Today I have been married to my spouse for thirteen years. Which is pretty cool, really. What’s cooler is that based on the (possibly flawed) math in my head, we’ve actually been something resembling a unit for about six years longer than that; something like not quite nineteen years. Doing some further math, given that […]

Here below, you’ll find a generally good representation of the numerous permutations of how all-encompassing the word “geek” has become. It’s become so mainstream that some of us who are represented by pretty much the entirety of the top 2/3 of the chart should really think about calling us something else. Or not. Still, I […]

Because that’s what I did the other night, rode into the sunset, and frankly, the glare got in my eyes, and I almost ran over a couple of joggers. Some tunes, now, from Pandora, because I didn’t have anything else handy. Good mix, anyway: “The Mesopotamians” – TMBG “Retreat from the Sun” – That Dog […]

About 3:00pm yesterday, as a typical Virginia summer storm was kicking up, the power went out in our building, which, as this sort of thing is wont to do, set off the fire alarm, right as the emergency backup diesel generator kicked on right under the window of the desk I’m borrowing and began belching […]

After doing fifteen miles on the W&OD trail after working way too long today, I’ve been spending my evening mostly just sitting there, letting time pass around me. I tried to plunk on the ukulele a bit, but the music just wouldn’t come. Maybe tomorrow…I’ve got it in my head that somebody ought to write […]

Once more into the well with this business; being off doing my own thing for the last week or so (“my own thing” largely being ferrying children to one place or the other, then retrieving them), I didn’t get much “new” listening done, but I did have a coupl e of stuff left over from […]

In theory, I should be back to my usual schedule of rants, record reviews, and obsessive theories about automotive pontiffs directly. Where was I? Nowhere; I just took some time off to address some meatspace things, mostly, though mostly to take a few days’ exile from the office grind. I was on the computer a […]

No, I haven’t died or quit or anything, I’m just off doing other things that don’t involve pouring random thoughts into the computer. The usual course of programming shall return eventually, have no fear.

So, I haven’t seen Cars 2 yet, and I’m not sure I will any time soon, for it will force me to consider the implications of the presence of the Automotive Pope, riding along in his own sentient Popemobile, on the already quavering foundations of the Cars universe. The mere presence of a white Alfa […]