We went to see Neko Case on Friday night in Tarrytown. Eric Bachmann opened for her. It was an excellent show and just reaffirmed my giant heart for Neko Case, the fact of which made Sarah feel less like a spazz. Which, admittedly, was a good reason for me not to have told her…
The theater [...]
In a seasonally-unprecedented move (at least for a good long time), I have been digging me some songs–not compositions, not improvisations–actual, honest-to-goodness songs. Lots of good old Dischord bands, Smart Went Crazy, Lungfish, Shudder to Think as well as the golden age of mid-90s midwest indie rock–Rodan, June of 44, you know, that sort of [...]
Forever-love for Agent Cooper notwithstanding, my heart is broken.
It is Regents week for New York State, which means testing, testing, testing for the kids and lounging about bitching and wisecracking for the teachers. My particular schedule yesterday kept me in the school until 7pm last night. It’s not natural for anyone to [...]
Jeff got the gold edition of “Twin Peaks” for Christmas, along with a crapload of other box sets (who are This Heat anyway?), and we have been enjoying it quite a bit. Jeff has been enjoying “Twin Peaks” for a number of years now. I myself watched some of it with Pinzler back in the [...]
Inside the new Tom Cruise biography: Slate gets to the good stuff.
And, in case you were wondering what a Thetan does after death, here’s the straight poop from its Wikipedia page:
When a person dies – or, in Scientology terms, when a thetan abandons its physical body – they go to a “landing station” on the [...]
And for something entirely off the track of what this blog-thing is usually about.
I really enjoy swimming. It’s really the only form of exercise that isn’t soccer that I’ve ever enjoyed. I don’t like running, I don’t like lifting weights. I guess I like riding a bike, but not in a way that would count [...]
Jeff and I for the first time are truly following a presidential campaign. We think part of the reason this is the first we’ve followed is simply that we were too young/in college the last time this happened. By “this” I mean simultaneous Republican and Democratic races for the party nomination. I think this [...]
First blog post of the year–it’s hard to believe that we’ve been doing this thing (at times painfully sporadically) for a year or so. Dang. It has been quite a ride the last couple of months: we have gotten a little bit used to sarah teaching and made our peace with being truly adult with [...]
“Michael Pollan, I really do enjoy that Michael Pollan teeters on the edge of being a douchebag for me. But he really hasn’t gone over the edge yet. For me.” -Jeff Boyle, on Michael Pollan’s shortlist of book and music recommendations for Borders. Admire it here. Truly, go look. It includes Walden and Neil Young’s [...]
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