Forgive me if this post feels a bit out-of-date: in the current news cycle, it might feel so Monday-ish.

When I was a teenager, one of my favorite things to do was to obsess on the "Paul Is Dead" conspiracy. You should know what I'm talking about - Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1966, but the Beatles attempted to cover it up via hiring a ( Read more... )

There's a tourist guide to Atlanta on The Economist's website that says something along the lines of "Atlantans love to talk endlessly about alternate travel routes & weather, so be prepared."

( And they know what they're talking about. )

Good Sunday morning from seemingly the only person currently awake in the Eastern Time Zone. 7 years since I officially became an item with the missus, as of around 1:30 or so this afternoon - long may it run ( Read more... )

Yes, its me ( Read more... )

Yeah, its been a long time. No, I haven't really read LJ in a number of weeks and I really can't now either. Yes, I'm writing solely because its the last day of 2007 and I have a record-geek duty to throw out my obligatory list. No, there are no descriptions this year because I couldn't find time to write them, but I'll be happy to converse on any ( Read more... )

Hi, we're back from the Netherlands, and with that we're grounded until Baby-chan #2 descends from the Great Stork in a few months. I'm not going to write a series of trip diaries, thank goodness, but so you know this is what we did in each city:

UTRECHT
Dick Bruna Huis - museum dedicated to the creator of beloved cartoon rabbit (in Japan, ( Read more... )

Hello from the "Business Center" of the Holiday Inn Express in Duncanville, TX. I'm on a business trip doing stuff in Cedar Hill (a little to the south of here) this week, part of next week, and part of the week 2 weeks after next week. Duncanville is just south of the Dallas metro area - I can get to downtown in about 20 minutes, and I can get to ( Read more... )

Hello everybody. I've had writer's block for awhile and didn't know what to write about here. No Japan stories. No Minneapolis stories. No Nashville stories. No hospital stories. No Texas stories. And definitely no music reviews. Instead we're going to talk about my trip to Hardeman Primitive Baptist Church this past weekend to participate in a ( Read more... )

Sorry for those of you just clamoring to read my belated music reviews, but I've been busy lately. As you may have recalled, we were scheduled to visit San Francisco for our 5th anniversary last week. We did so and had a great time indeed. ikahana, my occasional alter ego, penned a 9-page document for us on SF from an insider's perspective, and he was a ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning around 3:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. I just realized it must have been my subconscious notifying me that today is my LJ's 5th birthday! Let's reflect on where I was back then:

On April 5, 2002, I:
- was still single, albeit engaged
- was living in Atlanta with geebs and JS, a veritable bachelor geek Ground Zero ( Read more... )