A Modest Proposal
The Chinese are fighting Internet addiction among the young the only way they know how: Boot Camp!
This is marvelous idea which I think should be extended to teens in this country. And why stop at Internet addiction? This could also be used to cure other teenage ailments, like Excessive Piercing And Tattooing, Wearing [...]
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), [...]
Something Saved My Life Last Year
I’m an extremely organized person. Ask anyone. Sometimes this does tend to conflict with my innate laziness (see this entry, for example), but for the most part I’m able to keep everything in order without much external help. Until this past summer. It all started with my father falling in the [...]
Raise Your Can Of Beer On High
There is justice in the world. Or something like justice. Maybe “justice lite”. I don’t know. At any rate, it made my little heart go pitty-patter to see that the second and third current top selling CDs at CD Universe (as of this writing) are the Spectres and Some Enchanted Evening [...]
Someone’s Destroyed My Attic Portrait
I’ve avoided facing it for a long time, but I’m afraid I can’t any more. My hair is finally starting to go gray. I thought that I would never go gray, not only because I would never turn old, but also because no one on my mom’s side of the family went gray [...]
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