After posting this about Devyn Rose’s new video “Want It All” I prepared to move on to the next pack of songs in my inbox, leaving Devyn behind until her next batch of music comes out. Unfortunate, yes, but that is the name of the blogging game. A fun fact sent my way by Devyn’s press agent, Sarah, made me slow down for just a [...]
The new single from Astronauts, etc is called “Coldboy.” It is a hypnotic upbeat foray into the world of electronic pop. It is what would happen if MGMT and Passion Pit decided to put on a dance part smack dab in the middle of a terrible blizzard. During “Coldboy”, Astonauts, etc’s last single before the release of his LP in August (which will be all brand [...]
Before I give you a brief history lesson I have to mention, this is sort of a bitchy dish. Back in November I cooked up this compromise and exuded about it in a playlist. I then moved on to other foods, the holidays, life stuff. Unfortunately, like a spoiled brat, this posole would not let me live a day without reminding me that I had [...]
Lady Gaga once compared jet lag to a bad batch of shrooms. To that I laugh and say “Gee, it must be nice to suffer from jet lag.” I mean some of us here in the middle class can’t afford to fly our wives, dogs, skis, guns, golf clubs and luggage north for the holidays. So we make a sixteen hour drive instead. Give me [...]
Yesterday was J-Fur’s birthday so I spent my time making one of her favorite dishes, rotelle primavera with green beans, and baking a cake. Her desired cake was this Hershey’s recipe (which I halved). I threw it into three small round pans and baked it for about 20 minutes. The result was a triple layer skyscraper of a cake. There was no vegan magic performed. [...]
There was a time when we did things just for fun. That time can sometimes seem so far, especially on nights that you sit in a boardroom and listen to people argue about your worth, your health and your livelihood. I went into teaching not because I can’t (as the old saying goes) but because it was something I am passionate about. I wake up [...]
I’m not Italian. I’m also not a big fan of processed foods. This makes carbo loading for a half marathon a pretty dull thing. I beat the doldrums for a while by changing up the sauces I used. When that started to grow stale, I experimented with the types of vegetables and flavors that I worked around the pasta. But after 17 weeks these too [...]
I arrived home the other day with a huge box waiting on my doorstep. It was way too big to include a record so I knew it wasn’t anything I had purchased. I laid it on the table and went about an evening training for my upcoming half marathon. When I arrived back home after the run, the box was empty (except for a cat) [...]
There’s a clip at the end of NOFX’s 1997 album So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes where the band is played on the Howard Stern show. Stern cuts off the song as soon as Fat Mike starts singing and says something along the lines of What is this? The producer replies “NOFX.” Stern plays that in his mind a few times, thinking up a [...]
