Okay, I have a big week ahead of me, so I'm going to let you lazy bas...errr, dear readers do the heavy lifting this week. This week I ran into three articles about three people who've meant a lot to me in my life, and instead of merely linking to them and blithering on about Continue Reading

A week or so ago, a friend of mine was in a generous mood and asked me if there were any books coming out that I'd like to read. I've known him for many years, so I just intuited that that meant fiction, because that's something we have in common. I thought a while and Continue Reading

Another Record Store Day has come and gone, and it's interesting to see how this pseudo-holiday has evolved. Like Mother's Day or Secretaries' Day, but far more overtly than either of those, it's an event organized by an industry to both celebrate itself and sell stuff. Lots of stuff.  And that's the way it seems Continue Reading

As those of you who follow my other blog know, for the past five weeks I've been careening around North America. Needless to say, this meant some ingenuity when packing, especially if I were going to acquire anything over there, as I inevitably do. I was going to hit two distinct climate zones, for one Continue Reading