There was a coffee house in Greenwich Village circa 1967 called Feejon. A group of Middle East descended musicians—Jerry Satpir, Elierzer Adoram and Kareem Issaq—used to get together and jam out there. They were so good they eventually became the house band. Semi-legendary producer Felix Pappalardi (Cream, later Mountain) discovered them and had them signed [...]

A couple months ago, at the S.I.N. in north Neukölln, I saw one of the funniest shows in my life courtesy of a motley, yes motley, crew of talented and twisted stand-up comedians and/or performance artists from nearly every part of the English-speaking world. There might have even been a Kiwi performing. I can’t remember. [...]

In May, Yuhang and I got married in China (almost a year after doing the same in Sweden). It was in every sense a production, one that took about two weeks of permanent habitation in the city of Daqing just to prepare for it. The day went well and was impressive enough for the attendees, [...]

I’ve been operating under the conceit for the last few weeks that I’ll just save up all those ideas for blogging that I never got around to and just file them in—at some day in the near future offering an unlimited stretch of free time, mental clarity and non-distracted motivation—chronologically as if they were blogged [...]