It’s funny sometimes when I sit down to write a blog. It’s as if this screen is giant canvas, empty of anything, waiting to be created. I think about the people I see in my travels; the people who work for me at our businesses, all with the details of […]
Twenty-one guitars can make an impressive variety of sounds. We watched Peter Blanchette direct his Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra tonight, and enjoyed the rich tones and deep contrast of different sounds this group of guitarists made up on the Academy of Music stage. It wasn’t a show full of solos, […]
In the abyss, as my backpack is not-s0-affectionately known, I’ve been toting an article around for a few days from the WSJ. It was about how despite all of the advances in medicine and technology in fifty years of progress, more than half of all the pregancies in the US […]
We have new ads on GoNOMAD that fork over to a whole bunch of cool websites, including Listverse. Here’s a great new post about a private part of Disneyland. “Contrary to popular belief, Disneyland has a full liquor license which is used when the place closes down to the general […]
I’m excited today after a meeting with a charismatic radio personality named Monte Belmonte. Over the past few months we’ve been developing different ideas to bring our travel website to the airwaves. Most of the suggestions I brought up were complicated, involving guests, remote broadcasts, and recordings of sounds […]
The second episode of the new HBO series ‘Treme’ continued to compel me last night. There are so many plots happening yet each one is as interesting and realistic as the other. But I wondered about how true it was that a man standing outside a nightclub who gets caught […]
Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story provided entertainment yesterday afternoon but left us shaking our heads. The message? I think he wants us to rise up and stop banks from foreclosing on people who haven’t paid their mortgages, stop the cabal from Goldman Sachs from running the government, and oh, […]
Greenfield is coming along very well, I read in a recent Recorder story by Ritchie Davis. He’s right, there’s a whole new movement up in that city, and when the people behind Amherst and Northampton Coffee set up shop, well gentrification is happening full speed ahead. I think it’s a […]
Last night the airspace above five European countries was blocked by thick clouds of ash spewing from a volcano in Iceland. On CNN, the story recounted what happened back in 1982 when a British Airways pilot had to fly through thick ash and smoke above Indonesia. “Eric Moody was the […]
I have a terrible feeling that one of my favorite TV shows has jumped the shark. That can happen when characters that people really like turn out to be jackasses who annoy you, instead of make you laugh. Tonight’s episode of “Modern Family” tipped right over into sharkville, when both […]
In last weeks’ WSJ, a story was illustrated with people who had fallen down drunk on the road, and was about a statistic that bodes badly for the future of the United Kingdom. Despite years of the rate of drunkenness falling in other European countries and in the US, in […]
Erik Felton wrote a column a few days ago that stuck with me. It was about two men, and how vastly different they are– differences that have as much to do with the cultures of today and of yesterday as the men themselves. Leonard Slatkin was recently driven out of […]