1985 brought 6th grade and my first visit to New York. It also brought a strange, seemingly alien visitor to my midst...   more »

This past Thursday I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth chiseled from my head. Literally. They were all sideways, ...   more »

If you would've told me when I was a kid in North Carolina that by adulthood all my family's non-Christmas ...   more »

Obviously, I haven't done the greatest job keeping my new year's resolution of updating the blog at least once a ...   more »

Here's to the opening band,
Who is so awful, they chase everyone out of  the club except the 6 they ...   more »

I've regaled you all already about how bad my memory is, and how absent minded and just plain scatterbrained I ...   more »

Somewhere in the pure randomness of half asleep thought, this came to me last night.

When he finally relieves the ...   more »

Here's some pictures I've taken recently.
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I don't think I've posted this before. Let me know if I have.   more »

Here's another strange phenomena that follows me around, this one in regards to television watching.

I rarely watch TV. I ...   more »

The music archive recently grew by 12 tracks, as I've been able to track down 2 lost recordings, and 4 ...   more »

I needed a month to think about it. But, I've come up with a set of goals and resolutions for ...   more »

So today I turned 35. I'm typing this post with my birthday present to myself. I got me one of ...   more »

"King (street) for a Day" and "Let's do the Time-warp" were also titles I considered for this article.

What an ...   more »

So, after a 5.25 hour delay, my flight finally departed San Diego. Of course, my connecting flight left without me. ...   more »

I'm coming to you live from SD international airport, where my flight has been delayed for more than 4 hours. ...   more »

That's a catalog photo of my new Olympus SP-560UZ digital camera. It's hard to use a camera to take a ...   more »

So, I'm thinking about entering the blog world.

Here is revisited a song I wrote with Kelley Mitchell back in ...   more »

In my post NaNoWriMo afterglow, which included an intense desire to do no typing whatsoever, I completely neglected to mention ...   more »

Ok, I did it. I wrote a friggin novel in November. Well, to be more precise, I wrote 50,000 words ...   more »

Yeah, I'm posting something. Rejoice. Forgive the lack of posts lately, but I've had to dedicate all my writing time to this novel monster. No, I haven't posted any excerpts from it yet. I don't know that I will, either, since it has turned out to be so godawful.   more »

The fires, at least the ones that were near me, are out or under control. Some of the fire to ...   more »

Like clockwork, 4 years to the week after huge portions of San Diego county burned up in a series of ...   more »