Last night, after a pan-cultural Sunset Park dinner experience of vegetarian Malaysian (huge chunks of tofu satay stuffed with shredded cucumber and sprouts and topped with a spicy curry peanut sauce) followed by ices from the Puerto Rican ice shack, Liz and I headed back to her place to listen to some country music and [...]

It seems that I’ve opted out of illegal file-sharing just in time, as the RIAA has sent out nearly one thousand subpoenas over the last four weeks to people suspected of illegally sharing music over the Internet.
“They could have used some other way to inform people than scaring the bejiminy out of them,” said a [...]

For a moment there was a large blank space here at Gritmedia where my weblog normally resides. Its vast whiteness frightened me. But then I realized that I hadn’t written in over a week and, well, that explained it all. Movable Type was just doing its job, refreshing the page as usual.
Speaking of, MT has [...]

I think I will descend directly into hell for enjoying things such as this.

My cats are two years old today. I freaking love them.
Yes, I am aware that this posting of cat images will forever assign me to “cat lady” status.

The new Liz Phair album is awful. Awful. It is Avril Lavigne.
Thank god there are clips and videos from her past albums at her website to soothe legions of disappointed fans.
One night in 1993 I dubbed “Stratford-on-Guy” off WRHU and bought the disc at The Wall the next day. I was a sophomore in [...]

I was beginning to look forward to this summertime’s recreational goodness. Of course, looking forward to things is one way of ignoring the fact that I’m ridiculously bored right now. In August, as is tradition, my family will be renting a house on the beach at the New Jersey shore. For a week, various permutations [...]