Get ready for something pretty dang brilliant. One week from today, Kat & Curt’s TV Re-View is launching, and you’ll want to be there to see it (er, hear it) take off. Maybe I should back up. A few months ago, I was having a conversation with fellow Mythgardian Kat Sas about some of our … [Read more…]
Having waited a week after the raucous manhunt for the Boston marathon bombers, I had been planning to write about militias and gun-related laws in Massachusetts, based on some commentary I had seen flit across my Facebook feed. But it seems something much more important has cropped up to discuss at this particular moment in … [Read more…]
It’s no secret that Sirsy is my favorite indie band. I’ve been following them for about three-and-a-half years now, and their latest album, Coming Into Frame (my review), is the first album of new material that they’ve released since I first saw them in 2009. I’m excited for the band because since their album came … [Read more…]
It’s no secret that I am a huuuuge fan ofSirsy. So, what I’m about to say may come as a shock: I love their new album. (Perhaps I need to work on my shocking skills…) Coming Into Frame is Sirsy’s fifth studio album, and their first under the Funzalo Records label. It’s also their first … [Read more…]
Published in the April 2013 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact. What happens when first contact with a feather-bedecked alien species kidnaps welfare-recipient Dana Brooks and her children, then subjects them to moderate psychological examination using English learned from TV before benevolently returning them three days later? There’s no point in warning about spoilers … [Read more…]
A year ago, I outlined the concept of New Day Resolutions. I am still trying to follow the idea of resolving what I will do today, rather than what I will do over the next year. Am I always successful? Some days are better than others. However, there are definitely things I look forward to doing … [Read more…]
Things happened this year. Some of them are listed here. Big Stuff In early October, my cousin was involved in a horrific car accident. Thankfully, he survived and is now at home, but still has a lot of recovery ahead. At the end of February, I stopped working at Bank of America after 12 years. … [Read more…]
Anyone who knows me saw this coming twelve parsecs away. Sirsyis an amazing two-member band from Albany, NY, who is going to take the world by storm in 2013. You’ll want to know them before their next CD hits, so you can get the cushy seats on the bandwagon before it fills up even more. … [Read more…]
I’ve been contemplating a concept for awhile now that I call “mesotheism” – that is, a middling belief in an overarching spiritual power, which many people call “god.” The idea is that there is a valid positive belief somewhere between theism and atheism that isn’t due merely to confusion, weak will or apathy. Some people … [Read more…]
Three years ago today, I walked into the Westcott Theater in Syracuse, NY, and discovered one of the awesomest bands around. That band is SIRSY. Since then, I’ve seen at least fifty of their shows (mostly in the Syracuse area), and they’ve even deigned to call me friend. On the occasion of my third Sirsy-versary, … [Read more…]