Sugar Water: Print, Profits, and “The Paper”
On November 5, the morning after Senator Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America, Oprah Winfrey appeared on her talk show with an American...
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Sugar Water: The Other Side of the Coin
It’s not easy being popular. I should know — some popular people told me. I could’ve asked them why it’s not easy, but I was a freshman at the time,...
Sugar Water: I Coulda Been a Contender …
My girlfriend, Aimiee, and I finally returned from China on August 24. It was a few days earlier than we expected, thanks to a summer wind that came blowing in...
Sugar Water: Celebrity Soapbox!
Bad news — my girlfriend, Aimiee, and I are still on that steamship we boarded in China two weeks ago. You know the phrase “slow boat to China”? Well, it...
Sugar Water: For Those Who’ve Been Living Under Chinese Rocks
Aloha from China! I am so close to being excited about covering the 2008 Summer Olympics for Popdose. Close but not quite there yet because (1) I have trouble showing...
Sugar Water: Procrastination — Now, Later, Always, Forever
I don’t mean to brag or nothin’, but when it comes to procrastinating, I’m something of an expert. If there had been a contest last year to determine the world’s...
Sugar Water: Harrison Ford
If you were to ask me what I wanted to be when I was growing up, I could lie and say “astronaut” or “baseball player” or even “actor,” but the...
Sugar Water: Soft, Smooth, and Silver
Did everyone have a rockin’ Fourth of July? (Please answer with an affirmative “Woooooo!”) And are you still rockin’ at the tail end of this three-day weekend? (Please answer with...
Sugar Water: What Goes Around Comes Around (and Sometimes Even Reaches Around)
Chicago celebrated gay pride over the weekend with a parade, a “queer prom,” and enough inordinate self-esteem and alternative lifestyles to choke a Clydesdale. You go, gay people! I absolutely...
Sugar Water: Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)
“If I had to label myself in some way, I would describe myself as a kind of traditionalist, I suppose, in terms of cinema. Clearly, I’m a victim of the...
Sugar Water: Soft Rock Isn’t Necessarily Safe Rock
Soft rock. For many people it’s a mellow, relaxing subgenre of pop music. But could it be harmful to your health? Morgan Fairlock has the story … [kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/FsoDEfmNTv8" width="600"...
Sugar Water: The “Iron Man” Singers and Their Songs
I saw Iron Man this morning. It was the first time I’d paid to see a movie at a multiplex in almost eight months. Maybe I should’ve gone to church...
Sugar Water: Sorry Seems to Be the Easiest Word Once You’ve Run Out of All Other Options
On May 1, Representative Vito Fossella (R-NY) was arrested for drunk driving in Alexandria, Virginia, after running a red light, and was released into the custody of a former Air...
Sugar Water: How I Messed Up Everything for Everybody
Late last week it was reported that pop diva Mariah Carey had married actor Nick Cannon in a secret ceremony. Naturally, my first thought was that her new album, E=MC²,...
Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Believe I’m Talking About Wesley Snipes Again
Last Thursday actor Wesley Snipes (U.S. Marshals, Undisputed) was sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty in February of three misdemeanor counts for willfully failing to file...
Sugar Water: Robert’s Rules of Order
I didn’t mean to take a three-week vacation from writing Sugar Water, but here I am with my first post for the month of April, which is already on its...
Sugar Water: The Original Crime Scene Investigator
Last week I discovered that David Caruso has more fans than I could’ve ever imagined. To borrow a phrase from a recent episode of his hit show, CSI: Miami, he’s...
Sugar Water: The Second Coming … of David Caruso
CSI: Miami, now in its sixth season, returns with a new episode Monday night, the first one completed since the writers’ strike ended in February. CBS’s top-rated crime drama is...
Sugar Water: Seeing Red About Seeing Stars
I’m a day late with this week’s post, but I’m not going to apologize. Apologies are for suckers. And one of those suckers is Maxim editorial director James Kaminsky. He...
Sugar Water: Jarreau!
The title of Al Jarreau’s sixth studio album, released in 1983, is simple and straightforward: Jarreau. But if you ask me, it’s missing an exclamation point at the end —...
Sugar Water: Super Cyborg Sunday
I’ll get to the cyborgs in a second, but before I do, I need to mention one last thing in regard to Wesley Snipes — in my three February posts...
Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Write About Al Jarreau Yet
Last Sunday I said I would find time to write about Al Jarreau in the coming week, but a few days ago Jeff Giles told me to put my ode...
Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Meet Deadlines
Were you anxiously awaiting the conclusion of my Wesley Snipes two-parter on Tuesday? Did you have to take anti-anxiety medication when it didn’t appear? It’s not my fault you’re a...
Sugar Water: White Men Can’t Convict
January 12, as I’m sure you remember, was my lawyer/friend Dave-o’s birthday, and in case you’re wondering, I didn’t end up getting him a leather attaché case. What if it...
Sugar Water: January’s Almost Over
If you were born in January or you fell in love in January or you got married in January or you have a child who was born or fell in...
Sugar Water: Testify! (Before Congress)
As you know, these are trying times, filled with economic uncertainty, terrorist threats, military aggression, global warming, and even a few presidential candidates who aren’t white guys. In times like...
Sugar Water: Parade (Of Lies!)
I should start subscribing to the newspaper again on Sundays. Not for the news, of course. Please. No, the only part of the paper I’m interested in is Parade magazine,...
Sugar Water: The Adventure Continues …
Sequels aren’t always good, but the movie-loving teenager who continues to take up space inside my soul will always be excited by them, especially the mere concept of sequels, i.e....
Sugar Water: I Believe the Children Are Our Inarticulate Future
I’m a little angry today. I wish I wasn’t. After all, it’s a new year. A chance to put aside the previous year’s disappointments, setbacks, frustrating failures, endlessly escalating arguments,...