Buyer Beware
This “Limited/Special Edition” CD thing is getting out of hand. I went to Best Buy yesterday to get the new Arcade Fire album Neon Bible. (Yes, I know it’s available on eMusic, but a group like AF really needs the full dynamic range to be appreciated, not a neutered MP3 file.) While [...]
Please Don’t Comment On My Grocery Choices
So the other day at Safeway, I was doing my own thing, minding my own business, standing in line at the checker. “General Hospital SHOCKERS!”… yeah, yeah, whatever. I noticed that the bagger in my line was someone I’ve never seen before – an older gentleman (in his late 50s or early 60s), [...]
Broken Streak
Ack! I missed doing a blog entry yesterday (Sunday the 4th), ending my streak of daily posts which started on Feb 9th. And here I was hoping to get at least a full month of daily entries under my belt. True, a lot of the entries weren’t saying much (as usual), but [...]
Too Cold For That
This is not me.
People have to pay me to see that.
Latre.
Flogging Dead Media
Don’t have much to say today, so I thought I’d run down the list of the CD’s that arrived today from my online order. Actually buying CD’s these days is pretty rare for me, but these are all special editions or ones that haven’t shown up on eMusic after a reasonable amount of time. [...]
Salty Behavior
I seem to have lost my taste for salt lately. I was never one to slather table salt onto everything on my plate, though I usually add it to poultry, eggs, and tomatoes. I do like my salty snacks and eat pretzels primarily for the salt. But lately I’ve been noticing that [...]
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