Napcast 37

Hey all. This is my first time doing a NAPcast, and I think by the end of it I got the hang of it. Not the actual putting together of the cast, as that’s the easy part. Let’s just say I’m fairly behind the curve on this stuff, and leave it at that.

For [...]

we interrupt the stay on the island for a public service announcement.

Ertia Creations is basically dead.

Many of you probably don’t know what Ertia Creations is, which is kind of embarrassing since it’s a record label I co-founded. Don’t worry, this says more about how absolutely shocking I am at some brands of self-promotion than at your inattention to my endeavors.

(Although you’re [...]

My Better Judgement

So here we are the lunch for our new co-worker at the day job. Amongst all the small talk, I make a seemingly innocuous question, “What do you do?”

“OH, I do the fixed assets.”

“No, I mean what do you do.”

“Huh?”

“An avocation? What do you do outside the office?”

“Umm, I [...]

Ain’t No Senator’s Son

I want to talk about lyrics this week. I don’t mean I want to talk about their meaning or lack of meaning. I want to talk about the actual words and their use. Say you’re driving along (or walking, depending on your city) listening to lyrics that go something like this:

I can’t get [...]

Week 48: My Summer Vacation 1, Calle Gertrudis

This is the knowledge that comes with aging.

Over the next few weeks I will be writing about my summer vacation in Puerto Rico. But before I get into the music which is what this blog is about, I’m going to give you a little context information. I’m going to tell you about the [...]

We Are the Dying World

Here is part of a comment to Justin’s musical youth post a couple of months past…

My parents were into the folk movement, not surprising for New York at the time. Lots of Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Clancy Brothers as well as stuff from the Great American Folk Anthology like Jimmy Crack Corn, [...]

The Ballad of Kanye Worst or Why MTV Doesn’t Care About Black People

The celebrity universe is one filled with mammoth egos so utterly disproportionate to the wade pool of talent from which they all must so starvingly draw. Trying to grasp the scope of emptiness in the upper echelons of fame would be an exercise in futility, likened to understanding what a beach is by counting [...]

Napcast 36 or The Killing Spree of Saturday Night

I am posting this now, because the podcast is finished, and to give Heidi a break from her blog woes today.

Hello. This podcast will accompany a tale of Aleutian village living. I’ve shared a couple of stories about what it’s like to live in this small village. So some of you have [...]

che guaio!

houston, we have a problem.the showroom isn’t even close to being clean or finished and the italians are showing up. in suits. they have no place to sit. work priorities come before blog today.not that i’m a contractor… or that i’m responsible for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit clogging up all the streets causing all of [...]

the island, part 6: ontario

This is the sixth in a song-by-song series about why I chose FULL FORCE GALESBURG by The Mountain Goats as the one CD I would take to a desert island. Previous installments are available here.

Every morning after I first wake up I go to the beach, assuming it’s not raining too hard, and [...]