One major event I forgot to mention in my previous post about the people I encounter at Hartford is one of much significance: Friday’s Open Mic Night. A night filled with 60s-80s folk and pop songs performed by people who should never, ever sing in public and really awful poetry.
Some of you may have [...]

As with many jobs in the service industry, you deal with some strange people. Many of my tweets lately have reflected such weirdos that enter Hartford Coffee Company and the weird things they do. These weirdos have nicknames, but I realize after receiving a few responses from some of you that you don’t [...]

I found today’s song review, first of hopefully many, on NPR’s SXSW mix page. The page allows you to stream over a hundred artists that played SXSW last week, and download some of the songs. Actually, quite a few of them. About 30 or so, but who’s counting, right? One of [...]

While browsing one of my favorite, funny websites at work this morning I came across an image that is similar to a few I found last week and blogged about here. While this picture of the “still loading” cat reminds me of blurry, fuzzy, incomplete jpeg images files of yester-internet-year, I also think of [...]

My initial response to hearing that U2 had a new album coming out in a few weeks was “Oh, that’s cool I guess.” After giving it a listen through I still feel the same way. No Line on the Horizon is pretty similar to what U2 has done since 2000’s All That You [...]

I read two articles at Gizmodo while browsing my RSS feeds this afternoon. This first of the two is about a biker whose protective helmet is painted to look like a Lego biker’s helmet. You know, red helmet with a “clear” visor revealing the yellow, smiling face of our Lego man. Here’s [...]

Upon finishing New Brunswick, New Jersey Goodbye on Saturday, I think I’m glad I read it. I like that I was immersed in another’s experience of punk rock, and I liked the description of the New Brunswick scene, although it was minute. I also would have loved a companion CD with the book of [...]

This comment is in response to the site Hot Chicks with Douchebags and their HCwDB of the week:
Today’s weekly is a bit more difficult than previous weeks for sure, as mentioned throughout these comments.  But the trained bag hunter must always be mentally consulting his ‘bag checklist for the scrotest of the scrote.  With that [...]

Mark!
Thanks for your email.  Justin has been on my mind almost every day in the past few months.  I am so grateful to have known him and the rest of you, Chesnuts.  I have two things to share.  The first is an article I wrote for the Papyrus that was printed a week after Chester [...]