There's a total lunar eclipse tonight, visible in North America starting from moonrise and clearing throughout the night.

Any would be watchers, feel free to join Wendy, my spotting-scope, and I at Junior-High park here in Maplewood about 5:45 to see the red moon rise with an excellent vantage of the eastern horizon and the STL skyline (it's so high ( Read more... )

I had to come down and write this after lying in bed clenching and unclenching for an hour ( Read more... )

Last month, I got booted from my band ( Read more... )

This was a weekend for finding people I hadn't seen in forever. From catching a Bunnygrunt show for the first time since the Wabash Triangle burned down, to seeing a guy I played jazz with in high-school, to randomly being spotted by my old partner in avant-garde electronica crime thanks to Weneh having a bike malfunction ( Read more... )

I'm still here, just busy ( Read more... )

...There's a 17 year old who's "Music" list is as follows:
Bloc Party

The Bureau

Death From Above 1979

Franz Ferdinand

Hot Hot Heat

Incubus

Interpol

The Killers

Modest Mouse

The Presidents of the United States of America

System of a Down

Tenacious D

The Vines

The White Stripes

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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In at least one way the frieze in Union Station with "New York, St. Louis, San Francisco" is not out of date. it turns out We've got our very own secret NSA net-tap room right here in town! Suck on that, Chicago! It turns out that in addition the Gateway to the West, the strong AT&T presence also makes us the Gateway to a Third of All Internet ( Read more... )

A week or so back a switch flipped in my estranged wife's head and she desperately wanted to get back together rather than divorce. Was it because I'd been helpful and nice to her and her family? Was it because it was the end of her semester at work, and that brought her back into the moment where we split up during her previous round of grading ( Read more... )

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