Despite the wonders that are delivered by digital music today, sometimes I really miss lying on my back on a shag carpet, eyes closed, two huge stack speakers aimed at my head, listening to a quality vinyl record played over excellent analog equipment.
One day I wish to retire to a dictionary.
Sometimes I come untethered.
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Sir @ February 24, 2011 # 6 Comments
In an effort to plug myself back into the ‘write something other than the driest of scientific blah blah’ arena, I’ve decided to throw my hat into the ring with the talented folks at Indie Ink. The ring in which my hat now sits consists of a group of writers issuing challenges to one another [...]
Sir @ May 10, 2010 # 8 Comments
Now a few brief words about poutine and hostels. Gravy has always been my friend. Cheese, too. And the potato, that noblest of tubers, spoke movingly at my grandfather’s funeral. Taking all of this into account, I’d assumed it a foregone conclusion that placing these items together would inevitably result in something almost holy. In [...]
Sir @ January 26, 2009 # 15 Comments
The rules: 1. Leave me a comment saying you want to be interviewed. 2. I’ll email you five questions of my choosing. 3. You update your blog with the answers to the questions. 4. You offer to interview someone else in the same post. 5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask [...]
Sir @ August 13, 2008 # 15 Comments
O me. Thou art such a neglectful bastard! In my defense, the brain is being ground into mush by a combination of firehose-style learnin’ and numbing boredom during the aforementioned administration of the firehose. Worried about the prospect of not being able to match OSHA’s thunder during the first week, Biochemistry faculty spend the second [...]
Sir @ July 23, 2008 # 16 Comments
Whenever I’m deep in the stinking hot bowels of a big city, I find it necessary to focus my mind on something other than the mass of humanity populating the sidewalks that I’m trying to navigate. I do this to take the edge off of having to negotiate crowds of strangers, as this is probably [...]