2016 Report Card

INPUT

Movies           55

Theatre          62

Readings (attended)     22

Music          32

Classical Music   3

Choir                 3

Dance           5

Cabaret        3

Lectures        1

Art/Gallery/Museums        5

Photo Exhibitions           7

Book Award Ceremonies         1

War Correspondent Conversations       1

COMIC BOOKS        10

GRAPHIC NOVELS        30

Graphic novels for friends’ kids   15

BOOKS

Aaron Burr Related     2

American History        1

Classics                     3

Elizabethan History     2

Fantasy                     4

Fiction                     14

Film Criticism            9

Humor                       6

Marlowe Related         2

Mystery                      6

Mythology                  2

Noir                           1

Non-Fiction                 5

Occult                        5

Philosophy                 2

Plays                       24

Politics                      8

Reference                  2

Science Fiction           4

Shakespeare Related      5

Theatre Criticism            9

Thriller                       1

Westerns                  10

Womens Studies          2

MAGAZINES

Film         2

Literary              3

London Review of Books   15

New York Review of Books        16

Poetry              11

Political             7

DVD’S       26

CDs                                      8

MP3 Albums (non-Techno)    12

MP3 Albums (Techno)           19

MP3 Albums (Xmas)              11 

CREATIVE

Poetry Readings Given (headliner)                0

Poetry Readings Given (open mike)              4 

Plays I Wrote That Got Performed                 0

Plays I Wrote That Got A Reading                  3

Theatre Festivals Attended            1 

Novels        0

Memoirs about closed bars        1

Plays

        Full Length               3

        One-Act                   2

        Ten Minute               8

Stories         1

Poems

        Sonnets    239

        Poems       17

        Satires        3

Poems Written That Still Need Work      21

Poetry Collections         1 (privately printed; single copy)

In-Progress/Unfinished/Ideas      157

Submissions          38

Acceptances            0

Rejections received from 2015 Submissions     17

Rejections received from 2016 Submissions     15

Responses I don’t ever expect to get from 2015 submissions 21

Responses pending from 2016 submissions         23

VICES: THE SOFT STUFF 

Anchor Steam            2

Blue Point Ale            2

Bronx Brewery Pale Ale   1

Brooklyn Lager         20

Bud Light             3

Cleopatra IPA       2

Corona               13

Dos Equis            3

Dunkel                8

Guinness         137
Heineken           12

Lone Star           4

Narragansett       2

Newcastle          1

Nitro Stout         2

Old Speckled Hen       2

PBR           1

Route of All Evil Black Ale            3

Sapporo             2

Sierra Nevada              2

Tecate               12

West End Brews      6

VICES: THE HARD STUFF 

WINE

Burgogne           3

Cabernet Sauvignon: glasses           40

Cabernet Sauvignon: bottles              6

Cote du Rhone                6

Malbec               19

Merlot                 2
Pinot Noir           23

Proseco              10

Rioja                    2

Rose                  30

Valpolicella           3

BROWN STUFF

Baby Brother              5

Brooklyn Eagle            1

Jameson's                 52 (!)

Jameson’s & Coke        2

Spiced Rum                20

Talisker                      16

CLEAR STUFF

Bloody Mary          3

Margarita               6

Moscow Mule          4

Patron shots          7

Pear Martini           2

Sake  bottles          4

Vodka with pink lemonade     2

Vodka Cranberry           3

HERBAL STUFF 

Cannabis Sativa   3

KIBBLES AND BITS 

Bowling       1

Neurotic Attractions 1 
Honest To God Attractions    1
(Not like it did me any good. Fucking 2016. See below.)

New Soul Mates Met      2

Resolutions Made:     4

Resolutions Kept:      2

All-Nighters              6

Days Lost After All-Nighters       5

Working Days of Drinking (8 hours plus; not including all-nighters)      7

Hangovers     2

Nights on the town with a fetish model       0

Dinners in LA with a fetish model               1

Drinks at secret bars                4

Number of friends who voted for Trump        2

Number of Trump-voting friends who de-friended me because I wrote anti-Trump sonnets       1

Number of times mistaken for Giorgio Moroder   6

Number of times I told pretty women I wasn’t Giorgio Moroder    0

Number of times I talked in an Italian accent when mistaken for Giorgio Moroder   6

Separated at birth

Number of women who cried on my shoulder: 4

        In the street         1

        In her living room    1

        In a dive bar         2

Confessions of love received   0

Confessions of love given     1

Rejections of confessions of love given   1

Vows never to fall in love again        1

Vows I expect to be broken in 2017     1