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A Case For Facebook
I am visiting my parents this weekend and I'm looking forward to it. I am not crazy about the city they live in and the long drive (5 hours) is one I could live without but over the past year they have been so wonderfully supportive and loving to me and my sons that I can't even begin to explain how much it has meant to me. I have not been down to ( Read more... ) -
Time To Kick My Own Ass Again
Amid the life chaos, work fundraisers with bad food, a stepped up social/dating life, and eating out way too much I've gained back more pounds than I wanted to. I can feel it on my body, in my clothes, and a little bit in the mirror. Nothing to feel too alarmed about but I worked too damn hard in the past year to get fit to let it slip away into ( Read more... ) -
What You Take With You...
I am rather ready to put 2011 behind me, for some pretty obvious reasons. In the bigger picture this year has been very tough. I've documented it here to death so I don't want to rehash it ( Read more... ) -
The Best CDs of 2011
I have in fact decided to write up a little something for 2011's music but I'm not going to do my usual format, where I've written pretty at length on each album and included pictures of album covers, etc. Instead I am expanding the list to 25 albums but writing less about each. More is less, less is more, and so on ( Read more... ) -
The Annual Twenty?
So... ummm... for years I have posted an annual Top 20 CDs of the year. I haven't really gotten to it yet this year and I am kinda wondering ( Read more... ) -
Jukebox Memoirs: "The Wizard of Oz Kinda Freaked Us Out"
So excited to share an actual posted spot on my Jukebox Memoirs series. Still waiting on a "roll out" that will featured several spots, but for now check out this Halloween-ish spot about the scary nature and possible subliminal messages contained in the soundtrack to The Wizard of OzEnjoy! Read more... ) -
Jukebox Memoirs: "We All Are Witness..."
This is what I hope will be be the first of MANY posts linking to a project called Jukebox Memoirs. While this particular spot/feature doesn't have that logo or brand attached to it, it does reflect what the series is all about: Music and how it wraps itself around our memories and experiences ( Read more... ) -
Wakin' Up Is Easy When You Got A Voice Ya Know...
It took a LOT to stay awake -- literally, I was nodding off in a balcony seat despite high db's! -- until You Am I took the stage around midnight last night in Portland. But it was totally worth it! Everything I love about them on their albums translated live ( Read more... ) -
I Saw Red
I just read that Jani Lane, former lead singer of the hard rock/pop metal band Warrant, was found dead at age 47 ( Read more... )