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 […]

All over the map this week. Swinging from dark into light with some frequency, often within hours. Luckily, by the end of the week, I spent a lot more time at the positive end of the spectrum, thanks to a couple of little victories. Still, I’m ready for my work week to be over, so […]

You been watching my internet presence this week? You know what the title means. “I Will” – The Beatles “Diseases of Yore” – MC Frontalot “Wanted Dead or Alive” – Bon Jovi “Rockin’ In The USA” – Kiss “Black Diamond” – The Replacements “This Is The Day” – The Cranberries “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom […]

Once again, the threat of weather has me working from home, which I don’t mind at all. I have plenty of official sorts of things to review and wordsmith, which should keep me busy for my requisite eight hours of workday. That said, otherwise, the week’s been kind of a dud. I was ready to […]

…the old and familiar can become something new and interesting. Somebody with a little time on their hands used some digital trickery to shift all those minor chords in REM’s “Losing My Religion” into a major key. The results are interesting – it’s the song you know, but shifting that third makes it into something […]

This past weekend, we kicked off our Con season with attendance at Marscon in Williamsburg. This is our third year at this particular Con, and it competes pretty handily with Ravencon as our “home” convention. For me, anyway, the experiences are somewhat similar, because I see a lot of the same friends at both, given […]

Yeah. I went back to work this week. With the remains of the pre-New Years flu not quite flushed from the system. At least traffic was nice this week. “Wrathchild” – Iron Maiden “21 Things I Want in a Lover” – Alanis Morrissette “Satch Boogie” – Joe Satriani “Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me” – […]

So, it’s nearly 10am EST, and we’re all still here. I’m not surprised, but a small part of me is a little upset, what with all the literal wailing and gnashing of teeth we’re missing, and the figurative stuff I’m getting via twitter (though at least that’s funny). might as well spin some tunes, see […]

As alluded to in the last post with the kitten, the stress levels I’m dealing with are through the roof at the moment. For all kinds of reasons. This time, all that stress is going straight to my head, providing sustenance and power to those gnomes in my frontal lobe with the pneumatic hammers…you know […]