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For the last few years, I’ve repeatedly made the journey to the Positivus Festival in Salacgrīva,Latvia. Usually the decision to go has been a fairly easy one. It’s hot in Texas, so why not...
Last night I caught the Austin band Nazi Gold at a free show at Cheer-Up Charlie’s. I’d seen them play about a year-and-a-half ago, at Red 7, and it was nice to catch them...
It’s summer, the time when so many people head to Florida for family vacations. Since part of my family lives in Florida, I’ve spent a lot of time there. Since I’m not big on...
Listening to the new Lana Del Rey song “Brooklyn Baby” makes me just as angry as listening to any of the rest of her output. It’s all about displaying the signposts of vintage cool...
After thinking a lot after Austin Psych Fest and then been catching up on this season’s Mad Men television show (where I hate that they’ve moved from the very pretty early 1960s to the...
The last few months of my life have been stressful, and to cope with it, I’ve been doing a lot of retail therapy. Unlike a lot of people, I usually do it at the grocery store.
In years past, my cabinets were bare with hints of tumbleweed. The shelves were empty. I never went to the grocery store. I joked with my college roommates that I ought to buy some plastic play food so that the kitchen shelves didn’t look so empty!
I don’t know about you, but last week was very, very intense for me, even though it was a short week. Our dog, Mr. Spanky, turned out not to have had a bad tooth,...
As many of my readers know, traffic is the metric that matters on the Internet. Not just likes and favorites, but the sheer number of eyeballs crossing your content. It’s the new world, like...
It’s nice to see a festival that I worked the guest list for several years in row get bigger and bigger! I’m VERY pleased about much of the 2014 Fun Fun Fun Fest lineup...
Back when I was in elementary school, we were in a unit learning about the tumultuous events of the 1960s, which included everything from Vietnam to the Civil Rights movement. It was going slowly....
