What Were They Doing on Saturday Night?
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 […]
The Sound of 21 Guitars
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, […]
There’s a Vas Deferens Between Us, He Told Me
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 […]
All It Says on the Door is ’33’
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 […]
Telling Stories about Travel on the Radio…It Works!
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 […]
Caught with a Roach, He Gets Cuffed and Thrown in a Cruiser
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, Just What DO You Want Us to Do?
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 and Turners Are the Up & Comers of the Valley
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 […]