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It’s a good news/bad news kind of day. The good news is that I am Philly Future’s new featured blogger; my reign of terror begins today with an interview in which I pontificate about the significance of weblogs. Thanks to the Philly Future team! The bad news is, of course, that our beloved South Eastern […]
Clair, resident Good Grief! heckler, asks about last week’s Gumby posts and wonders was I really out of town? Well, yeah, unless you know of a Philly In-N-Out Burger with palm trees in the parking lot. I was lucky enough to attend a Macromedia convention in Anaheim with about a dozen of my new, super-secret […]
Or maybe the buggy driver escaped via rollerblade. Thanks to Moon Pappy for scanning this article from the Lancaster New Era.
An exciting announcement from Bloodshot Records, a kick-ass label out of Chicago: they have just released For a Decade of Sin, a two-disc compilation that celebrates eleven years in the business. Forty-two songs of new and previously-unreleased material for $18. I have several Bloodshot compilations, including Down to the Promised Land, the five year anniversary […]
Finally, I finished Dave Eggers’ You Shall Know Our Velocity. Isn’t that a great title? The book is about two friends, Will and Hand, who embark upon a week-long trip around the world to give away $32,000. Why? Something about the recent loss of their friend Jack, who was killed when a trucker drove over […]