Saturday, July 05, 2008
Don't come around here no more
I am posting over at Tumblr and will not be posting here any longer. Blogger is quite nice but I like Tumblr through and through.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Where'd I go?
My web site is down for some reason -- I may have to renew it, I think. I've been blogging quite a bit over at Tumblr and I love it. Great for quick posts and uploading photos. Check it out here: http://philalbinus.tumblr.com
Care to see what a big tree can do to an old garage? Savor the carnage and marvel at the fact that I was five feet from this mess when it happened. Boy oh boy.
http://philalbinus.tumblr.com/page/2
Books reviews, movie reviews and more are on the way. Maybe even some video clips. Stay tuned. Over and out.
Care to see what a big tree can do to an old garage? Savor the carnage and marvel at the fact that I was five feet from this mess when it happened. Boy oh boy.
http://philalbinus.tumblr.com/page/2
Books reviews, movie reviews and more are on the way. Maybe even some video clips. Stay tuned. Over and out.
Friday, February 22, 2008
A Tale of Two Birthdays
Alan Cumming and I share the same birthday and we both turned 43 on Sunday. I don’t think, however, that we celebrated the same exact way. Take it away, Page Six:
ALAN CUMMING knows how to party. The Scottish actor got so crazy at the Le Royale lounge the other night, he jumped on the low-hanging disco ball in the middle of the room and swung on it until it ripped from the ceiling. “He fell on his face,” said our witness. After picking himself up, Cumming grabbed the ball and danced around the club clutching it — and when he finally put it down, he sprayed the other partygoers with a bottle of Cristal champagne.
--January 27th
ALAN CUMMING knows how to party. The Scottish actor got so crazy at the Le Royale lounge the other night, he jumped on the low-hanging disco ball in the middle of the room and swung on it until it ripped from the ceiling. “He fell on his face,” said our witness. After picking himself up, Cumming grabbed the ball and danced around the club clutching it — and when he finally put it down, he sprayed the other partygoers with a bottle of Cristal champagne.
--January 27th
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Happy New Year
Wow, it's New Year's Day 2008 and Regina and I made it to 9:30. Eat that, Williamsburg hipsters! Nora begged to stay up until midnight because she's at that perfect age when midnight seems magical on New Year's Eve. She now has bragging rights of staying awake on the last day of the year and she visited Disney's Magic Kingdom until 1 AM just a few days ago. She was exhausted and exhilerated at her late-night theme park jaunt. My daughter, the night owl.
This was a very good work year. A demanding publisher left to travel the world and I had one less source of stress in my life. I spent a year as special projects editor and kept truly busy on things that made money for the magazine. I am hoping that the news that there are no bonuses is exaggerated. The Waters brand made money, suits, so share the wealth. This isn't a charity. I have bills to pay, people! In brighter writing news, I also have a few ideas for books that I'd like to write and this might be the year of a Phil Albinus novel. Get to work, dude!
My family? The kids had a good, solid year. Nora is becoming a smart and lovely little lady before my eyes. There are moments when I can see the women she is going to become, a perfect copy of her mother. Matthew is learning more words and seems to be in the room a lot more. He is a wonder. Autism is emotionally and physically draining for family members but Matt provides such joy that he makes an often challenging life truly beautiful. Tim is a peach. He is speaking more and more and has the personality of a little devil. If he weren't so cute, Regina says, he'd be a bad headline. He makes me laugh more each and every day.
We had some wonderful trips this year. I hosted a breakfast briefing in Frankfurt. We bought a shiny new minivan. We got one more year out of my wife's Saturn as my station car but a new Toyota Corolla is beckoning. Rex the dog is the best couch potato on four legs. I read a million good books and listened to my new iPod Nano. Sea foam green -- you have a problem with that? My family is healthy and happy so life is very, very good indeed.
If this coming year is as good as the year that past, life will be quite nice. God bless us all.
This was a very good work year. A demanding publisher left to travel the world and I had one less source of stress in my life. I spent a year as special projects editor and kept truly busy on things that made money for the magazine. I am hoping that the news that there are no bonuses is exaggerated. The Waters brand made money, suits, so share the wealth. This isn't a charity. I have bills to pay, people! In brighter writing news, I also have a few ideas for books that I'd like to write and this might be the year of a Phil Albinus novel. Get to work, dude!
My family? The kids had a good, solid year. Nora is becoming a smart and lovely little lady before my eyes. There are moments when I can see the women she is going to become, a perfect copy of her mother. Matthew is learning more words and seems to be in the room a lot more. He is a wonder. Autism is emotionally and physically draining for family members but Matt provides such joy that he makes an often challenging life truly beautiful. Tim is a peach. He is speaking more and more and has the personality of a little devil. If he weren't so cute, Regina says, he'd be a bad headline. He makes me laugh more each and every day.
We had some wonderful trips this year. I hosted a breakfast briefing in Frankfurt. We bought a shiny new minivan. We got one more year out of my wife's Saturn as my station car but a new Toyota Corolla is beckoning. Rex the dog is the best couch potato on four legs. I read a million good books and listened to my new iPod Nano. Sea foam green -- you have a problem with that? My family is healthy and happy so life is very, very good indeed.
If this coming year is as good as the year that past, life will be quite nice. God bless us all.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Friday, December 28, 2007
The Florida Sun Times
We spent Christmas in Florida. Sun, hot temps, fun times and a pool in our backyard! Can we stay one more week, please?
Sunday, November 18, 2007
My video glory
What does a special projects editor do exactly? Glad you asked. Waters is starting a series of video roundtables, just like Slate, The New York Times and every other magazine or news source on the planet. Our inaugural effort was on complex event processing, a hot topic they tell me. All in all, not bad. And that moderator! Lock up your women folk. He on fire.
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