I would like to say this is a recent not so raging against the dying of the light entering my thirties thing, but unfortunately this has always been the case.  I'll be in the middle of a storytelling show feeling great with the audience, when I'll use words such as "Rex Harrison type voice" "I'm no Blanche Devereaux, but I was interested!" and "he had a Spiro Agnew demeanor" and I will have lost them.  While I'd love to give up and call it a day, and take my rightful place at the end of a bar stool nursing a spritzer of some type and chatting with the 90 year old men at the Friar's Club, or better yet, as a warm up comic for a bris somewhere, my references would be lost on them too.

This weekend I was at a new friend's house at the end of the night and someone put on some reggae music.  I said it was great, and one of the people in the group asked me what kind of music I like.  This question should be renamed "Do you actually think you're cool?  Because whatever you say now will be an embarrassment for all of us."  I racked my brain.

"Oh, you know.  The usual.  Vampire Weekend.  Phil Collins.  2Pac.  The Decemberists.  Rihanna.  Dirty Dancing sountrack.  Uh, jazz."  He asked what jazz musicians I like.   "Ok. Coltrane.  Miles Davis.  Gershwin.  Is that jazz?  Rhapsody in Blue.  The opening to Manhattan.  Yep.. But yeah I love reggae.  You guys remember that Cosby Show episode where Denise's friend and her watch it when Cliff walks in right?  And he's not amused.  And he's in his bathrobe with the paper?  And the friend keeps saying "I say hey mon!"  You remember that right.  Also his reaction is the exact reaction I have when I hang out with Youngs.  Right??"  Blank stares.  Oh no.  For anyone born post 1980, you really should be familiar with this scene.  It comes up more often that you'd think.  Best part I only now realized:  when Cliff uses a fake reggae accent when he says the word reggae.  Also, if you think I have not been singing this song to myself the entire time I just wrote this, then you do not know me at all.  Enjoy and you're welcome.