Because I’m here, and on the computer anyway, I’m doing a random ten, because it’s been four months. I guess I should call it the “quarterly random ten”. Not a bad mix; a couple of nostalgic old favorites, and one new favorite (which is a cover of an old favorite). See if you can guess […]

As I’m an early middle-age white male hipster contrarian type, I mostly ignored Whitney Houston past the initial wave of pop stardom (though “How Will I Know” and all that were pretty popular tunes when I was a ten year old). I saw “The Bodyguard” of course, and spent most of my time cringing at […]

It’s been a while since I touched this particular feature. I don’t know why. Maybe I just needed a break. Or, it could be that I took my big box of discs out of the car a month or so ago, and haven’t gotten around to putting it back. There are, however, still discs in […]

So, I watched the game yesterday. It was a good game. Better than usual. All games should be that good – talented teams in a well-balanced and somewhat strategic contest, and didn’t need any of that semi-staged “aw shucks” human interest story stuff about the more photogenic players tacked on to be compelling. It was […]

For no particular reason, I provide here a link to the American Top 40 pop charts from the week I was born. All told, there’s not a lot of quality there, especially #1, which straddles the line between hokey and oddly creepy pretty well (though I suspect there were at least a few jokes cracked […]

Although I’ve been “blogging” in some form since 1995 or so, well before the word ‘blog’ was coined in 1997, in the form of various crappy personal “home pages” and a relatively popular unofficial fan-page for the band The Badlees at the height of their commerical success, the project which you find yourself currently reading […]

I don’t really know the Black Keys, other than what I heard a couple of months back in a piece on NPR (for the record, they didn’t sound bad), so I’m not entirely sure of the authority from which BK drummer Patrick Carney speaks in this interview as presented. But damn, if I don’t pretty […]

Last year I did one hundred mini-record reviews from my collection, and I had quite bit of fun doing it. I’m going to continue poking through this year as I get the time (when I’m not listening to NPR or audiobooks in the car, mostly), as long as it stays fun. I like talking about […]

For all the posting I did this year, I don’t think I hit as many personal “wow” writing notes this year. Most of what I ended up posting was “link and short response” and “oh look at this thing” blogging, which, while valid art forms, don’t really exercise the writing muscles much. However, that doesn’t […]

My favorite Christmas song, for what I hope will be a quiet Christmas eve. Joni Mitchell wrote it, I discovered it via the Indigo Girls, though I think I’m currently in love with this version from Tori Amos: Hope you enjoy your Merry Christmas with a little bit of melancholy; I know I do.