I usually low-key it on this day, but things have changed so much for the better over the past few months, I’m in a pretty good mood. To celebrate, let’s do some St. Patty’s Day haiku! Ten o’clock meeting Wonder if they will care I Irished my coffee Shane McGowan’s teeth Do I have your […]
This week, people across the country will fill out brackets, maybe throw $5 or $10 into the hat and watch the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament with great interest. Office workers who have little to talk about at other times will commiserate over why someone was seeded 12th and the difficulty at paying attention to their […]
I know this might not sound too popular these days what with people trying to save money and find different ways to protect the environment, but I realized something last week. I love to drive. This is not really a new revelation. Because I commute down to Baltimore for work, I have understood my appreciation […]
I didn’t intend to go a whole week between posts. Really. I have lots of stuff to write about, but just never took the time. I finished a book this week and can opine on many other topics, but this is Friday so I feel obligated to post about the latest R.E.M. news which has […]
Next week, a very special event will take place in New York as at least 20 artists gather to honor R.E.M. with a tribute concert at Carnegie Hall. This is why the baby Jesus invented things like Bit Torrent and other file sharing programs. I cannot wait to hear what takes place. The lineup is […]
Yes, Disney has announced that there will be a sequel to High School Musical 3, the winner of this year’s Best Movie in The Brians. HSM4 will return to the roots of the franchise and debut on The Disney Channel just like the first two movies in the series. The release is planned for some […]
My daughter told me something last night that i simply could not believe. Daylight Savings Time starts on Sunday. Yep. The new law from last year or whenever pushed the date to the second Sunday in march. I hadn’t realized that was the date and totally didn’t notice that the second Sunday was so early. […]
Even if the news crossed the wires where you live, you might not have noticed. Randy Bewley died this week after suffering a heart attack while driving in Athens, Ga. Bewley was the co-founder and lead guitarist in the band Pylon, which inhabitated the same vibrant music scene as R.E.M. in the early 1980s. In […]
I made my first trip to one of Pennsylvania’s slots-only casinos last weekend. I made the hour-ish trek north of Harrisburg to visit Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course. The place had been open for a little more than a year, so my visit was long overdue. I hadn’t made it a priority, however, […]
Everyone remembers the “Miracle on Ice,” the night the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the heavily-favored USSR in the 1980 Winter Games. The 29th anniversary of that game passed on Sunday, but today is an anniversary just as or even more important. On Feb. 24, 1980, the U.S. rallied from a 2-1 deficit after two […]