Author: sjwillis

Red Bank Dublin House WiFi. Fail. Red Bank needs a bar with wireless internet access.* Last night my friend Hempstead and I had our online fantasy football draft. We figured we’d head downtown and find a bar with some wifi and drink…

Obama’s back-to-school address Personally, I’d like to have my kids hear this speech more than once. Taking responsibility for yourself, identifying and honing your talents, capitalizing on good fortune and acknowledging that…

Lunch. Crickets. Brought my lunch to a nearby park today. Beautiful outside. Wish I was out riding in the woods instead of working. Chilly, almost, at the picnic table under the shade of a sycamore tree. …

If America Were a Village of 100 people http://usat.me/?36139716 (via @mysocnet) -the economic inequality stats at the end are dumbfounding.

Star Ledger’s Munchmobile samples some Monmouth County Pizza. Misses a slew of them. http://www.nj.com/entertainment/dining/index.ssf/2009/09/best_pizza_in_monmouth_county.html I can only imagine that they’ll be back for a more complete “sampling” of MonCo’s pizza establishments. No…

Emerson. August, 1862 (might as well be talking about health care in ’09): I grieve to see that the Government is governed by the hurrahs of the soldiers or the citizens. It does not lead opinion, but follows it. – RWE …

Going to see It Might Get Loud. 10pm Red Bank. Sent from my iPhone. …

Road gigs, polo and Branford. A weekend update. [John gettin’ all revved up for some Polo.]My neighbor Brian, my brother John and I had a gig this past weekend at the Polo Grounds outside of Baltimore (near Bel Air). It was a benefit event for a…

So long #54. The NFL needs more guys like Tedy Bruschi. Kids need more players like him as role models. There are so many things to like about Tedy Bruschi. He stayed with Pats his entire career, played his ass off in every single game and was pretty much the exact opposite of most of…

After a cumulative 90 mins of band practice, we’re heading to Baltimore for a gig today.