Howdy fellow Space Travelers. I really don’t have a whole lot of content for today, but I thought I’d put up some brief updates about what’s going on with things in Downtown Hokeyville, Population: Us. So without further ado: 1. Anagrammatics! I recently discovered that if you rearrange the letters of my full name, you…
Attention Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, and Dan Fogelberg: lock up your slick mid/late ’70s production values, because The Kinks are gonna ape the hell outta them. Well by 1976, RCA had just about had it with The Kinks: six albums of diminishing returns, both commercially and critically, and several outright flops. Once the contract was…
Orphan Black had its premier last March on BBC America, which is somewhat misleading as it is a Canadian production but takes place in America. But don’t let that particular nugget confuse you. While this sci-fi-(ish) thriller has plenty of twists, turns, and mysteries to fill any three seasons of a lesser show and moves along…
Well… it’s not like you go and spend five nights at Disneyland, and NOT stuff your face, right? As part of our entire Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend experience, Boots & I decided to take advantage of the variety of restaurants around the entire resort area. There were certainly plenty of options available: between Downtown Disney,…
Well as they say, no rest for the wicked. Or was that no pants for the lawyers? I’ve never been good with the lingua franca, or perhaps even not sure exactly what the lingua franca is, and I’m too lazy to Google. What a weird way to start a post… Well moving on then… fresh off a…
So their previous album The Kinks Present: A Soap Opera represented The Kinks at their absolute lousiest. Crappy album, crappy critical reception, crappy sales. If the previous two albums — the ambitious, sometimes entertaining but ultimately unsatisfactory Preservation Act I and Preservation Act II — didn’t drive away most of their 60s fans, Soap Opera…
Wait! One last bit! I have never really shared my Playlists before, but I figure I might as well include the tracks I listened to last weekend during the Disneyland 10K and Half Marathon. I have a pool of songs on my Android and basically set them to Shuffle. It’s a weird selection of tunes…
The 8th Annual Disneyland Half Marathon took place in the early morning of September 1st, 2013, and it was a pretty significant race for me. First, it was the second leg of the Dumbo Double Dare challenge. I had run the first leg the previous day during the Disneyland 10K, which meant I only had…
There’s something a little bit cool about doing an Inaugural race, isn’t there? The obvious answer to that question is another question, and that other question would be “Aren’t inaugural runs just another excuse for runners to feel entirely smug and overly pleased with themselves?” It’s true. We just can’t get enough of ourselves. What’s…
At 5:15 in the morning on Thursday, August 29th, 2013, a Lincoln Town Car pulled onto Hiatus Road in Sunrise, FL, and with that auspicious beginning Boots and I began our journey that would take us from the suburbs of Fort Lauderdale, FL to the legendary Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA. The time had finally…