It's been a while since I've been here. Life has been...unsettled at best for me over the time away.

I was more focused on my sports blog for a while during college football season and the summer run-up.

Also, personally I was going through some difficulty with getting my son assessed… Read full post »

"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." ~ Dorothy Parker

With all due respect, Ms. Parker, that's not entirely the case.

Let me go back in time and interview the 15-16 year old me watching the video below.

2010 me: "So, what do you think about the girl in… Read full post »

A song that is basically a sarcastic recitation from a book from the 1960s and a chorus mocking high school popularity?

I'm down.

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When I was growing up, this time of year (late April) was my favorite time of year. The weather was finally starting to stay consistent for spring. It was nearing the end of the school year, which was a relief.

Beautiful girls walking around without bulky winter coats and sweaters.

It… Read full post »

I’m not entirely sure of when the metamorphosis took place.

Perhaps the evolution was slowly occurring anyway and I just missed it happening.

It really started to hit me square on in the face early this year, though, that something had changed with the… Read full post »

Two things in the past two weeks have given me reason to think about something.

The first event was getting tagged in a picture on Facebook. This picture was taken sometime near the end of my undergraduate career one night at Booche’s in Columbia, Missouri. I’m standing with… Read full post »

I wanted to make this Music Monday a special dedication to two distinct populations.

I came across a CD I hadn't listened to in about two years the other day.

When the first single and title track from Green Day's September 2004 release dropped about two months before the re-election of… Read full post »

A bit late with the Music Monday today, and for that I apologize.

I have about three busy months each year: April, August and November.

The joy of working in higher education.

Blogging will continue to be light as I get through this month and off to vacation in May, but… Read full post »

There's a tradition at the end of the NCAA Tournament that after the national title game, a video montage is produced with the song "One Shining Moment."

Until this year, the singer was Luther Vandross, but tonight after the Butler Bulldogs/Duke Blue Devils play, the new One Shining Moment will debut… Read full post »

It's funny, but I grew up in New York City for the first 18 years of my life, and then spent the better part of the next ten years living in Midwestern college towns.

So when we relocated to Nevada, I found myself living in the suburbs. I'm still not completely… Read full post »

According to this article in the Los Angeles Times, Disney has decided to rework the classic fairy tale Rapunzel.

The movie, slated for release November 24 of this year, was originally going to be based on the actual classic fairy tale of the princess with the extremly long tresses being locked… Read full post »

Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

So true, so true. Especially in Washington, D.C.

While health care reform is slowly getting closer to being a done deal (thanks to the vote in the House last night), I can't help but continue to think about how cash does rule eveything around us:

Back in February, I posted a link to an article about people in Texas trying to rewrite the curriculum.

Well, they won (edited to pull out some significant points, but read the whole piece for the full efffect):

AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas… Read full post »

Considering the most recent controversy involving the ranting lunatic over at Fox News, Glenn Beck, I wanted to dedicate  song to him. This track from the Rollins Band's album Weight:

 It seems to describe him so well, doesn't it? Read full post »

Since last night was the airing of the 82nd annual Academy Awards, I wanted to shout out to the movie industry somehow.

So why not use the song that is played every Friday on ESPN 980's "The Tony Kornheiser Show" to introduce the movie review segment:

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In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Kim Elsesser, a research for the Center for Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, argues that since society has entered the 21^st century, the Academy Awards should consolidate the acting categories and remove all reference to gender.

Most… Read full post »

Last month I linked to an article about how some Texas extremists were trying to rewrite textbooks.

Over in Amarillo (home of the Big Texan, where if you eat a 72 ounce steak dinner in an hour, it's free) something much more insidious is taking place.

I'll let the… Read full post »

My blogging here is going to be sparse over the next few weeks as the day job and other writing projects are going to take up most of my time.

But I still feel the need to post a Music Monday to remember:

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I was making a couple of playlists in iTunes over the weekend and came across this song. I hadn't heard it in a couple of years (I have too many songs on iTunes) but hearing it instantly took my back to high school.

It also reminded me of the time when… Read full post »

Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan for providing the link to this Newsweek screed by Christopher Hitchens.

In his rant, Hitchens derides international sports for (apparently) breeding conflict and contempt around the world. Hitchens also rails against how sports dumbs down contemporary society and political… Read full post »

Since I don't have a regular blogging schedule set yet, I think I will start a new feature to end the week when I am able to.

We start the week with "Music Mondays."

We will end the week with the "Tworon of the Week."

According to Urbandictionary.com, a Tworon, "A… Read full post »

I think I hit my breaking point Tuesday evening when I was logging out of my Yahoo! email account and came across this headline:

"Palin, daughter lash out at 'Family Guy'"

That would be the tv show "Family Guy." The television show that Fox televison had so little faith in at… Read full post »

Today features a melancholy Music Monday, as Doug Fieger, lead singer of The Knack, died Sunday after fighting cancer for six years. He was 57.

"My Sharona," the band's biggest hit, is viewed by some folks as the song that killed disco. It was released in 1979 and spent six weeks… Read full post »

I was a jaded 15 or 16 year old when I wrote this song back in 1994 or 1995. I forget when I actually composed it. But it was no later than February 1995. I was single (as I was throughout my high school days) pining after a girl who wanted… Read full post »