Yet another case of an album I had no idea had already been out for a while. This is a newish single from Oh Susanna, who Carin and I discovered years ago when she and her band opened for Jim Cuddy. It’s called “Tickets on the Weekend”, and it tells an amusing and apparently true …
Monthly Archives: September 2017
More Like Sputtering To A Sad Halt Like A Couple Of Losers ON Empty
Before you run from the police, you should really think long and hard about the potential ramifications of that decision. What if you don’t get away? Is whatever this is worth going to jail over? What if you cause an accident? Is possibly killing yourself or someone else a risk you’re truly willing to take? …
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Where Is The Line Between Fast Music And Noise?
What is the fastest music possible? Not the fastest music we can possibly create, but rather how fast does it have to be before our brains just can’t make sense out of it? The talk about the mental gymnastics we do to try to keep things in sync is kind of fascinating.
Lawyer Lawyer Pants On Fire
Something tells me Stephen Gutierrez is going to have a hard time living this one down. A Miami defense lawyer’s pants burst into flames Wednesday afternoon as he began his closing arguments in front of a jury — in an arson case. Stephen Gutierrez, who was arguing that his client’s car spontaneously combusted and was …
Well, that Song Is Ruined
This weekend we went to visit my brother. We helped him finally upgrade from the very cell phone Carin was writing about in this post from a decade ago, and we also got to spend some time with Trixie, who is doing pretty well for 12 and a half but is getting noticeably older. Also, …
A Survey On The Use And Accessibility Of Touch-Screen Devices Among Individuals With Visual Impairment
This one could take you a few minutes, but it’s fairly interesting. One of the angles that stood out to me was whether or not smartphones and such are replacing your need as a blind or deaf person for dedicated assistive devices. I’ve been saying for a long time that they absolutely are. Why, for …
Get On My Lawn!
Generally speaking, you probably shouldn’t take the law into your own hands. But sometimes it’s pretty funny when someone does. Police in La Puente, California, got a call from someone claiming he was being followed. When they arrived, what they found was a man jumping from rooftop to rooftop for some reason and refusing to …
Modern Pop Music Is Awful Say Scientists, Your Parents
Every generation thinks that the stuff it grew up on is better than the shit we have now. It happens with everything. Movies, TV, sports, society in general…you name it, somebody will inevitably complain about it. Maybe it has to do with the things I tend to personally pay attention to, but there’s nowhere I …
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So Long, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan. You Were The Best
As a tiny, wrestling watching kid, Bobby Heenan was a hard guy for me to wrap my head around. On one hand he was this terrible man who kept getting other terrible men to attack all my heroes, but as somebody who was also drawn to comedy and broadcasting from a very early age, I …
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Follow Me. A Short Film About Every Internet Video Making Goober You Ever Did See
Whenever I hear a person described as an “online influencer”, “internet celebrity ” or “thought leader”, I can’t help but think of somebody just like this geek right here. Seriously, this movie is all of them. A stay-at-home dad and self-proclaimed “internet celebrity” ignores an obvious addiction to social media, and attention from strangers, while …
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