For one reason or another, I’ve spent the past month or so obsessed with social media.
I can’t quite pin down the root of the obsession itself, but I have some basic ideas as to its factors. For one, and the most obvious one, is that roughly two months ago I started a band. Since I [...]

This post is old news. Old old news. Seven years old news. The reason I’m posting this now is twofold:
A) It’s completely fucking hilarious (in a sad sort of way) that someone of Chubby Checker’s past exposure and reasonable success could so blatantly and unfortunately prove himself to be such a fucking lunatic.
B) I’ve introduced [...]

Actor, salad dressing mogul Paul Newman is dead at age 83.

Jim James might have a mild Jesus complex (see left), but then again, he may deserve it a little bit. My first time ever at Radio City Music Hall for My Morning Jacket on Friday yielded the following insights:
RCMH is still an amazing venue (fucking duh).
Rock and roll may not be as dead as previously [...]

I know, it’s like I never post anymore. I don’t really know why. Sometimes, I’m connected. Sometimes I’m not. Now that I’ve got this new computer, and this new home, I’m feeling sort of more connected, so I want to jump back in, stilted, awkward language and all.
The problem, of course, is that now I [...]

 

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Those of you who know me know my fascination with mistyped, misspelled, lazy, confusing, or otherwise piss-poor signage, particularly those brought on by the faulty romanization of east asian languages. Often have I waxed poetic about “strange-flavored chicken” or “sweat and sour pork”. So when this article appeared the other day, I was overjoyed to [...]

Two weeks ago, I woke up on a couch in North Carolina to this:
It’s a sculpture, made entirely out of trash, constructed by the brother of this man. This man’s brother no longer makes art, which is a shame, because this sculpture (nearly life-sized in real life, not small-sized like here) was a hell of [...]

So the Tunnel Rats (or whatever they’re called) don’t even really exist yet, but it won’t be long, really. First, I’m due out of town for a while. First down south to the Charlotte crew, then out to La La Land with Matt and Rob (formerly of Village Broadsheet fame, now getting famous in their [...]