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Continue reading →: Madame Bovary (1949)
My younger kiddo is reading “Madame Bovary” for high school lit, so we decided to watch the movie last night. Turns out that’s a tougher decision to make than you might think, as it’s been adapted lots of times, a 2015 version, a 1991 version, a TV version in the…
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Continue reading →: Buying merch
I’m in Charlotte tonight for The Mountain Goats / Craig Finn / Bully show (which I’ll post about over the weekend), but I was thinking about all of the ways that the venue and the artist make money, and where the real money probably is. There was probably more that…
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Continue reading →: Ready to run again
Being sick, I haven’t run for a week, which is the longest I’ve gone without in a long time. Probably since I had Covid in August of 2022. Heck, I’ve barely been outside in the last week, owing in part to my cough and also to the bitter cold we’re…
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Continue reading →: Craig Finn show on Thursday
Headed up to Charlotte on Thursday to see Craig Finn and Bully open for The Mountain Goats. I’ve seen Finn with The Hold Steady numerous times (er, like six times last year, but who’s counting) but this will be my first solo show. I was supposed to see him in…
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Continue reading →: The Lost Weekend
I don’t get sick often — typically a once or twice-a-year head cold, maybe a cough or a raspy throat that gives me a cool voice. This weekend, though, the collective crud caught up with me. When I went to clear my throat late Friday night, my lungs made a…
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Continue reading →: Get the Paper(s)
Since I’m now older than Methuselah’s guest towels, it seems only reasonable that one of the highlights of my week is Sunday morning when I get to drink coffee and pore over my newspapers. Every Sunday I get the NY Times and the AJC, and I completely dig the sensory…
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Continue reading →: Stand in the place where you play
I bought an Asus ROG Ally in 2023 which, if you aren’t aware, is a Windows-based gaming handheld. It has a pretty crummy out-of-the-box experience, which I think has hampered its uptake, as it’s a very capable, powerful system for handheld gaming and some light productivity on the go. Maybe…
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Continue reading →: Seasonal ineffective disorder
I hate being cold, so this is what I generally consider my Cranky Era of any given year. Looking ahead at the forecast, we’ve got lows in the teens next week so I’m not going to want to do much of anything. But I’m trying. I’m determined this year to…
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Continue reading →: This week in terrible ideas: the smart fridge
I was at Home Depot tonight getting a new fire extinguisher (because my stove apparently has a short and nearly caught fire) and some spigot covers for the impending subzeropocalypse in Atlanta next week, and a refrigerator caught my eye for two reasons. One, it’s $3,500, which is kind of…
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Continue reading →: Fretboard Forever
I’ve been trying to learn all of the notes on the guitar fretboard, and of course it looks like I’ve been doing things the hard way. I found a supposedly foolproof method (“only five minutes a day!”) that I started today, along with a really nice web app that’s meant…
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