I feel like the richest guy in the world today. I knew back in August that planting an old sweet potato was going to pay off: “Eventually,” I said, “new sweet potatoes will grow from those roots and I’ll be the sweet potato king of South Carolina.”
Welcome to the Sweet Potato Kingdom! Verily I say [...]
Today we’re serving up a hearty helping of Pandora, a free Internet radio station that uses the organizational magic of the Music Genome Project to help you build customizable radio stations for yourself (you do have to register to save your stations…I’ve received no spam or other unsolicited mailings from the service).
It’s a straightforward process: [...]
I’m a little behind on my reading lately. I’ve read quite a few books and that bothers me because the important stuff is piling up. I’m talking about my Entertainment Weekly and New York magazine subscriptions.
Yesterday afternoon I read Stephen King’s December 7 EW column about his favorite music of 2007. I like Stephen King. [...]
First, the results from last week’s contest.
Our winner is Jam Master Jay, with the correct answer of “Eddie Vedder, Life Wasted, Johnny Ramone.” It may appear to astute readers that Ms. MoodyTunes provided the first correct answer but I was forced to disqualify her from this particular competition due to how many times I’ve pointed [...]
Astronomy Pictures of the Year for 2007.
Amazing. I wonder how they create all those images? I mean, surely there isn’t a great big universe out there? They probably use the same studio that made the moon landing look so authentic.
I didn’t post anything yesterday. That broke a streak of 20 straight days of content. I’m not sure it was all worthwhile, but it certainly came out in one of my more productive creative spells this year (not just online but in my print writing life…applications, preparing for submissions, classes, etc.). I have to say, [...]
Tagged WordsI woke up after the initial Christmas Eve Peep assault and found myself tied to a chair in my guest room. Fortunately, I was bound with silly string (Peeps never are the brightest captors) and broke loose after an hour or so of trying. I crept downstairs to find the gang relaxing and shooting the [...]
Tagged FoodI’m not going to lie — it was a strange weekend. I couldn’t sleep, my tinnitus drove me two steps closer to insanity, and the gray, damp weather kept me inside. I was hoping to make this the third Monday in a row with some nice photos but resigned myself to breaking the streak with [...]
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