The upcoming releases section of this website has felt a bit like a closet in need of cleaning out. That load has lightened as of yesterday with the digital release…
I was once listening to an episode of Car Talk on NPR and heard a woman call in to Click and Clack with the following dilemma: she had a Honda…
I found this on Francis Prève‘s Facebook page. To this I would add step 7, “I am awesome,” and then step 8, “Go back to step 1.” Then it would…
Well, I don’t really read a Sunday newspaper anymore. Either they’ve been driven out of business by the internet or intellectually eviscerated by corporate centralized ownership. But I’ve been kicking…
We’re used to thinking of problems as a word that goes hand in hand with “personal.” Of course, there are problems in our professional lives. But when we struggle with…
For many years now, I have been using software in my meditation practice. In Buddhist meditation, we traditionally open and close each sitting by ringing a bell three times. One…
I wrote a post on Adam Yauch’s passing in August of 2012 that I thought at the time would be the first in a series on posts on the ironies…
As an addendum to my post of April 8th on Neil Young’s album Prarie Wind in general, and song “It’s A Dream” in particular, I’m posting this video clip of…
I don’t usually pay much attention to stories about the circumstances in which a particular record came to be. However, the stories about the timing of this record are an…
I’ve been listening to some records by Kurt Vile this week. (Smoke Ring For My Halo, Childish Prodigy, Constant Hitmaker, God Is Saying This to You…) I first heard his…
