Month: July 2009

“Please report all suspicious activity.” Should I tell them about my calendar?

Post author By Mark Egge
Post date July 24, 2009
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Hrm. I love traveling. Airports are like the twilight zone. There’s a disconnect between the world outside the airport and the world inside. Really, airports are magical. You go inside the airport in one place, you put your self in the trust of strangers and engineers and all the best of American industry, and when […]

“Andrew Jackson” Jihad

Post author By Mark Egge
Post date July 19, 2009
Categories In Music

I put on Andrew Jackson Jihad’s “Can’t Maintain” for the drive to work this morning. And it’s been love at first listen. Mr. Jackson is a lot of The Mountain Goats–lo-fi, fast guitar, always played slightly out of tune–singing a thousand thousand stories of inner fears and minor incidents–a little of The Extraordinaires–playing upbeat, romping […]