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another oldie from the vaults, written when I seem to have been feeling a bit bitter about a (then still living) family member… Rough and rowdy ways? I can hear the stubies tumbling around the flat wooden top, rolling to the floor as I suspect that you would also, once enough have wobbled across this…Read more

Once I became adultish, meaning early 20’s, I looked back a bit at some things that I seem to have missed and looked at other steps that others had made and came up with a grand generalization about myself regarding, oh I don’t know how to put it. Something. Anyway, it was that I always…Read more

No. 29. Morphine, Like Swimming. Another band that I did not like at first. Back in the 90’s, someone at work used to play Cure For Pain every morning and I just hated it! (How tiring it was to always be so reactionary and hostile about things)… Of course, soon I took a liking to…Read more

No. 30, #violentfemmes s/t. Man, I hated this album when I first heard it. Not surprising because I was adrift in the waters between Judas Priest and Mercyful Fate at the time. Then in ’85 a friend of mine was singing one of the songs and as soon as I listened to the words, I…Read more

Doing a little Instagram series on my top 30 scrobbled albums of the last ten years, maybe as well cross post here… #TenYearTop30 Two big things happened at the end of 2008, one was that I moved from Oregon to Vermont (ending my days of sitting at work listening to Black Metal and Noise Rock),…Read more

So often times I think of, or should I say that it jumps out at me about the differences between progressives and conservatives. Obviously there are many, but the ones that always seem remarkable to me are the ones that exemplify the names: progressive (progressing towards something) and conservative (conserving something). I think it’s rather…Read more

After spending many years reading (and repeatedly trying to write) blogs, a few years ago I seem to have forgotten about them. In their heyday (for me) I would write in my blogs, follow others blogs, look for interesting new blogs, even read some LiveJournals! Now? Not so much. I suspect that, like maps, phone…Read more

I find that the nature of work is thus: come up with something that needs to be done (or have something presented to you) begin work on it and then either hit a road block or be called away. Hopefully, at some point, you complete each thing and move on, only to have the need…Read more

Alas, my “year of low employment and child-rearing” turned out to be not a year. More like 7 months. The place I was low-employed created a position that I couldn’t really back away from. And, due to a variety of factors, they weren’t interested in filling the position 6 months down the line… So I…Read more