At the office this morning, I was visited by a trio of co-workers collectively wearing hot dog, ketchup and mustard costumes and handing out “treats” of ketchup and mustard packets. It’s going to be one of those days, and I’m okay with that. This kind of surreality is one of the reasons why I like […]

Somebody finally did something interesting and creative with auto-tune: Sagan’s delivery on Cosmos, of course, was already pretty musical anyway…

Another week comes to an end; a week of a bunch of big, one-time stressors that I’m glad to have gotten past mosty unscathed. As far as I can tell, other than the usual weekend mundanities, I’ve got a whole lot of nothin’ on the plate. I think I’m going to enjoy that. Maybe I’ll […]

Pres-sure!! …and some cleaning supplies.

The week’s been mostly a blur; lots of kid taxi duty, review sessions on training materials for software that hasn’t even made it through preliminary build yet, homework assistance, funeral services, making a nuisance of myself to certain financial institutions, and planning for weekend projects. I’ve honestly been losing track of what day it was […]

As much as I’m not a fan of “kid” and “grown-up” being non-overlapping circles in the Venn diagram of life, I’ve noticed over the last year or two that there’s one area where it feels like I’ve crossed the line; boarded the elfship and sailed Into The West, never to return to Middle-Earth. Or to […]

As first promised eighteen months ago, the band that provided the soundtrack to my college years, The Badlees, have come out of semi-retirement and obscurity to release a new record. Next month, we’ll find out why, exactly, Love is Rain. Preceding the release is a new tune, “Radio at Night”, streaming through that tedious myspace […]

The title is one of my little rules for life, and one I try to follow if I can help it. There are always exceptions when timing doesn’t work out (U2, Springsteen, Yngwie), and I usually end up regretting them, even if there was nothing I could do about the situation. Even if the performer’s […]

Crap. Les Paul died. All the stories today are going to list the credits: electric guitars, multi-track recording, changed popular music, etc. It’s all true. I just watched the documentary PBS did about him a couple of years ago, “Chasing Sound”, over the weekend, and was amazed. Seeing how Les played – in his nineties! […]

I watched Enchanted with Mary last night. It’s a cute movie, even if it can’t decide whether it wants to completely buy into or take the piss out of all the “Princessy true love conquers all” tropes; it’s a little schizophrenic that way, but remains enjoyable fluff. James Marsden sells the hell out of his […]