It’s morning. I woke up late. Now I’m staying up late ( Read more... )

There is a blackberry bush growing over our fence and into our backyard. I’m not complaining, though-free blackberries! And the fruit is growing heavy on the vine. I’ve already picked two bowls full of berries, and tomorrow I’ll pick a third. The laziness of my neighbor is not always to be abhorred. At least not in the cases where free blackberries ( Read more... )

As I plod along through my independent study of world religions I am endlessly surprised at the similarity between the teachings of the world’s great moral teachers ( Read more... )

I just picked up a couple of B-52 records “The B-52’s” and “Cosmic Thing”. I’ve been wanting to add The B-52’s to my collection for some time now, but there was so many other records that I had on order before them that I just kept putting off ordering them. So, when I ran across a couple of their records at a reasonable price just sitting on the ( Read more... )

Lately it’s been too hot to sit down and type anything out for this journal, and in truth it’s a little too hot to be doing it now, but none the less I felt I had at least a few things that I wanted to prattle on about ( Read more... )

My Copy of Wetrix showed up in the mail today! For those of you who aren’t in the know, Wetrix is one of the greatest puzzlers of all time. It came out on the Dreamcast in 1998, and like any other classic puzzlers it has yet to become dated! I was lucky enough to get a new copy for $8.00, still in the shrink-wrap! There’s something obscenely cool ( Read more... )

I don't usually make more than one post a day (or even a week these days) but I just wanted to let everyone know about the new Leonard Cohen documentary coming out. Personally, I'm excited. There's a few cool people in the video (Nick Cave for instance) and few not so cool people (U2 for example) but overal it looks like a good flick and I'm ( Read more... )

I don’t know what it is, but there is something intensely exciting about knowing that there are packages on their way to your house. I think it’s the thrill of wondering if you are going to have a special surprise waiting for you at home that is going to break up the usual monotony of the day ( Read more... )

NPR has a little blurb about the Mountain Goats, check it out: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5406232

Is anyone else afraid of these guys becoming a BIG TIME band?

Monday May 15th 2006 ( Read more... )