Category: thequotidien
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NYC 20
It’s only August and I’m on my 20th flight to NYC. The transition to “New York speed” now happens between the gate and the Uber. I’m recognized at the front desk of my super-dope LES hotel. I’ve made the required reparations for my locals who were a little bent when they found out I’d been […]
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Hero Summer
School’s out and the fun has begun. I like to make sure we are deliberate about our summer fun, so I like to make a big target list for joy. This year I’ve organized it around Ninja Skills. I’m not sure this is ever coming off the wall.
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The Meaning of Scouts
I think I’ve been watching too much The Newsroom. We recently had a promotion ceremony and The Fellas advanced to their next Scouting rank. As part of the event, they asked Dads who had been Scouts to talk a little about their scouting experience in their youth. Their hustling me to get involved on the […]
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50 for 50
I’ve been great friends with Michael Hubly since 1994 when on a last minute dash I went with a co-worker I barely knew to five transformative days at Club Med. Eventually I would become his Best Man and Hunter would take his Michael for his middle name. Hubs turned Fifty (pronounced “Hyuebs”) and is committed […]
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Dan Smith Guitar
My first guitar lessons came from an interesting New York creature named Dan Smith. He was giving lessons on the down-low in his apartment, so you couldn’t bring your own guitar and you weren’t supposed to hang around before/after your lesson. Dan was great. We learned by just playing songs and he navigated in-and-out of […]
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Wizardly
Me and The Fellas are working to make painting a habit. We had so much fun around the Opus Memoriae MMXVII that we decided that each month we were going to pick the “theme of the month” or some thing we really enjoyed and make a picture out of it. For January, I am the […]
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we are Star Fleet
Star Trek over Star Wars. There, I said it. The nerd debate is unresolvable. It’s science fiction versus science fantasy, it’s space wagon train versus space opera. They are both magnificent, but I want to live in the universe of Star Trek. I cast a disapproving eye on any dude of my generation that I […]
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an unexpected welcome
Got back tonight from my 6th trip to NYC since Thanksgiving…and…my battery was dead at the airport parking. I had done a pre-dawn drop-off of The Fellas and The Elder is cranking through Harry Potter, he turned on the light, and left it on in the back seat. It seems 5 days is enough to […]
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Movie: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The short: Frances McDormand has you rooting for an incredibly unsympathetic character and a character evolution you might predict as unbelievable gets pulled off. Watching this is time well spent. There was a time in the ’90s when I would easily see 80+ movies a year. Now my number is smaller and is dominated by […]
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love quotes
It’s just about cupid day, and so the obligatory articles on modern romance, the joy of solitude and how marriage makes dudes live longer have already begun to surface. Despite my cynicism, The Guardian had four perspectives on modern love with a couple of nuggets spread across them. The best of them from the Modern […]