Some Things That Never Fail To Make Me Smile...

Watching Strangers With Candy...Completing a Times crossword puzzle...Thinking of my nephew Cody's excuse for falling out of bed around age five ("The window was open and the wind blew me off the bed")....Saying "Ladies and gentlemen" in the style of a drunken Kiki DuRane...When suburban white kids use black slang...the distinctive sound of my friend Natalie's laugh...Mikey Semrad's channelling of Cobra-era Sylvester Stallone.