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Learning To Walk Again
Maggie took her first, tentative steps last week, slowly, deliberately and clumsily wobbling across the bedroom from her startled mother to her amazed father. She waved like a homecoming queen to...
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The Cruelty Of The Curbside Cab Line
Few things bring out New Yorkers’ lesser selves than the Penn Station taxi line during an Easter downpour. It’s also one of just a few scenarios capable of adding insult the injury of a late train and...
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Tuesday In The Park With Maggie
It was a cinematic, spring afternoon. The sky was unwaveringly blue, shot through with bleached-lemon sunlight, all framed by the piercing, green canopy of a long-slumbering Central Park. A cool...
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Rachel Platten’s 53 Steps Into The Great Unknown
Most major music careers begin on modest stages. Springsteen cut his teeth at Asbury Park’s Stone Pony. Elton John made his stateside splash at LA’s Troubadour. And Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta...
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Baby Brain
I’m 38,000 feet over Albuquerque, New Mexico, when the newborn in 8B begins crying. I can hear it all — including the woman behind me whining and sighing to her husband — despite my noise canceling...
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Sunny On These Days
Tonight’s my first rock show in more than a year, and I’m a little bit freaked. Other than “A Holiday Benefit, Vol. IV” in December (where I performed two Christmas standards), and the “Forever Young”...
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Funland
Twenty-two years ago this weekend, I left Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, with two grand in my pocket, a hot bike lashed to my VW Rabbit, and a tiny bit of blow in my nose. Back then, we mocked the families...
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R.E.M.: Life And How To Live It
I’m pretty sure I’d never seen a man wearing eyeliner, let alone one stabbing, sweating and strutting his way shirtless across a stage back lit by 16mm film of fish swimming in slow-motion. I was in...
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Casey Shea’s New LP Gets “In Your Head”
I’ve followed my pal Casey Shea every step of the way. From his early NYC days straight off the express bus from Music City, to his oversized, undefeated Undisputed Heavyweights shows, to his...
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Top Ten Songs Of 2011
I have this Sam Brown (aka Exploding Dog) signed and framed print in my office directly in front of my desk. It’s called “I Love This Music.” I look at it all day long. I still love this music, though...
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The Promise Of “Great Lakes”
“Great Lakes” is an album haunted by water: water that drowns (“Oceans of Doubt”) and destroys (“Brand New Oblivion”), protects (“Bigger Than The Moon”) and purifies (“Great Lakes”). It’s an album...
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That Time The DJ Compared Me To Kanye
While it’s true that Cumulus Radio’s headquarters are thirty floors above the fabled Madison Square Garden, the radio powerhouse’s offices are still nondescript on a good day, and wholly beige the...
View ArticleKoyaanisqatsi
Two weeks ago Friday morning, Abbi, Maggie, Elsie and belted in for what would be our family’s first foray outside of a three-mile radius in a year, and our longest road trip ever: 675 miles on...
View ArticleInside BWD HQ
When I was in seventh grade, I fashioned a desk from a cardboard box, placed an old, manual typewriter and coffee mug full of #2 pencils on top, and sat in the corner of the basement playing cub...
View ArticleA Tiny Act Of Corporate Rebellion
These days, corporate laptops come pre-loaded with desktop images and screen savers rife with slogans, logos, and acronyms: Googlicious, Six Sigma, stuff like that. Years ago, as I broadened my...
View ArticleThe Badge Post
Friday will be my last day at Facebook. I began working for the News Partnerships Team there on October 27, 2014, following an 18 year stint at MTV News. I joined the company for its culture: open,...
View Article“Friends & Neighbors” Season Two Trailer
Twenty years ago, I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon with America’s Favorite Neighbor, Fred Rogers. That day, Mister Rogers said something that changed my life: “Deep and simple is far more...
View ArticleNegin Farsad: The Best Medicine
I first met Negin Farsad in the MTV Newsroom thirteen or so years ago. Negin was a writer on a wacky show called “Daily Detox” which, as I recall, was a bizarre daily news recap with a very healthy...
View ArticleThe Belly Of An Insect
We are a Microwave Culture. We track time by weekends, holidays and life events. We love The Quick Fix, The Cliff Note, The New York Minute. We want immediate gratification, rapid appreciation, and...
View ArticleKara Golden: Connecting The Dots
Were it not for Hint CEO, Kara Goldin, I might not be here today. The year was 2013. And work was beginning to smell weird. I’d helped transform MTV News from a revenue-neutral, broadcaster to a...
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