Subject title is the title of the annual Valentine's Day mix CD (used to be cassette!) I make for Kelly. It's playful and it ties to two versions of the same song found on the mix: Kelly Clarkson's "I Do No Hook Up" (Kelly has a pop side, as do I) and a cover of it, stripped down to just acoustic and a totally different vocal by Brian Fallon of The ( Read more... )

You take the good, you take the bad, you take em both and there you have ( Read more... )

My wife and my older son could be filed under "Fanatics" in regard to the whole Harry Potter thing ( Read more... )

Last night I got a rather interesting surprise when I got home rather late from work: Two new kittens in my living room, exploring their new surroundings. These two new felines were inherited by my wife and children from my sister-in-law, who is the resident "cat lady" of her apartment complex and is trying to get away from that title by giving ( Read more... )

As has been well documented, President George W. Bush today put his weight behind and reaffirmed his support for a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In what can truly be called a historic first, the President of The United States actually proposed amending the Constitution ( Read more... )

I have kind of two entries in one. And they're long. So I am going to do something I rarely do and offer up some LJ cuts. Read one, read both, or read neither, as I suspect you will do or not do. :)

( Thoughts On Turning 25 and The Whole Quarter Life Crisis Thing )

So let me see for a second, my love, what I can remember of this night 10 years ago and the big day that followed ( Read more... )