On Sunday, February 15th, 2015 I ran the Publix Fort Lauderdale A1A Marathon… and I did so with pleasure, since I’ve always had a fun history with this event. I first ran the Half Marathon back in February 2012 and PR’ed there. I loved everything about the race: the course, the organization, the lack of…
Rush’s self titled debut album could possibly be the least essential LP in the band’s catalog… or perhaps, one of the most important? Both, maybe? Neither? OK… let’s quantify Rush somehow by taking an honest look at its very existence. We might as well get the 800-lb. emu out of the way now; stalwart drummer…
Rush’s tenth album Grace Under Pressure displayed a further evolution of the band’s sound, eschewing traditional “hard rock” trappings of their earlier records in favor of a more diverse, contemporary, synth/keyboard-driven soundstage. Albums like 1980’s Permanent Waves and 1981’s Moving Pictures displayed a penchant towards shorter, more accessible and (dare I say) radio-friendly songs, whereas…
Quick update, gang! A few weeks ago, the most amazing and inspirational fitness innovator extraordinaire Fitz Koehler asked me if I were interested in sharing my fitness/weight-loss story for her blog Fitzness. After taking all of roughly 0.179 milliseconds to think it over, I readily agreed to do it. You all know me well enough…
Welcome to the first of what will hopefully be an engagingly ongoing series, in which your awesome buddies at Hokeyblog are teaming with Jeff Galloway to discuss training and motivation tips. The tips come straight from Jeff himself, with personal commentary from yours truly. The hope is that you — our gentle readers — find such discussions…
Good morning Hokeyfolks! Can I call you that? So here’s a spot of evolution for our burgeoning bastion of blistering blogging boombasticism (Stan Lee is going to sue me for that); Hokeyblog was selected to join the Jeff Galloway Blogger Program! Rejoice! OK but seriously now, I have been a follower, fan, and adherent of…
In order to shake off the stench of commercial disappointment that accompanied their three previous albums (Unmasked, Music From “The Elder”, Creatures of the Night), Kiss was now at the biggest crossroads of their career. After being increasingly viewed as a dated relic of the 1970s, their album sales continued to suffer. One more flop…
Destroyer was Kiss’s larger-than-life effort to keep momentum rolling after the multi-platinum success of their landmark 1975 live album Alive!. After releasing three studio albums to middling results, the band bet the farm on an album that endeavored to replicate their “live concert” experience, and successfully at that, even if the amount of actual “live…
OK, so sometimes I shouldn’t be so quick to judgment. Or rather, dig deep enough and you’ll find gold in them there hills. Or maybe even, sometimes the stars align and something’s rising or something else is in retrograde and blablabla is in the seventh house and OK I’ll get to my point now: I…
So let’s just address this straight on, shall we? Remember last year when I swore I would never, ever, EVER run the Miami Marathon & Half Marathon again? I mean, like, never ever NEVER ever?? Thanks to the delightful peer pressure from my good friend Sarah (aka “Helen” because for the first 6 weeks or…