Me on a Diet

Ma Vie En Rose

April 27, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

Mon DIEU! Where the fuck have I been, you're most certainly asking yourself, right? What's happened to Me on a Diet? Where's Shaunie? France. Paris, France! Ah, the days spent strolling down the Champs Elysees, climbing the winding and endless steps of Notre Dame, and of course, boat rides on the Seine at dusk. Yes, we did Paris HARD and FAST, seeing everything we ever dreamed of. And we ate. We ate and ate and ate and ate and then we walked. We walked, and we walked and we walked...you get … [Continue reading]

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Everything’s Alright

April 5, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

Try not to get worried... I, much like you, have been rocking out HARD to my Jesus Christ Superstar album. No matter that this is on my iPhone, to me it will always be an album. I grew up shuckin’ and a jivin’ to What’s The Buzz, vamped to King Herod’s Song and went all high drama during Gethsemane. Sister Mary Neuralgia would drop the needle onto JCS, and we’d dance spastically like the Peanuts gang. It was our religion. Every Easter, I vow to watch the Ted Neely (who was in … [Continue reading]

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The Dolly Mamma

April 3, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

Question: How many Cracker Barrels does a man have to walk into before he learns that there is NOTHING INSIDE for him but isolation and despair? Answer: Apparently three. Three Cracker Barrels. See, there is a Cracker Barrel- that bastion of true Americana with which I am in tandem repelled by and strangely drawn to- at EVERY exit between Tampa and Buffalo, the All America City! As my dad and I drove from Jacksonville to Savannah to Charlotte to Pittsburgh to Erie, we stopped at said … [Continue reading]

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Magnificat

March 24, 2013 By Shaun 7 Comments

What does your soul magnify? I mean, what are you all about? Do you bring out the best in people and allow them to shine? To you facilitate magic in the seemingly ordinary? Today, I had the honor of singing Bach's Magnificat in D with the amazing Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo choir. We sang with the Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra; what for most is a once in a lifetime opportunity has come my way many more times in my life, thanks to my incredible friend, UUCB Minister of … [Continue reading]

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Go With The Flow

March 19, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

For the love of San Giuseppe, I need to chill the fuck OUT! For serious, I am as tightly wound as that roadside giant ball of string; a tetherball of raw nerves. When I get like this, I remind myself of Carrie White, the titualar all star wingnut from Stephen King's first novel. When was the last time you successfully controlled something with your mind via tel-e-kin-es-is, HUH? Yeah, that's right...NEVER. Only Carrie had the power to flip cars loaded with the likes of John Travolta and that … [Continue reading]

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Eat the Pie

March 16, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

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A good friend of mine told me this story. She and her husband went to dinner with their longtime friends, Clair and Jack, with whom they are very close. They ate at an Irish Pub, and even though they were stuffed full, her friend Jack decided to get a piece of pie for dessert. Lemon Meringue pie. It took him a long time to decide. I'm too full for pie. Too full. No, I'm good just the check. Well, maybe- I hear that they have the world's best pie. NO. TOO DECADENT. In the end, he said to aw, … [Continue reading]

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I’m the Rhoda

March 12, 2013 By Shaun 2 Comments

La-la-la-LA-la, la-la-la-LA. La-la-la-LA-la, la-la-LA-LA... Of course you're right! It's the theme from RHODA, a tune I've been la-la'ing since I'm five years old. There's actually a recording of me la-la-la-la'ing into a tape recorder that managed to span time...I still have it! What little boy, when faced with the mic from a 70's tape recorder, didn't choose the simple-yet-bouncy theme from RHODA to sing? Well, picture if you will a little 5 year-old me, chirping the theme from this MTM … [Continue reading]

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This House is Clean

March 8, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

Alright ALRIGHT! I'll tell you... I started working with a health coach! Holistic even, and she's dynamite. It's my friend Rachel Anzalone who has her very own business- Holistic Lakewood- and she loves me. LOVES ME. Rachel, see, I trust Rachel and when she says (after reading yet another grim blog entry) "Let me help you get healthy," well, I let her! I've just started a 14 day cleanse...waitWAIT! Not like the Dr. Oz one where I wanted to KILL even cute puppies and kittens wearing … [Continue reading]

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Shamrock Shake!

March 3, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

Shamrocks were shakin', and that's not all. At one point, I looked down to see that my belly was shakin' and later at about Mile 4, my spirit was shakin'. I mean, shaken. You're probably wondering how the race was... First of all, it was FUCKING COLD OUT! About 21 degrees. Secondly, can we talk about the Old First Ward, the GATEWAY to Buffalo? Seriously, this is our GATEWAY?! If so, no wonder people are fleeing in droves. So, we have the apocalyptic Old First Ward, the doomsday skies and me at … [Continue reading]

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I Have Confidence

March 1, 2013 By Shaun Leave a Comment

For the love of GOD, Shamrock Run...LEAVE ME BE! Honest n' Jesus, I get an email now about every hour from the nice people at the Shamrock Run, a 5 mile race I'm running tomorrow. Harrowing subject lines like GET READY FOR THE SHAMROCK RUN and SHAMROCK RUN JACKETS ARE IN! have been replaced with terrifying one-liners like SHAMROCK RUN TIMING CHIP INSTRUCTIONS and SHAMROCK RUN-SOLD OUT! PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE! NO MORE! Each email is just a reminder in bombastic ALL CAPS that I am in no way … [Continue reading]

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