started this playlist on the mp3 player, which didn’t last all that long because the battery crapped out (must’ve gotten turned on while being jostled around in my bag*), so I shifted to Pandora part way through. See if you can guess where: “Your Brain Turns Me On” – Mikey Mason “Heat of the Night” […]

Not an awful week overall. The man hasn’t beaten me this week (though one woman a couple of states away has managed to make herself a pain in my ass). Stuff’s not bothering me so much – perhaps it’s good feelings left over from Ravencon (which you can hear more about at this week’s Pros […]

These convention post-ops to tend to be rather repetitive; I get to hang out with my convention friends, listen to great music, discover new things to play and read, and generally have good time in the world of geeky hobbies and media. This weekend’s RavenCon was not an exception to this pattern. I came into […]

I was in a place where it was possible for me to watch the season premiere of Game of Thrones last night, which was nice…I’m usually a year behind. Of course, given how damned tired I was last night, I still ended up snoozing through a bunch of it. I’ll catch up eventually. I enjoyed […]

I started “reading” (well, listening to Wil Wheaton performing the text of) Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One this week. I’m only a handful of discs in, but I’m really enjoying it. It’s pretty much pure, condensed nostalgia – aimed pretty much dead center at the culture of my childhood (the pop culture of the 1980s […]

Hrm. It took me nearly five hours to get home from the office this particular Friday afternoon. All told, an appropriate capper for a pretty crappy week. The usual unhappy stuff, plus the whole last minute delay of the furlough notices, a move that was sold as a welcome respite, but really just served to […]

Wish I had more to say…life’s been interesting, in a mentally and physically taxing sort of way, but not a lot going on worth blogging about. I’ll spare you my misery surrounding economic uncertainty, national politics, timing not lining up the way I want it to, and occasional buyer’s remorse. Rather than doing that, I’m […]

Yeah, quiet on all fronts the last week or so, save one or two harried tweets and a handful of desperate conversations. Sorry ’bout that. The biggest hassle is a work thing. Part of my job is managing some exceptionally technical tasks that normally go beyond someone in my job series, given to me without […]

Reporting here from the beginning of a four day weekend – took Friday off, which is mostly just taunting myself about the fact that I no longer have every Friday off. Doesn’t matter, I got to sleep in this morning. No huge plans for the weekend – gotta help load in some set pieces for […]

A while back, I posted this cartoon from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal largely without comment: I posted it because it encapsulated a certain truth regarding the nature of pop music and nostalgia. A truth that I found was more or less borne out in the contents of this list at Buzzfeed making the case that […]