year. Even so, this one made me feel a tad bit old. Maybe it’s because we’re almost at the halfway point of having all the kids reach their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. Heck, any day now we should be learning the date of Jason’s …
I always knew I wanted to be a father. As a kid, I shared the typical dream of one day having a loving wife, two great kids, a nice house and, of course, a rambunctious dog. Well, I got the kids, wife and house, but I’m still waiting on that dog. When Allie and I started trying to have a baby, I had no idea how long it would take. No one does, apparently. I …
