Does this sound familiar to anyone? I think there are a lot of us that can relate at least a little bit to the first couple of paragraphs in this essay from slacktiverse; the experience of being bullied, the advice from authority figures that isn’t particularly helpful… And, of course, the fact that when we […]

For your consideration, a theory about the curious intersection of music, film, and the passage of time, courtesy of Steve Haden at the AV Club: …director Robert Zemeckis used Lewis’ “The Power Of Love” in the biggest box-office grosser of 1985, Back To The Future. Conceding that I was likely giving Zemeckis and his co-screenwriter […]

Another couple of trips up and down the I-95 corridor, and another handful of CDs drawn more-or-less randomly from the big green box to talk about: ♦Poison – Native Tongue: Remember those couple of years in the early 90s when it seems that all the big 80s hair metal bands had one of their founding […]

…or, you know, “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC? I mean, there’s the whole Iron Man II precedent and everything! The Foo Fighters under the credits didn’t quite cut it for me. As you might have guessed, I finally got around to seeing Thor this weekend. And unsurprisingly, I really, really liked it. It was easily the most […]

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Located against the wall below a window in my home office/computer room, is a very large green trunk. This trunk contains a unique view into my personal history, as it holds within it the vast majority of my music collection, from the yellowing fold out labels of the first cassettes I ever bought with my […]

Y’know, since it was so busy and all…I did things. But, given that it’s already Tuesday and I’ve moved on? I dunno. I can say that Colleen and I had a great time at the Jonathan Coulton show, and really enjoyed the new songs he played. The new record should be fun; really. Cough hand. […]

May The Fourth Be With You! It’s time to party like only an intergalactic assassin droid can. Happy Star Wars Day!

Found out on Tuesday that for the rest of this week, I am the team lead/coordinator for two different integrated project teams on two different projects, thanks to a quirk confluence of annual leave. So, I get to be the boss of two disparate things, with all the attendant rights and responsibilities (but not the […]

Unlike the rest of the country who seemed to be up and around watching baseball, I was asleep when the news came to light originally, and didn’t find out until the dulcet tones of the NPR newsreader woke me from the speaker of my alarm clock. The story I heard first upon waking at 5am […]