Perfectly Tremendous Daze

July 9 has always been a day that’s locked into my memory because it is the birthday of my little sister Chrissy. Now that she is no longer with us, it has become more of a day of remembrance and reflection on the person that she was and her significance in my life, both before and after she passed. Today, Chrissy would have turned 49 years old, which makes me feel pretty old because I am the…

On my third day in Hawaii, I decided to visit a place my friend Rich had told me about. The Halona Blowhole was something I’d seen on travel sites during my research of things to do in Oahu, and Rich said it was worth the trip. So I jumped in the car and headed out, beach gear in hand, to check out the blowhole and Halona Beach Cove. The inlet is only a short, 20-minute ride from the center of…

Patchogue, NY It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon and I’m back here in Philly, sitting at the coffee shop for the first time in six days. It feels good to be back. The trip was a reminder that Philadelphia is and will continue to be my home for a long time to come, and my time back in Long Island last week was filled with some significant realzations about relationships I left behind. The experience…

I know it’s been a long time since I’ve mentioned anything school-related, but I’ve had a nice end to my first school year here in Philadelphia and I want to share… This is an image painted on the wall outside of my classroom. It was designed and painted by my former student, Tamara Vidal. The school I work in currently is quite different from the school I used to teach at in New York. When I…

Dear Diary, Are you f*&%ing kidding me? I made this video about two days after another pile of shit fell on me, when I finally developed the will to find himor in my situationa. All I can say is that I finally found something to take my mind off my unemployment problems and my back problems and my mourning problems, and it’s a doozy! On Saturday night, I went out for a couple of drinks with my…

I just happened to be talking about the movie, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, last night and I went to my Spotify and started listening. What a great movie, and the music of ABBA is absolutely perfect. Enjoy and Happy Friday!

Dear sense, where have you been?Show yourself, o-ohI took a chanceTo play and play youI played myselfI didn’t make you Here’s a flashback to 2018 and one of my favorite deejay/production groups, Louis the Child. This is one of those songs I loved from the very first time I heard it, and I still listen to it regularly because I like both the music and the lyrics. In fact, the whole premise of the…

Last night flaming hot singer RAYE performed at The Met here in Philadelphia, and I sadly missed it. I’ve been following this multi-talented singer, songwriter, and producer ever since I dove into her first album, Euphoric Sad Songs, back in 2020. I’m extremely happy, but not surprised, that she’s caught such fire here in the States because she is tht good! Boosted by her smash hit single, Where…

I love both The Knocks and Dragonette, and whenever they make music together it’s always pretty special. This one, from their collaborative 2025 album Revelation, is an easy breezy dance/pop/chill song that’s been on regular rotation in my listening for awhile now. Fun fact: the model in the video visualizer below is none other than RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 10 winner, Aquaria. Check out Love Me…

Darlene Mitchell, Myki Meeks and Nini Coco. Last night was the season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Season 18, and yes, we had a winner baby! Myki Meeks beat out fellow frontrunners Darlene Mitchell and Nini Coco to be crowned America’s Next Drag Superstar, Jane Don’t, my personal favorite, won Miss Congeniality, and pop singer Miley Cyrus was on hand to receive the Giving Us Lifetime…

Time goes by…so slowly… After this week’s announcement that Confessions on a Dance Floor II is officially on its way, I think it’s only appropriate to feature the lead single from Confessions I for today’s Flashback Friday. Hung Up was another one of those Madonna hits that was all over the place, and the clever use of ABBA’s Gimme Gimme Gimme made the song even more irresistable. So I invite…