OK I’m gonna just make this a brief update — oh, HI everyone! — anyway this is just a head’s up on some recent running goings-on and stuff. So I’m officially registered for the 2014 Disney Princess Half-Marathon. That’s hardly news at ALL around these parts, really. I’ve done four Disney running events and as…
Hi gang. Here’s yet another one of those apropos of nothing moments… Last fall, for no discernible purpose whatsoever, I registered the domain name “bigbootytime.net”. It was one of those random, silly spur-of-the-moment… moments. A coworker had come in one morning, sat down at his desk, and rather randomly said “Big Booty Time dot net…”…
Help! kicks off a period of unparalleled creativity, innovation, songwriting and musicianship in The Beatles’s history. The dark, folksy yearnings of the previous (and wholly underrated) Beatles For Sale lead to more experimentation with Dylanesque folk, country, and balladeering, while not sacrificing the pure pop craftsmanship that has earmarked much of The Beatles sound up to this point. 1965 was in…
Call it Muswell Hangover… You know, the first time I listened to Everybody’s In Show-Biz, I was right in the middle of my Kinks “discovery phase”, a time during which I made it a habit to dive deep into the, shall we say, “less than classic” albums in the band’s catalog. Upon first listen, in an…
Hi gang. Normally I would be regaling the four or five you haven’t haven’t stumbled upon my blog looking for suggestive Top Gun pictures with whatever Kinks album or pedantic running tale has tickled my fancy for the day. Well, right now we’re having none of that. OK I’ve been kvelling over the brand-new Wings Over America remaster, but that’s…
Click here in case you missed PART ONE of our amazing weekend epic running spectacular… HI! Welcome back. Hope you all enjoyed a good rest, maybe a nice nosh… I was jonesing for an egg salad sammich myself, but– OH. Right, Part II of our Keys100 100-Mile Team Relay review. THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES Let’s see…
On the weekend of May 17-19, 2013, seventeen fellow runners and I embarked on an epic amazing adventure so gargantuan in scope, Homer would have whistled an epic haiku about it. The empirical notion that ‘haikus’ are in fact prosaic and not musical is not lost on me. But if that grants you an air…
Click here for my review of Preservation: Act I. It goes deeper into the history of the project, its origins, production, release, and reception. You know, the worst thing you can say about Preservation: Act II (PA2 for the rest of this review) is that it really stinks, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.…
By 1973 Ray Davies seemed ready to wash his hands entirely of The Kinks; that is to say, The Kinks of the late 60s through early 70s. Or maybe just popular rock music as a whole. The band’s 1970 album Lola versus Powerman and the Money-Go-Round, Part One was a monster seller for the band and gave them some…
Let’s just keep this one simple. I have bronchitis 🙁 I’ve had it for a week now it doesn’t seem to want to go away. Because of massive chest congestion, I had to miss out on the ALS Recovery Fund 10K on Saturday, which was a massive bummer because it’s co-sponsored by dear friends of…