Archive for 2008/05


My Real Top 20

Harold alerted me to the back page of "EW", whereupon Stephen King holds forth on popular culture once a month. This week, he lists his REAL Top 20. Not what he thinks is hip, his posture for the community, which he recently did, but what his iTunes library says he played most. Pretty surprising. Especially […]

Trent’s Album

You want to hear about it from someone else. The first thing I do each morning isn’t read the newspapers, or surf the Web, I check my e-mail.  Oh, the first time through isn’t in depth, it’s a cursory survey, to see if there’s anything important, to take the TEMPERATURE!  And today’s review told me…Trent […]

Liberty City

Felice wants to buy a flat panel.  She was set on a Sony, but "Sound & Vision" said Samsung made the LCD with the best blacks.  So we drove down to Best Buy. We didn’t see a salesman and couldn’t make sense of the inventory.  I don’t want to buy what’s available in your store, […]

Restless In Mind

My iPod Nano only holds two gigs worth of music. Sometime two years ago, I synched it up with some smart playlists in iTunes, so I never know exactly what it’s going to contain. I just let it play. If I’m looking for something, it’s usually not there, after all, two gigs is just one […]