Rock Sugar It took me approximately 90 seconds of “Shook me like a prayer” and maybe four more of “Crazy Girl” to have me clicking “Buy.”

Here’s some randomly generated, and totally non-romantic tunes for your Valentine’s Day/President’s Day weekend, where I guess we’re all supposed to go buy some mattresses then put them to use recreationally. Enjoy! “Poker Face” – Lady Gaga “So Unsexy” – Alanis Morisette “Living in the Sky with Diamonds” – Cobra Starship “On the Bus Mall” […]

Opening and closing with pretty folk music, with some nice loud guitars in the middle. A nice mix. My favorite bit this week is, however, the big – ass pipe organ on track two. “Fischer Store Road” – Sarah Jarosz “Intervention” – Arcade Fire “Gagged and Tied” – that dog. “Salvation” – The Cranberries “Heavy […]

Another friday, another big, threatening snowstorm on the horizon. Weekeend events are already being postponed before a flake falls. That’s the way it works around here. At least it lets me get some more mileage out of this image: I’m not going to complain too much; I could use the break to work the rest […]

I can’t remember the last time I was so anxious to get home from the road. I suppose the outside observer would say “Was’t that the last time you were on the road, whinypants?”, and they’d probably be right. However,between all the negativity and frustration at the office lately, having slept in my own bed […]

Little bit of snow this morning; nothing serious, but it still shut a lot of stuff down that didn’t need to be up and down VA. Whatever. The dusting didn’t affect me in any significant way, other than make the scenery on the way into work a little whiter and prettier. Wrapping up the week, […]

The whole state’s abuzz with the big news of impending doom and the ability to buy beer and wine at a couple of different grocery stores on a Sunday. As for me, I’m not particularly bothered by it; weather’s weather, and I never shopped at that place anyway. However, I am feeling pretty damned good […]

I am happily wrapping up my last work-related trip for the year, and it feels, unsurprisingly, refreshing. For the rest of 2009, I get to sleep in my own bed, and if I don’t, it’ll be my choice. That’s a really good feeling. To briefly revisit another good feeling, I found this old article archived […]

Following up on yesterday’s post, a radio station attempting to appeal to me could do a hell of a lot worse than programming a given broadcast hour with this: “Rime of the Ancient Mariner (live)” – Iron Maiden “Listen to Your Heart” – Roxette “Gunshy” – Liz Phair “Your Racist Friend” – JoCo, Paul & […]

About an hour ago, I typed “the end” on my first NaNoWriMo project, provisionally titled Get Out of my Head!, crossing over the 50k goal in the midst of the denouement. A full eleven days before the deadline. And I owe it all to spending way too much time living in hotel rooms. I’m reasonably […]