Speakeasy

Give ye password!
Just kidding.
Once more, it’s not that it’s all THAT interesting or I feel so exposed or whatever, but I’ve password protected the post below this one.  The password is the same as last time.  Search your email, you know it to be true.
If you didn’t get the email last time, or can’t find [...]

Protected: The Eagle

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The Soggy Bottom Boys

I’m not a man of constant sorrow, you know.
As previously predicted, I rode my bike to the park with Boy this weekend.
And if that was all the story to it, I wouldn’t bother posting, would I?
We had storms blow through early on Saturday morning, dampening things down and making it generally as humid as hell.  [...]

Radio Show Times Set

The people, ye have spoken, and ye have chosen a monthly radio show from yours truly.  So let it be written, yadda yadda.  I’m nowhere near as imposing without a serpent scepter and my beard bound into a cylindrical shape.
I’ve now officially scheduled a one-hour show on the first Thursday of the month until the [...]

Monday Music

Ah, flashback time.  I still remember the first time I saw this concert video – I was in my apartment in Richmond, my first semester in graduate school, sitting on the couch way too late at night and flipping channels when I came across VH-1.  And saw this.
I spent the next 45 minutes or so [...]

A thunderstorm of artsy WTF

I’ve had this idea to do this artsy kind of thing for some time, actually, and finally decided to pull the plug and try it.  I don’t think it ended up quite as I planned, but still kinda cool in a very, very, very strange way.
Yes, I realize that it reads like the writings of [...]

I’m a sucker for peer pressure.

So, I had enough fun doing the radio show last week that I’m definitely resolved to do it again, and sooner than six months from now like LAST time.  It’s hell having to re-learn the whole system again every time you do it.
So I’ve been thinking and talking to a couple of folks, and I’m [...]

Nimble

I’ve been taking my guitar to work with me for a couple of weeks now, and already the difference is like night and day.  It’s really gratifying to see that, actually.
Of course, the question it raises in my own head is:  “Gee, jackass, if you can get so much of your speed back in two [...]

Decompensating

Last night I was on the way home when I was passed by a bona fide Compensation Mobile.  Big Dodge truck, lift kit so it’s way off the ground, loud exhaust, window stickers, the whole 9.
And, of course, a pair of those dumbass plastic testicles hanging from the trailer hitch.
Are they funny?  Perhaps, in a [...]

And he said, “No Thanks.”

Last night’s sojourn to the planetarium turned out pretty well.  All things considered.
Like the “rocket launches” advertised?  Were film canisters half-full of water.  Drop in a bit of crushed Alka-Seltzer, shake, turn upside down.  Tick, tick, tick…POP!  Canister achieves an altitude of, say, two meters.  (Max Q is unknown.)
Impressive, but Boy was looking for more…fire.
He [...]