So my latest big project – other than engrossing myself with the ongoing soap opera that is the U.S. Presidential election – is clearing out about 1/2 acre of vines, dead branches and other eyesores in order to carve a simple nature trail through a mini-forest. My wife thinks I’m crazy, that I could be [...]

Most of the reviews I’ve read of Narrow Stairs, the new album from indie darlings Death Cab for Cutie, mention that it’s darker and more somber than their previous releases.
To that I say – Whaaa? That would imply that their earlier releases are more positive or happier. You can’t get any more depressing than “What [...]

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Okay, I know it’s bad to form first impressions. Sometimes you can be totally wrong about someone, analyzing a person based on their looks or the way they talk, and then realize that he or she is completely different – like Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers.
Here is a guy whose [...]