I was reading an interesting article by Alexis Petridis on The Guardian discussing whether you should try to influence your kid’s tastes in music. I don’t have kids myself, though as I’ve mentioned before I do have a 12 year old niece with very strong opinions on music. But this idea of should I or [...]

We all know Tweeting is a pretty ridiculous indulgence. I have a hard enough time trying to convince myself anyone cares what I have to say about music on this blog, let alone that they’d care if I’m at the park, on the toilet or that I just drove past a guy wearing OMG THE [...]

Sit right back and I’ll tell you a tale, the tale of online business relations gone awry.
So I was scrolling through Craigslist yesterday, looking for various gadgets I’ve had my eye on for a while. I manage to find what I was looking for (close enough, anyway) and I send a missive asking whether [...]

I’m fairly new to the whole Twitter phenomenon, and while I think I have a lot of the basics down, there are still some things I’m fuzzy on. I only recently figured out the whole ‘@reply’ function, which is probably super basic and easy and I shouldn’t admit it because it reveals that I am [...]

Who knew in this day and age we blog folk would be going 1969 on your ass and staging a sit-in? Let’s pluck some flowers, get out the LSD and spread the free love, baby!

Okay, perhaps we won’t go that far. Allergies, day jobs, STDs and all that. Still, there are times when you need [...]

Oftentimes, when I sit down to write an entry on this blog, I think of myself as Bill Paxton’s character at the beginning of Titanic – a know-nothing douchebag lacking the intimate knowledge required to have a meaningful discussion of the subject at hand. Every attempt at creative writing feels like an affectation, an artist’s [...]