Steve Jobs has had a marked influence on your life. You resisted him for years. You’re no fanboy, never a fangirl. Computers are tools, devices are merely those things that get you through the day. There is no place in your busy, very practical life for frippery. And yet … Look in your purse, there’s …
I’ve promoted Kickstarters before, but this is the first time I’m speaking up for a project that involves me directly. I’ll be playing Marty in an upcoming production of The House of Yes with Flickering Productions. So if you’ve got some extra cash, slip some under the door …
Say you are a musician. You want to do a ten city tour. Real cities. Los Angeles. Seattle. Minneapolis. Real life, no kidding, not right-next-to-another cities. It’s risky for even an established musician. What if nobody showed up? Would you want to go to Boston if there wasn’t a really good reason? (Just kidding, Boston.) …
My first pet wasn’t my own pet. It was my brother’s dog, a beagle named Peanut. He stayed in a largish pen in the backyard, thanks to the leash laws in our county. He probably was meant to be a hunting dog, but he didn’t hunt a thing. His talent was howling, which he would …
MARTA – East Line Inauguration – June 30, 1979, a set on Flickr. Visited an estate sale on Knob Hill Rd, just off of Briarcliff in Atlanta. Among the treasures available (sewing machines, playing cards, a ukulele) were a number of items that told a story of someone who witnessed quite a bit of change. …
So Torchwood is coming back, and this time on Starz. Yay? The first poster was revealed a few weeks ago, looking like something that a Bullwinkle villain would design. Boris! A second poster has surfaced, this time with more of what one might expect from a Torchwood revival. In other words, it’s got Captain Jack …
In 2009, I threw together a mix inspired by Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreaks. Here’s what I said then: I couldn’t dismiss it entirely. I left it on my iPod, letting shuffle find tracks on occasion and usually letting them play out. I started to think of it as a friend going through a rough …
Today. An anniversary deserving of recognition, even if you hold little admiration for the man. Conspiracies abound to the contrary, but seventeen years ago this week, Kurt Cobain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Seattle. The death of Kurt Cobain affected the children of the late 70s / early 80s far more than it …
Nikki was reading up on standing desks. Then she saw where some folks had combined a standing desk with a treadmill, said she might like to have something like that. I said I’d build one for her. So that’s what I did this week. And if I do say so myself, it looks quite nice …
The album I associate most with my first car, with my initial forays into driving on my own, going on those timid initial dates and experiencing for the first time the strangeness of a night drive home alone … is Hold Your Fire, the 1987 release by Rush. I don’t even recall why I bought it … and I did buy it. On cassette, of course.
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