On Exaggeration

“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.” –E.M. Forster I came across the above quote a couple of days ago. Not sure what I…… Continue reading On Exaggeration

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Dan Mangan

We’ve been listening to a lot of Dan Mangan lately. His latest album “Nice, Nice, Very Nice” was released last year but we didn’t find out how good it is until recently. My first introduction to Dan Mangan was through a song called “Robots” which we practically listened to all summer. Troy and I like…… Continue reading Dan Mangan

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The Blurry Years

This past weekend I started manually re-posting blog entries from 2002 to 2004 that have been stuck on static pages for years into the current database system. Blog entries from 2004 — well, at least the ones with no dead links — are now in the system. I already started re-posting entries from 2003 but…… Continue reading The Blurry Years

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Some Random Thoughts

As soon as I wake up in the morning, I almost always have a really random thought pop into my head and I could never figure out what brought that on. (Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so random, would it?) This morning, my random thought was about a Canadian TV show we never watched called Da…… Continue reading Some Random Thoughts

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My First Book Cover

No, this is not going to be a self-congratulatory post about how a photo of mine got selected to be included in a book by an awesome group of photographers and writers called Utata that I’ve been a member of for years, nor is this about how somehow it ended up being on the cover…… Continue reading My First Book Cover