A quick post from Stowe, Vermont, where it’s currently snowing. Spent a lovely day on the slopes – a bit painful with the new boots, but that’s the usual song-and-dance with new stuff. But the conditions were excellent. Saw a fellow Conn alum while shopping in town a while ago – same class year, too. …
I hope yours is merry, safe and joyous! I leave you with the lyrics to my favorite modern Christmas song: “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon. (Happy Xmas Kyoko Happy Xmas Julian) So this is Xmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this …
Heading north for a week. Not much more to say than that, right now. I hope that DC has a good Christmas, one free of anything too weird.
And they meant a lot to me, but for different reasons. First, there’s Patches. He was an undersized, gray and white cat who was born during the summer between my junior and senior years of high school, back in 1990. His mother was a feral cat who adopted us (isn’t that always the case?), and …
As I get ready to post a review of a cool, bike-oriented gadget, I point to this wonderful, does-it-all computer for the bike: the Cerevellum Bike Computer. Sure, it costs as much as a laptop, but it has features: the usual speed, distance and time, as well as a GPS, elevation gain/loss, wattage produced, and …
Thanks to Sweetpea, I’m now reflecting on the Christmas traditions that make me smile. 1. Favorite Christmas cartoon: A Charlie Brown Christmas is my hands-down favorite. First of all, it’s the Peanuts gang, before they became all soft and PC. Secondly, the soundtrack by the Vince Guaraldi Trio is great jazz music that happens to …
Hmm…. perhaps I need to evaluate my life. You Are Eggnog Rich, sweet, and probably a little drunk. Everyone who knows you tends to get a little fatter. What Holiday Food Are You? So…. there ‘ya go. Tip ‘o the Santa cap to Roly and sprite for this one.
Or are most modern pop and R&B stars incapable of simply hitting a note and holding it? Or are they hiding their inability to do so in a sea of melisma? Seriously: why do primal songs – “Over The Rainbow” and “As Time Goes By,” among others – need to be doctored by a modern …
OMG!!! SNOW IS COMING!!! PANIC!!! PANIC!!! PANIC!!! Quick – everybody raid the stores for all the bread, milk and toilet paper you can stockpile!!! I’M SERIOUS HERE!!! SNOW = THE APOCALYPSE!!! ACK!!! (For those who don’t live in DC, this is the typical reaction to a prediction of accumulating snow, which is in the forecast …
Want to see ‘em? Go here, to my more politically-oriented site. Heading in to 2008, that’s where I’ll post my political opinions. (And yes, I’ll build a link off of this site soon.)
