Archive for March 2012

Everything’s Better with Friends

God, that was fun. I couldn’t have asked for a better Saturday. It started when The Big M took the Boy garage sale-ing. For $6 they picked up a really cool record collection from the 1940’s put in the World War II-era version of a CD storage case. Then our college friends Bill and Sylvia came to spend the day with us. We got to catch up, our kids got […]

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Hi-ho, triple salchow

So The Big M and I went to SXSW. I am 22 months shy of my 40th birthday and I still have all of my teeth, so while I’m not *empirically* an old person, I’m old for hanging out outside of Antone’s on a Tuesday night during the biggest music festival probably anywhere. I had a few contemporaries around me, but still. A little incongruous with my stray gray hairs […]

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12 Things I’ve Been Doing in 2012

Not blogging, obviously. 1) Listening to music. Current mix I’ve made and listened to a dozen times or more: Ultra Violet (Light My Way) — The Killers cover U2 The Dead Dog — Portugal. The Man. They Done Wrong/We Done Wrong — White Rabbits Apartment — Young the Giant Felicia — The Constellations Honest — Band of Skulls I Would Do For You — Slightly Stoopid Lasso — Phoenix Cough […]

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