Archive for August, 2008
Zune - Case Closed!
My recent 20 hour there and back journey to Virginia sealed the deal as far as my absolute and complete love for my 80gb Zune goes. To be able to listen that long to nothing but music I loved personally, without a single song repeated, was wondrous.
But there has been, since I first purchased my [...]
Faith or Racism?
I have been completely stunned by a response I got over the past couple of days regarding Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention on Monday night. The statement made, by someone I considered a friend, was so blatantly racist and inappropriate that it has changed my view of someone I considered a good, [...]
Deep Water
In 1968, the British news paper The Sunday Times proposed a non-stop solo sailing race around the world - something that had never been done before. The race offered a £5,000 prize for the fastest time, which was a good deal of money back then. Nine men came forward to accept the challenge. Each with [...]
Juliana Hatfield “How To Walk Away”
It’s almost impossible for me to imagine that 15 years has passsed since I first heard the great hooks in the track “My Sister” from the CD “Become What You Are” by Juliana Hatfield. I suppose it hardly helps that after so many years her fetching voice seems frozen in time - completely familiar, instantly [...]
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