Archive for September, 2009

The Emirates

30, Sep 2009

At the end of another tour of the offices out here. Four seminars in three days. I may be saying goodbye to Dubai this afternoon. I haven’t been in Dubai in nearly a year and our office is but a shell of what it was. Had dinner at Waxy O’Connor’s last night (great food!) and [...]

Non-sequitur

26, Sep 2009

Just read where some new dirtbag – who was a former contestant on some heinous reality show – killed his girlfriend in LA. One description of him is as follows: “R. was involved in ministry as a mime and did “some evangelistic types of entertainment,” Schoonmaker said. He did not know when or where R. [...]

Ikea

24, Sep 2009

I went home for four days and went to Ikea three times. Does that sound logical? Flew 6,000 miles – through a number of times zones – to make the half hour/forty minute each way drive down the Jersey Turnpike three times. And since it is right next to the airport, you can almost look [...]

Schiphol

18, Sep 2009

The flight home was on my dime, so we were flying economy. I got to Kuwait Airport about 3 hours early to be sure to get a parking spot (which were plentiful it turns out). However, it took me at least an hour to get through the lines at security. The airport was packed with [...]

Fly Me

16, Sep 2009

I believe Brian Eno had an album called Here Come The Warm Jets. His original title was “Here Comes Some Bad Jetlag”. See? Not nearly as catchy. Two days for the Eid, two days for the weekend and two days vacation is just enough time to wrangle a flight back to New Jersey. And two [...]

Thursday, Part 2

11, Sep 2009

Let’s stroll through the Q tonight, shall we? First off- Kuwait stinks. I don’t mean metaphorically. Literally. Stinks. A large portion of Kuwait proper is on the Persian Gulf (including shops, restaurants and where I work). And when the tide is out, the smell is akin to swamp gas mixed with burning oil products… only [...]

Thursday

10, Sep 2009

I’m going out to dinner tonight. But where? Chilis? Ruby Tuesday’s? Applebees? who knows? The choices are… pathetic. And the thing is – I’m in the mood for crap food. It’s a TGI Friday’s kind of night. But – without beer? I don’t think I can do it. Some food only tastes good when the [...]

A Working Actor

2, Sep 2009

There was another actor in my family. A real actor – a professional. His name was Wayne Tippit and he was my mother’s cousin’s husband (right?). Wayne passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 77. Wayne was always a sort of touchstone for me – being an aspiring actor myself. Here [...]


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