R.E.M. broke up last week.

Fifteen years ago I would have been upset. At that point I was in a major fanboy stage of my life and collected everything I could find by and about the band: CDs, fan club records, interviews, biographies, T-shirts, tour souvenirs, bootleg imports, video collections (on VHS!), albums from other bands where R.E.M. members ( Read more... )

I discovered something odd today.  When you log into a Gmail account on a strange computer, it also brings your Google browsing history to the new computer.  On Saturday I googled The Jesus and Mary Chain from my home laptop.  I always have Gmail open on my laptop so it sucks up all of my browsing history.  Just now I opened my gmail on a computer ( Read more... )

Today was all wrong. First, stinky_monky decided against going to the Container Store. Then my mom said that Adam Lambert's new CD is better than the Rolling Stones and Journey put together. Something is dreadfully amiss.

Happy Halloween, all!

I finally got in the Halloween mood on Thursday when 15 or 20 kids came by for candy.  The whole Beggar's Night concept is still irksome.  I asked my class the other day why the city reschedules trick-or-treating for a weekday and the consensus was that it protects kids from drunk drivers.  And it has always been that way.  I ( Read more... )

Today I was listening to my iPod as I walked across campus (yes, I'm one of those obnoxious people who walk around with headphones in).  When I got to my destination and took the headphones out, I heard the theme to the 1980s version of Knight Rider coming out of my backpack.  At some point something must have jostled my phone and turned on the ( Read more... )

Release date: October 26, 2008, 21:53
Press contact: bleedy@bleedystent.com

Sphingo Ate My Baby gains Legendary Status

Successfully completes Rock Band's Endless Setlist
Earns $32K, 0 new fans

October 25, 2008

Last night, at approximately 9:30pm, Columbus, Ohio-based Sphingo Ate My Baby finished its world tour in Moscow with the 58-song Endless Setlist, ( Read more... )

This has been a very strange week.  The most obvious strangeness was the unexpected hurricane that came through on Sunday and knocked out the electricity for three days (for us, there are lots of other people who are just now getting their power back).  Then there was a conference paper proposal that my advisers didn't like because they thought it ( Read more... )

stinky_monky gave me an early birthday present a couple weeks ago: an iPod-ready car stereo and four speakers.  Unfortunately, one must take the entire door panel off in order to get to the old speaker to change it out.  I went out a few days afterwards and tried to pop off a door panel but only succeeded in breaking one of the clips that holds it ( Read more... )

A week ago the Ohio State Senate took time out from approving guns in cars and delaying a requirement that employers give sick days to employees to unanimously pass the "Truth in Music Act."  The legislation addresses the widespread (yet new to me) problem of knock-off bands that tour under well-known names but do not include original members of ( Read more... )

I'm at a critical stage in my dissertation research but I'm stuck on an important concept, so I'm looking for help from my esteemed audience.  If you help me out you might get a shout-out in my acknowledgments section.

First, some background: I am looking at the issue of federalism in the American West, using the fight against air pollution at the ( Read more... )