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.
3:00pm. That’s when we were scheduled to meet Neil in the restaurant at the Park Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina. So there we were. Right on time. And waiting for us with a smile was the hostess. “Hello,” I said with the awkward presentation of someone walking into a restaurant with no intention of actually …
This article was posted originally on 03/22/2005 at JIVE Magazine, an Atlanta-based print/web magazine. Sadly, the website is no longer active. But seeing as I’m still proud of the work, I’ll be re-posting articles here as I see fit. Today’s re-post is inspired by an article in the Atlantic about joining a Social Media network …
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