Rufus “Tell Me Something Good” Oh my goodness. I love music. LOVE IT. What a revelation. It just hit me this morning how much I love music. Kidding. It has been an obsession since before I got my first faux … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2014
“Get a job…retire…and then you can have some fun….” Here’s a guy who does a lot of adventuring…big adventures, long treks…and here he is talking about one of the biggest. But what does he tell his wife when he walks … Continue reading
Stephen Stills “Treetop Flyer” So here’s a song about coming back from Vietnam, a pilot with a unique and marketable skill set, and running drugs for a living. What wouldn’t be inspiring about a song like that for a blog … Continue reading
Geeeeeeeshshhhh….all these happy “accidents”. I love something random when it turns out to be finding out about someone as interesting as Ben Sollee. “Random” is good when….random is good. Listening to the radio yesterday (SIRIUS RADIO!!! I’d recommend it if … Continue reading
I did a blog post yesterday about an old (Canadian) band called the Parachute Club. In looking for a video of them, I ran across a video of the lead singer performing at a tribute to this man, Jack Layton, … Continue reading
When I discovered that a station high up on the dial of my little black and white television was playing music videos back in the early 80’s, it was pretty exciting. And what wasn’t something to be excited about? Look … Continue reading
A couple of posts back, I was doing some “codgerizing” and celebrating how we used to discover new music. I talked about how exciting it was to dig through boxes of used albums and come home with some strange new … Continue reading
Dangit. DANGIT!!!! I got up at 5:30…on a Sunday…. feeling like my weird Norwegian farmer throwback internal clock has failed me because I “slept in” and didn’t get up at my usual 5:00…go out to my desk, power up the … Continue reading
I think about perspective a lot. Sometimes I write about it as if puzzling it through by remembering the order of a bunch of letters will help me come to a stronger conclusion. I desperately want to figure it all … Continue reading
There are consistent life events that I look forward to every morning. The “plunge” is one of them. It is a quiet pleasure to be able to push the plunger of the french press down into the murky coffee depths … Continue reading