I don’t want to know my neighbors.  I don’t want them dropping by for a cup of sugar, to bullshit, to ask me favors I don’t want to do.  Move their cars when they’re away in the U.K.  A next door neighbor actually asked me that.  And you’re afraid, if you don’t do this…  Then […]

Tony Dimitriades sent me watermarked CDs, warning me they might not work in every player. That’s an understatement.  They froze my Mac.  Well, not the whole computer, just the disc drive, it was completely dead.  But helping a friend with this exact problem the week before, I knew there was a solution.  A bit of […]

I drove through a can of paint. Well, not exactly.  Someone else hit the can, I just drove through the detritus and told myself I was paranoid, that it was already dry, it wouldn’t stick to my car. But I was wrong. As soon as I got to a residential neighborhood, I pulled over, and […]

1. Jay-Z "Blueprint 3" Sales this week: 475,670Debut That’s a fuck of a lot of records. But still not as many as the boy bands sold at their peak almost a decade ago. Sure, piracy is a factor, but it’s a fallacy to believe it’s the major factor.  When ‘N Sync was selling two million […]