Paul O'Connor

Paley at Yankee Stadium

This is my good friend, and all around geek/genius, Ryan Paley giving me the stink eye at Yankee Stadium. Maybe he would smile if the Yankees won a few of the games in our season ticket plan. We payed a fortune to see Joba Chamberlain, Phil Hughes, and Chien-Ming Wang pitch and instead we get Sidney Ponson and Darrell Rasner. The only time I saw Paley smile during a game this year was when an entire family of obese people nearly fell down the stairs in unison. Read More...

You Stole My Bag

You know who you are. You swiped my bag from one of the baseball diamonds on the Great Lawn. You moved past the bags with iPhones and wallets in them and chose mine, which had a pair of shorts and a polo shirt in it. I hope you enjoyed the outfit and the loose change you got away with. I simply used my iPhone (which you didn't get) to find a store to buy new clothes with my credit card (which was in the wallet you didn't get) and enjoyed a late-night viewing of Wall-E (which you don't deserve to see). Read More...

King Tut

I don't know why I made a King Tut vector. I like ancient history. I love the Egyptian Art wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. My roommate is an Arab (although he tells me ancient Egyptians weren't). Read More...

Petty At The Garden

I was fortunate enough to see Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers perform at Madison Square Garden the other night. I own every Tom Petty album ever recorded, but this was my first time seeing him live. I had heard that he was one of the best live performers in the AARP club… and he didn't let me down. Aside from The Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, was there ever a better American group? Read More...

Dogs Rule

My crippling asthma and allergies have prevented me from owning a dog, which is tragic, since I like them more than I like humans. If you are one those people whose eyes well up after 5 minutes of Animal Cops, you will understand the sort of abuse thousands of these animals go through every day. Please donate to the ASPCA. I only wish I made more money so I could give more myself. Read More...

Opening Day

After months of waiting, baseball returns to replace my usual nightly programming with Michael Kay's enormous head. Always one of my favorite days of the year, this Opening Day will be a particularly bittersweet one in the Bronx. The Yankees are beginning their final season in The House That Ruth Built. I've spent more time in Yankee Stadium than I can calculate and many of my best memories took place there. Read More...