Headed out to our local killer Mexican joint in a bit. Looking forward to it. Barack Obama had a moustache giving his speech in Egypt—thin, but there. I believe that makes him the first president with facial hair (in public, anyway) since Taft. David Carradine has died at 72, apparently by hanging and not the … Read more
Dad, Nathan, and I went to see Star Trek at the Spacedome IMAX theater tonight. We’d all been looking forward to it for a while, but I’m not an opening weekend kind of guy, so we waited a few weeks while the crowds thinned. Mission accomplished: there were perhaps two dozen other attendees. Unfortunately, at … Read more
MTV was a boon for many artists when it appeared and proceeded to completely dominate the music of the early to mid-’80s. What a wonderful new medium! Check out all of this exposure for all of these great artists! But its power was enough to destroy completely some ’70s hangers-on. Plenty of artists who had … Read more