I spent the better part of a week working on what I thought was going to be this week’s blog. I had a subject, a topic, something that had been happening lately in my life. It was a nothing sort of an event, but also seemed like the type of thing that could be use… Continue reading June 24, 2019
June 17, 2019
This past week, I had a bonus day off. One of my co-workers is going out of town and wanted to pick up an extra shift, and since it would be a short one, i.e. not worth my time breaking up my day for a few hours and dollars, I let him take it. I… Continue reading June 17, 2019
June 11, 2019
A couple weeks back, I wrote about being at the barber shop and overhearing one of the other barbers talk about some art she was going to buy when she thought it was $20, but passed when she found out it was $50. That led me to think about how we determine the value of… Continue reading June 11, 2019
June 3, 2019
Last week, I wrote about the value of art, and how deciding what something is worth tends to be about as subjective as it comes. The fact that most of us are familiar with the phrase “One person’s junk is another person’s treasure” illustrates just how true it is. Thinking about that, I was reminded… Continue reading June 3, 2019
May 28, 2019
I have never been a fan of the chit-chat chatter that happens when you get your hair cut. This isn’t something new, a quirk developed from spending forty hours a week for twenty years making small talk with customers; even as a child I remember thinking “What do I have to talk to this adult… Continue reading May 28, 2019
May 24, 2019
I started reading the Beastie Boys Book the other day (highly recommended if you’re a fan, or even if you want some insight into the music scene in NYC from the late 1970’s into the 1980’s and beyond,) and I got to the part where they talk about their first single, from 1983, called Cookie… Continue reading May 24, 2019
May 11, 2019
It’s embarrassing now to admit that the first time I heard the song “Hazy Shade of Winter,” it wasn’t the original but the cover by the Bangles for the movie “Less Than Zero.” It made sense back then; it was 1987 and Simon and Garfunkel were the farthest thing from my mind musically. I was… Continue reading May 11, 2019
April 22, 2019
I don’t much follow the WNBA. I probably pay more attention to it than most non-fans, but one byproduct of being from where I am is that you can’t talk about women’s basketball for more than, oh, maybe ten seconds, before my home state gets invoked. Arguably the biggest reason I don’t follow it is… Continue reading April 22, 2019
April 8, 2019
I recently got rid of my premium Spotify account. I wish I could say I did it in solidarity with my musician friends and the absurdly low royalty rate that they get paid. (It’s something like less than half a cent a song, mindblowingly low. My guess – and it’s just that, a guess, I’m… Continue reading April 8, 2019
February 14, 2019
I want to talk to you for a few minutes about Pedro Morales. When I was a kid, my Saturday mornings were much like every other kid. An exception for me was that at 11am, the cartoons would switch from animated to live action in the form of professional wrestling. My father would watch with… Continue reading February 14, 2019
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