I’m a huge fan of irreverence in any context. My guitar sensai introduced me to the music of Bobby Bare, who was way ahead of his time in terms of being irreverent, and its this irreverence that initially attracted me to Todd Snider.
Snider sings about things that I often think about, but [...]
Filed under: Music, Politics on January 14th, 2010 | Add Comment! »
Behold, the Tye-Dye Tomato from the Burpee seed company. Although I suspect it’s somehow genetically engineered (is that what hybrid means nowadays?) it looks really cool, and probably tastes good too. The Queen of My Universe says their seeds suck… but admits that their marketing is top notch.
I can’t [...]
Filed under: Food on January 10th, 2010 | Add Comment! »
It occurred to me, as the New York State Senate recently choked on its historic opportunity to provide equal rights to my gay and lesbian brothers and sisters, that the problem people are having with gay marriage is the word “marriage.” We hear lots of talk about “preserving the institution of marriage” (bullshit) and [...]
Filed under: Politics on January 9th, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Here they are, in no particular order.
The Jane Does - You Bring the Devil
This is perhaps my most obscure pick of the decade, and my freakiest find. The Queen of My Universe was showing me the tremendous hoax of a video blog called Lonely Girl or something, and she had a Jane Does song [...]
Filed under: Music, Reviews on January 4th, 2010 | Add Comment! »
Ever wake up in the morning when you could be sleeping in, or trying to get to sleep at night but some dumb fucking song just keeps going through your head. Usually you only know, like, a few words of it and those are the ones that keep looping over and over?
Welcome to my [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Music on December 31st, 2009 | Add Comment! »
Okay… I’ll admit, I’m not much of a theologian. I’m not even Christian… but I think Jesus was a cool dude. I love the way the guy thought, and I think if more of us lived the way he supposedly told us to, we’d all be much the better off for it. [...]
Filed under: Politics on December 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s that time of the decade when everyone seems to be doing their end of the decade thinking, and despite my resistance to doing so, I have done so. When I teach my personal recollections of the history of my lifetime I tend to look back on the 80’s as the worst of historical [...]
Filed under: History, Music, Politics on December 27th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
The quote “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” is often misused. Jim Rome uses it a lot on his radio show. According “Jungle” lore, it was most famously used by a pro baseball coach who used it to encourage his team’s base runners to lead off bases more to and consequently steal [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on December 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A couple weeks ago at the behest of Moveon.org, I attended a town hall meeting at the Potter Town Garage with Congressman Eric Massa.
Yes… the Potter Town Garage. It was very difficult to find, and I was looking for a Town Hall instead of a town garage. I saw a few official [...]
Filed under: Politics on September 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always wanted a fireplace in my back yard, but zoning ordinances and safety considerations always stood in my way. Finally, because of a narrow loophole in our town’s fire code, I can walk through town with my head held high knowing I’m not breaking the law by having a fire in my [...]
Filed under: General Observations on August 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
