1) Breakfast w/ J & J. Coffee, orange juice, eggs, hashbrowns, etc.2) Walk to AJ’s with J, J, T, M, M & N for second breakfast. Coffee, upside down cake, three-cup Pepsi Challenge (that one study Gladwell cites is right–none of the three of us were able to correctly identify all three cups!).3) Talk to […]
Little known fact about me: I play a mean air guitar. My burgeoning talent generally goes unrecognized–I only play for the most choosiest of audiences. On Thursday, the spirit came upon me. And I played–like a man possessed. Played with an outpouring of passion, like an avalanche running down a mountain–like an outburst flood, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Tallest Man On Earth is actually not so tall. In fact, at five foot six or so, he’s rather unpreposessing. But just wait until you hear him sing. If you haven’t listened to The Tallest Man On Earth, you owe it to yourself to find Shallow Graves and give it a listen. It’s one […]