We have a babysitter tonight! Huzzah! And now, your tunes: “Revolution #9” – The Beatles “Living Well Is the Best Revenge” – REM “So Unsexy” – Alanis Morissette “Pwn Monkey” – The Evolution Control Committee “Keep The Car Running” – Arcade Fire “Tony” – Patty Griffin “Powder Blue” – Barenaked Ladies “No One Knows I’m […]

I drew one of the crappy cars in the fleet this week, so I was unable to directly jack my mp3 player into the dash-mounted radio for the ride to DC. Rather than deal with the succession of low-power Jesus FM stations encroaching on the FM modulator once Morning Edition was over, I found an […]

Yeah, I’ve barely posted all week. Just not much so say, and a few things to think about. If you mind, sorry. Please find below your weekly musical selections, as well as a couple of links to things that amused me: "Waitress in the Sky" – The Replacements "First of May" – Jonathan Coulton "Sexy […]

Happy Independence Day, everybody. Looks like a quiet one around here, though if the rain holds out, we’ll try to catch the fireworks at the fairgrounds this evening. In the meantime, I’m going to just enjoy the fact that the week’s over, and my weekend is an extra day long. And since it’s Friday, here’s […]

To start with a program note (cue the “announcement!” song from Boy Scout summer camp), I seem to have misplaced my mobile phone; I only realized I didn’t have it this morning, but thinking back, I haven’t used it since Friday evening – it’s probably in the car I’m not using, but in any case, […]

Then talk about it: “I Was Married” – Tegan and Sara “Turn It On Again” – Genesis “Wind It Up” (live) – Barenaked Ladies “The Well and The Lighthouse” – Arcade Fire “I’m So Tired” – The Beatles “Change Is Hard” – She & Him “Swan Swan H” – REM “Lay It Down Clown” – […]

Since it’s unlikely I’m going to have a working computer on my desk at work tomorrow morning, I’m just going to go ahead and take care of this now: “I Wanna Be Your Hero” – Def Leppard “Thank You For Sharing” – Vanity Project “Cuyahoga” – REM “One Love” – Pat Benatar “The Human Hosepipe” […]

We spent the morning at “Community Day” at the kids’ elementary school…parades, pizza, wooden building blocks, and lots of kids that weren’t mine. That, however, is done and over with now. School’s out for summer. We’re now the parents of a fourth grader and a first grader. Now, I just need to survive the little […]

in no particular order: Now, I’m a reasonably observant Catholic, but when stuff like this happens, I get really annoyed with the Church. Denying someone marriage because of the consequences of a disability feels all kinds of wrong. On the other hand, there’s news that makes me really happy, like the announcement that Barack Obama […]