Tommy Karr

Category: Life

  • The Park on 10th: A Dining Disaster

    Last night I had planned to enjoy a quiet dinner at the Park on 10th Avenue with a few friends to celebrate my steady crawl towards 40 (still a few years to go). Instead of a pleasant dining experience we suffered the most unimaginably poor service I have ever been inflicted with in my 36…

  • The Sixth of July (aka 36 Years and Counting)

    Thirty-six years ago today, at 9:20am, I showed up in the hospital as a brand new, bouncing baby boy crying my eyes out because the lights in the delivery room were too bright and people were holding me by my ankles while I dripped with birthing stuff and my mother cried with joy that I…

  • Marriage Equality, Star Trek and Bad Service… oh my!

    Friday marked a momentous day for New Yorkers (and I’d bet most open-minded Americans) when the state senate approved the Marriage Equality Bill and Governor Cuomo wasted NO TIME in signing it that evening. I couldn’t be more proud of my state.  Now, let’s hope that the rest of the country falls in line with…

  • Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Marriage Equality is Not a Threat

    Keith Olberman is absolutely right. Watch and learn.

  • Contact Your Senator! NY Marriage Equality NOW!

    I have called and just sent another email to Senator Espaillat (see below).  Things will only if we, along with supportive organizations like Broadway Impact, HRC’s New Yorkers for Marriage Equality, Marriage Equality USA, Freedom to Marry and others, repeatedly ask our government officials to MAKE it happen. If you are a New Yorker please…

  • Remembering the Clarence Brown Theatre

    I read an article in today’s Knoxville News-Sentinel that the University of Tennessee’s new master plan calls for saving the once-threatened Clarence Brown Theatre and includes updates to the facility to help improve its usability. My heart nearly sank when I heard that it was being considered for demolition in favor of a new space.…

  • Feeling Fine(d) at the Library… Six Years Later

    Last month I got an email alert from my credit monitoring agency and discovered that I had a delinquent bill of $12.00 due to some agency in Alabama.  WHAT?! I haven’t lived in Alabama for several years so I couldn’t imagine to whom I owed $12.00.  So I wrote to the agency who posted the…

  • Lost in Translation at the Dunkin’ Donuts

    Today, after a quick run at the gym during my lunch hour, I stopped in Dunkin’ Donuts for a large iced tea (it was blazing hot on the streets of NYC and it was a chilled beverage or heat stroke). The line was long but it usually moves quickly and when one of the 14…

  • The Ceiling Fan Calamity: Day 3 – Final Judgement

    I asked my roommate to check the ceiling for me.  I had a feeling that what I discovered under the plaster was not wooden beams or metal supports but concrete.  “Hmm, yeah,” he said, standing on my bed and scratching at the chalky grey underbelly of the ceiling.  “That’s concrete.” CONCRETE!  Yes, there are anchors…

  • The Ceiling Fan Calamity: Day 2

    The saga continues. The next day I sprang out of bed.  The dream I had was revelatory!  Duh!  Just twist the fixture clockwise and it will be freed from its hold and pop loose!  I couldn’t believe I didn’t think of that the night before.  I also couldn’t believe that I had dreamt that my light…