This is just a short one but around Thanksgiving, I walked into the gym just in time to hear the last chorus of ABBA’s classic single Dancing Queen . As I’ve said many times before, the gym I go to tends to have the worst music imaginable so I was disappointed I had missed perhaps [...]
 Ah, such fresh wounds with this one! While visiting my family in upstate NY, I came across an Australian foreign exchange student who, after graduating high school in Australia decided to come here to upstate NY for a year. She’s a really good singer and very friendly and I liked her immediately when she [...]
Last Friday, I had lunch after work at this place called The Soupbox, which is a local Chicago small business chain that sells some great both vegetarian friendly as well as non vegetarian soups. (In the summer, it turns into The Icebox and sells frozen fruit.) I was sharing an order of cream of broccoli [...]
The above little girl is not my baby. (At this point in my life, I don’t plan on having kids) It’s the newborn of my friend Michelle who I’ve had the pleasure of seeing quite often since her birth. She’s darling, especially when she’s fast asleep. This photo was taken a week ago from yesterday. [...]
I often get rather carried away when I talk about music I love, as if I have a difficult time really keeping myself in check and not rambling on for hours about certain musicians. I was already feeling a little caught up in excitement and melodrama last Friday while in Madison, Wisconsin to see DeVotchKa [...]
I’ll tell you what was awkward. Remember when Death Cab for Cutie wasn’t such an indie kid’s household name? I mean, there was a time before Plans and The Photo Album when very few people had even heard of Death Cab for Cutie. I was in university at the time and had heard a song [...]
I have the slowest metabolism in the world but that’s another story. Many of my awkward conversations about music occur around the gym basically because I have to work out five days a week just to keep relatively thin. The people who work the reception desk at Cheetah are incredibly nice, patient, and tolerant. Ever [...]
Note: I didn’t take the above picture. It was found on their webpage . I was at the Metro on Wednesday night to see Robyn Hitchcock (who I promise to blog about next week) and had moved away from Cinchel and Robert to secure a spot I thought would be better for photos. There was [...]
I had to share this because I was all set up for disaster. A couple of weeks ago, I was at the vet picking up food for my cat Buckley (named after Tim and Jeff) who cannot eat regular cat food because of a prior urinary tract infection. I’ve had several bad experiences at my [...]
I haven’t done my awkward conversations about music thing in awhile and I’ve had one stored up this whole time. It happened when I returned from work in September. There were conferences in the beginning and on a lunch break, some people I work with and I went to a Mexican dive nearby. Now, I [...]