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 @ January 25, 2010 # 5 Comments
Gather together a group of neuroscientists and ask them to describe the brain and the majority of them will likely say something sterile and scientific like, ‘It’s a ball of goo held together by magic’. Ask the same question to a philosopher or a theologian and they may answer with something along the lines of [...]
Sir @ January 22, 2010 # 7 Comments
The Collective has asked yet another question, the answer to which requires more than a mere comment that would take up too much room in a comment section. The question: What are my guilty pleasures? I have only one that I can think of and I’m not even sure that it counts as a guilty [...]
Sir @ January 14, 2010 # 17 Comments
Those of you who get updates whenever I post something likely stood up, pointed at your computer, and screamed, ‘LIES!’, when you saw that I’d whipped something out on two consecutive days. Well, you owe your computer an apology, because in honor of the mad genius who came up with this idea, I’d like to [...]
Sir @ January 13, 2010 # 7 Comments
I generally give little weight to horoscopes, but I do know (thanks to a previous girlfriend who was buried forehead-deep in astrology) that I was born on the Capricorn-Aquarian cusp, relegating me to the burden of being some freakish goat/human hybrid. I’m a pretty open-minded dude where the heavens are concerned, so I give [...]
Sir @ January 6, 2010 # 10 Comments
Run at least one marathon I’ve long been sick of running simply for the sake of running. ‘But what about the health benefits?’, you ask. Whatever, yo. I need something more than health to motivate me in my quest for bad knees. I said ‘at least’ up there because here was my original thought: It [...]