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.
Sir @ November 19, 2009 # 12 Comments
The dogs’ daily schedule begins with me waking up early, letting them out, going to the gym, coming back, walking them, feeding them, then walking to the hospital to selflessly battle various causes of pain and woe in the world, etc. When the weather is nice, as is luckily enough the case most of the [...]
Sir @ November 11, 2009 # One Comment
The original site of the old state arsenal in Lexington, VA, is marked by a sentinel box in the middle of VMI’s old barracks courtyard, which has appropriately enough always been a site of massive fires and the frequent detonation of improvised explosives. On this day 170 years ago, Private John Strange became the first [...]
Sir @ November 2, 2009 # 11 Comments
Last night while walking the dogs, I saw this dude of East-Asian descent out for his nightly exercise, which consisted of plastering a very stern look on his face and walking briskly while swinging his arms in vertical 180-degree arcs. The sight held me in a trance and bothered the dogs enough to make them [...]