Archive for December 2005

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone takes it easy tonight, go wherever you are going and stay there. Don’t drive home, even if you’re sober. The drunk drivers always make it out of a wreck unscathed, it’s everyone else who ends up maimed or killed. You know I’m right.
So..
I’m not normally the type to make New Year’s [...]

Look What I Made For You in Shop Class!!

It’s Kim’s birthday and we took a few stupid pictures tonight. Her real family celebration is on Friday (her dad worked tonight) so my parents hauled us off to the finest eating establishment one can hope to be treated to on their birthday: That’s right, we went to Fuddruckers. I don’t eat burgers all that [...]

Forced Insomnia / Norfolk Coffee and Tea Co.

I hate going to bed and I hate getting up. Obviously, my life is a mess.
On a related note, last week Relative Dave tipped me to Norfolk Coffee & Tea Co. and now I have yet another fine local shop from which to purchase quality coffee beans. Apparently this shop has been on 18th St. [...]

Listening

Sometimes as a music teacher, one finds themselves falling into the familiar pitfalls of their students. I am the worst offender of the “do as I say, not as I do” teaching philosophy. I am trying hard to overcome my personal hang-ups in order to be more of the “lead by example” type of instructor, [...]

Spit Years

I stopped in Relative Theory for the first time in a couple of weeks to check out their polaroid gallery entitled “The Spit Years.” This gallery is a collection of polaroids taken since the store’s opening, featuring the “scene kids” of the store’s “punk house” years (thats my description, not theirs). I don’t know if [...]

Oreo Jingle

One of my best friends from college, Chris Chatham, is a member of an a cappella group called Blue Jupiter. They have been struggling for a few years now with line-up changes and typical band problems. Chris is among the most gifted and talented musicians I know, and may very well be the most gifted [...]