everyone who knows me here probably knows that there have been a lot of songs written about me over the years by various troubadours such as carly simon. the miracle of indie radio bythos who is playing songs only tangentially related to the holiday (when related at all) just reminded of me of one that i had so completely forgotten that it's almost ( Read more... )

one of the few hobbies that take up what little free time that i have is fantasy baseball, in several varieties ( Read more... )

having finally seen concussion, i can concur with those who said that racial preferencing kept it and will smith from the oscar noms. it was the third best picture of 2015. it was generally pretty easy for americans to get mad at big tobacco. it's much harder for them to get mad at big sports. as hard as it is supposed to be to do so, nicotine is ( Read more... )

i haven't listened to bythos much in quite some time, and maybe that's part of the problem.

anyhow, because bythos is bythos, he gave me u2's zoo station, the 1st track of achtung baby. and then naturally followed that immediately with nine inch nail's cover of the song from ahk-toong bay-bi covered. algorithms schmalgorithms. the file name for my ( Read more... )

we've just recently picked up watching (rewatching, mostly, for me), house again, having watched all of the first two seasons (except the second season finale) when we were in michigan. we watched several episodes in the past several days including a pair on tuesday night ( Read more... )

so the first song in our oft-mentioned but never revealed annual christmas mix album by c. and myself (the 2014 special magnum opus edition) is come to me by goo goo dolls, which i happened to hear by chance in 2014. it was a natural fit for the first song because it was framed both from the standpoint of a long-wed couple looking back on their ( Read more... )

our christmas mix turned into (as it was clearly meant to all along) a very special mix, one which spans the arc of our lives for almost the past ten years ( Read more... )

NB: i recommend having read my previous entry: 'detroit marathon i' before reading this entry.

so every year that we've spent christmas together in pittsburgh (2012 & 2013 so far), christy and i have worked together to create a christmas mix cd to give as a gift to friends and family, each with its own theme. the first edition was double talk ( Read more... )

it was ushered in by paolo nutini:


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i laughed out loud just now. twice. i'm reading the deposition testimony of one of our witnesses and he went to college in great falls, montana, which is where i went for a trial around halloween of 2009. i know it's the 3rd-largest city in the state, but still....

and so just after that i went to glance at the wiki page on great falls, and ( Read more... )