February 22, 2026 How many unread emails do you have in your inbox?  Some believe you can tell a lot about a person based on this figure.  Sure, I’ll bite:  If it’s in the hundreds or even thousands, does it mean that we’re lazy or that we’re just too busy doing actual stuff to be…

February 15, 2026 Is music getting worse?  This is the question that every person of a certain generation faces once they reach the age where their “shit isn’t cool” anymore.  This realization occurs around the same time they notice that somebody much younger than them doesn’t understand real music, because they’ve never truly listened to…

January 25, 2026 Ever think of your living body like an automobile?  You know, the older we get, the more shit starts to fall apart on us, so we sputter on into an expert who is qualified to tell us: “well, if it ain’t the ignition switch, it might be the starter, or could be…

January 11, 2026 “Wow. That is the best painting I’ve ever seen.”  As parents, when we speak these words to our 4-year old who’s holding up a piece of paper with a bunch of scribbles and lines on it, some might argue that we’re lying to them.  In this case, we’re just propping up their…

December 28, 2025 On the album Funeral by Arcade Fire, the opening track entitled “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)” has a beautifully interesting line toward the end of the song:        “Sometimes we remember our bedrooms, and our parents bedrooms and the bedrooms of  our friends…”    I’m not exactly sure what the artist’s intentions were when they penned…