So as a follow up to the Pitchfork Top 200 of the 80s, I put on my thinking cap and came up with my own Top 20. Remarkably, I sort of agree with a lot of stuff in the top 10 of the Pitchfork list, but I think it was too Brit-centric and as I think back to the 80s; my musical taste was all over the place. As you can see by this list. One of the ( Read more... )

So I went to a seminar in Columbus last week called Power Up and Lead. It was a program designed to “reshape the culture” of my company as we move forward into the next 10-15 years. Now I could be a skeptic and say in the 30 years I’ve worked for my company I’ve seen a similar “rebranding” at least 3 times and that there is nothing truly unique ( Read more... )

I had this uncle named John Solomon who everybody thought was kinda odd and different… he didn’t really fit into the norms of society he was sorta his own kinda guy. So when I was about 12 years old I was hanging out with him and he played me the Wilson Pickett Live In Philadelphia album and I was mesmerized… after all, my musical life at that time ( Read more... )

I just love my Internet friends for all they do and all they give me. While my weight loss journey is going well (and I even did some heavy chest work last night at the gym and it felt great) I know one of my major issues is my hip and my lack of flexibility there. Enter my favorite Mistress of Yoga alexgal to come to my rescue and offer me some poses ( ( Read more... )

I know that to a lot of people voting is blasé, seemingly a chore more than an honor, a privilege of freedom. I try and tell Tammy and people I work with who don’t think any election other than a presidential election is important how wrong they are. And god IT’S SO EASY. You don’t have to go stand in a line and wait for hours… you can get an ( Read more... )

For as much as I like Morrissey the persona, I do not think I would like him as a person. I am sure he is nasty and vain and opinionated and I don’t really like those sorts of people. I would like the Morrissey of 1978, the one who had still not become “Morrissey”, the one who was still Steven Morrissey. The one who was poor and not really sure ( Read more... )

Yes, I am anal about making lists. My favorite books, my favorite vacations, the favorite days of my life... I have these sorts of lists around on random pieces of paper or on a flash drive here or there. I am so anal about my favorite albums that I actually have a spreadsheet dating from 2007 where I list my 100 favorites, then in 2009 I have ( Read more... )

The first time I can remember hearing the song that changed my life with in the summer of 1975. I was riding with my dad in our 1966 Buick Wildcat on some old country road and I, as a child of AM Top 40, was busy turning the radio to find some song that would capture my interest. I was 14 at the time and my listening pleasures were usually ( Read more... )

I really would not say I am a goal oriented person. Or at least a successful goal oriented person. When I set specifics, I usually find some way to screw it up. I am better in short term situations like the major project I had to complete this month. It was a project that would normal take two to four weeks to do and I did it in about a week. ( Read more... )

Something I have missed for a long time is living in the country. Specifically, living in the country on a late spring/early summer night. Where we lived, there were no streetlights or any sort of illumination except the stars. And we had a hill in our back yard… and at night I would take an old blanket and walk back to that hill and just lie ( Read more... )