I’ve done something I didn’t think I would be doing: I submitted a book proposal to a major publisher. Continuum Books publishes the successful 33 1/3 series, a line of books that provide in-depth reviews of landmark recordings. Big name albums, from Pet Sounds to Let It Be, Meat Is Murder to Harvest, have all …
A trip north to do cleanup has resulted in a delay of my CSS Reboot 2005 makeover. It will appear – just not quite yet.
Want to know more about Bush’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court? Check out these links: American Constitution Society U.S. News & World Report (right-leaning) ThinkProgress (left-leaning) Is That Legal? (right-leaning)
Up in Connecticut for the weekend, cleaning up the basement at sprite’s parents’ house. When we first moved to DC, we had to leave quite a bit of our stuff in Connecticut. In the nearly three years it has been at their house, it has been pared down in bits and bats. There have been, …
The temperatures around DC have dropped quite a bit. There are frost warnings. The morning sky is a deep shade of blue, with nary a scrap of haze in sight. The leaves on the trees range from summer greens to vibrant yellows, oranges and reds. Yup – it’s fall (or autumn for those in certain …
Arianna Huffington is an eloquent speaker and writer, and I see a lot of parallels between her and me: we’re both reformed conservatives, having realized the error of our ways and moved into the better side of the political spectrum. Her website is a treasure trove of good reading. While I don’t necessarily agree with …
This past weekend, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw accompanied U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on a tour of Alabama, her home state. At a University of Alabama football game, Mr. Straw was announced as being in attendance, confirming attendees’ suspicions about a “special visitor” in the crowd. However, even though he’d been announce by …
There’s been a bit of noise amongst fans of NBA basketball, the media, ethnologists, fashionistas, NBA players, managers and owners about a new dress code put in place by the NBA. Basically, it stipulates that players are to wear “business casual” attire whenever engaged in team or league business (other than when they are suited …
Activity: road cycling (on mountain bike) Location: Washington, DC > Bethesda, MD (Capital Crescent Trail) Distance: 15.9 miles Duration: 0:52 Weather: sunny, 63 degrees Avg HR: 151 (est.) Type: aerobic Been a while, hasn’t it? Well, this is my first official ride since the accident, and it couldn’t have come soon enough! The weather was …
This week marked the seaons premiere of Frontline, the long-running PBS news program. The topic for this week’s show: the ongoing torture scandal in the so-called “war on terror,” and Secretary of State Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s role in this obscene practice. The research that went into the episode is exhaustive, and the presentation is a …
