Electric Bass Instructor Available in West Ghent
I have over 15 years playing the electric bass, which includes 4 and 5 string as well as fretless instruments and a Bachelor’s of Music from Berklee College of Music. I am not a “failed guitarist.” I have been teaching privately for about 5 years, including teaching bass and [...]
Today I learned of the death of one of my high school teachers whom, over the years, has inspired me quite a bit as a musician and also as a music teacher. I hadn’t been in touch with him much, but I’d talked to him within the last few years when we were both teaching [...]
Last week Busch Gardens Europe announced the closing of the Big Bad Wolf roller coaster after 25 years of service after Labor Day of this year. The primary reason given has been that the Big Bad Wolf has “reached the end of it’s service life.”
Pretty lame excuse right?
Even Busch Garden’s powers-that-be have more or less [...]
I was sent this video by boxedcity.com/757/ with the challenge of reflecting on what this speech says about 757. I think the general design theory presented by James Knustler says a lot about how so many of my friends who’ve lived in Hampton Roads most of their lives simply feeling unwelcome and uninterested in their [...]
So there’s a lot that has been going on and I’ve blogged almost none of it. To start, Kim and I got married this last weekend. The weather was great the company was exceptional and the cake was effing delicious. Maybe Kim thinks differently, but the wedding, for me, wasn’t so important. I wanted us [...]
Unemployment is imminent, so I am looking for a new job
Getting married next month and I have a lot of stuff left to do
I have jury duty next month too.
I almost, finally, have all of the money I need for a new bass head but its going to have to wait because of item #1
Opting [...]
This is an old blog post that I decided to go back and update. Some of the ideas I expressed here have evolved since the first writing, so I wanted to reflect that. I’ve totally removed the bit about making organized practice routines because, as it occurs to me, they’ve never been so successful. I’d [...]
Stepped into this new cafe on Granby Street this morning. Nice place, decent coffee. Closes at 7PM, which doesn’t work for me at all. Too bad.
I can’t believe that Link has a fucking front page article about Furries. I can’t believe that Furries are becoming respected as a semi legitimate subculture. In the future, Link, when you’re at a loss for a cover story and you’re about to pick the dumbest fucking shit ever, just do the story about me. [...]
Kim and I walked around a bit tonight and observed how unbelievably tacky the rich assholes in this supposed cultural-center of Norfolk are. We wouldn’t live anywhere else, but I am getting a little tired of being stared at every time I walk past Amalfi. Shit.. I get stared at when I walk past the [...]
Kim and I went for a walk around MacArthur Mall tonight and she spotted a big ol’ sack of weed on the ground. Actually, she shouted “Is dat sum weed!!!” really loud and when I turned around I kicked it. There was quite a bit in there because it felt like I kicked a fucking [...]
I have been trying to get Kim to blog almost as long as I have been doing it myself. She is a wealth of knowledge about a broad range of topics and, I, being a believer in the power of the internet and of the free distribution of information, think her thoughts could be enlightening [...]
Dear Virginia Beach,
Stop acting like Norfolk is so fucking far away. You jerks drive to Greenbriar all of the time. It’s not like the Oceanfront and Kempsville are right next to each other either. Get over yourselves, come to Norfolk, I’ll buy you a coffee at Elliotts and we can drive through the bad neighborhood [...]
So we were stopped at a light on Military Highway and some bonehead with a sailor haircut, a bluetooth headset and a pasty white face in a late model Z28 is poised next to me. It’s one of those situations where you know what’s going to happen before it does. The car actually sounded and [...]
A co-worker took this photo in Town Point Park, at Harborfest, almost a month ago. I think the subject is a breathtaking example of what this city really is all about. Actually, I would go as far as to say that this photo deserves to be a part of a city wide campaign entitled:
NORFOLK, VIRGINIA [...]
