Me & My Guitar, December 1978 Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. Twenty-nine years later, I still can’t play guitar. I took rather good care of that first guitar, the one with the red sunburst and a white pickguard. It had no case, but instead a sturdy, triangular long-box made out of corrugated cardboard. What it was …
Yellow Shoe Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. Curse this pollen for all it is worth. It is one thing to prevent my breathing, but could we please stop making my shoes look all jaundiced? That is all.
Nice day outside, eh? Pity you’re stuck in here. I mean, wherever here is, you’re there. And where you are is probably not the same as being out there. Unless, of course, you’re sitting on the deck or patio of some techno-forward thinking bar or coffee shop. Only then could you actually be here and …
Roll Tape! Two Urban Licks: Nikki and I met David and his lovely wife, for pre-show dinner. I doubt I’ll ever be crazy about the name, but if the food is always so interesting, I can overlook the oddity. So how is it? Tasty. Creative without being too poncey about it. And I covet their …
03-17-07_1817.jpg Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. Red Brick Winter Ale at Two Urban Licks.
Drain the veins in my head. Clean out the reds of my eyes to get by security lines. Dear x-ray machine, pretend you don’t know me so well … I won’t tell if you lie. Cry … Because the drought’s been brought up. Drink … Because you’re looking so good in your Starbucks cup. – …
Inspired by a post on DS Fanboy, here is a short list of the games I own for my hard-won Nintendo DS Lite. Brain Age: Train Your Brain In Minutes A Day (DS) Contact (DS) Final Fantasy III (DS) Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (DS) New Super Mario Bros. (DS) Polarium (DS) The Legend of Zelda: …
A quick twenty-one tracks from the almighty Shuffle for Tuesday. “Dusty Morning” – Jonathan Edwards “Lifelong Fling” – Over The Rhine “Gone With The Wind” – Frank Sinatra “Steppin’ To The Bad Side” – Hinton Battle, Jamie Foxx from the Dreamgirls OST “Bring It On Home (Live)” – Sam Cooke “The Big Guns” – Jenny …
In Marvel’s Civil War limited series, a major catastrophe split the hero community in half. One side, led by industrialist Tony Stark (aka Iron Man) fell in line with a government-sponsored superhuman registration act. The other side, led by WWII-veteran and super-patriot Steve Rogers (aka Captain America), resisted the movement on principle. In the end, …
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