It Came from the 80s, Part 2

Yep, we’re back to the era when Billy Ocean was a megastar and the fashions were…okay, you have to admit, they were still better than the 70s. Go to Part 1 for the intro and the list A-C.

David Bowie and Queen – Under Pressure
Even before one Vanilla Ice ripped it off, err, had a hit [...]

Yum, fresh meat!

Damn it, now I’m all hungry.
No, seriously, I just noticed today all the new commenters I’ve had in the last week or so, and I wanted to extend a joint welcome to all of you – thanks for stopping by, and feel free to keep commenting!
I haven’t bitten anybody in weeks, and the last I [...]

Backhanded Compliments

My wife was explaining to me about her hectic day.  “And at 2pm, this.  At 3pm, that.”
I finally interrupted.  “Well, at 9pm, we’re fucking, so go ahead and pencil that in.”
She looked at me for a second in astonishment.  “Uh-uh.  You can go have your alone time if you want, but at 9 I’m watching [...]

It Came from the 80s, Part 1

Here we go, folks! As I said earlier today, this is turning out to be a series of long posts instead of just one long post, so bear with me. The future segments will end up reflected as pingbacks in the comments.
I had been thinking for some time about doing an 80s music blog, and [...]

Oh, here she comes…

Watch out boy, she’ll chew you up!
Hell yes, I’m talking about my long-promised 80s music blog.
I’m still not done, but what I’m realizing is that this thing is going to be long.  Damned long.  So what the hell, I might as well split it up a bit.  A little later today I’ll be posting the [...]

More Campus Life

Here’s another one of those things you don’t necessarily think about when it comes to working on campus:
I just saw a dude walking across campus. He was carrying two things:

A spiral-bound notebook
A pillow.

Edit, a few hours later:
You’d think that would be the most amusing thing I saw all day, but as I was [...]

Related Posts?

I’m sure that many of you, like me, have noticed the new “Possibly Related Posts” thingamabob at the bottom of your blog posts as of the last day or so.  And many of you, like me, probably gave it a big Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!? when you saw it.
Well, thanks to Cheeseslave, I now know how [...]

Monday Music

Going back to the well of golden oldies for this one…
Fleetwood Mac, “Silver Springs” [from "The Dance," 1997]

A number of observations come with this one:
Fleetwood Mac’s “The Dance” album was one of the standard road-trip CDs in the rotation for my wife and I back around the time we got [...]

Cue the Black Sabbath…

Thanks to Margarita Ashes for this one…
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Timely due to the movie’s imminent arrival. I’m actually really excited about the movie. Iron Man was one of my faves back in my comic-collecting days, and all of the [...]

Growth

I’ve had leadership positions over the years…hell, starting in elementary school. But it’s been a long time since I actively sought anything like that. I think there are lots of reasons, really: mostly a cocktail of introversion and aversion to criticism, I guess. It’s seemed more in keeping with the Tao [...]