The home stretch. The middle four weeks gave us a Jazz/Funk quartets that likes to mix up covers, a child prodigy, musical LSD from one of the greats, and a powerful, solo piano performance. We are going to close with some legends, an artist who demands utter silence […]
For the first four weeks we visited modern jazz from a cornerstone of jazz music, one of the many seminal records of a jazz legend, the origins of thrash guitar, tucked inside a box of Latin inspired jazz fusion, and I avoided any further legal action from Mike […]
Thanks for sticking with me on this. If you are just checking out what the title means, I would direct you back to my first post, Jazz and the Sound of My Summer. Alright, now that everyone is caught up, I am going to talk a bit about […]
I have a love/hate relationship with social media. Part of me is fascinated by how connected we are as a global society. There are friends I have reconnected with and new friends that I likely would never had the opportunity to know (some of whom are indirectly responsible […]
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts A lot has happened since I walked out of the Westport Sheraton Chalet on a late Sunday afternoon in May of last year. I […]
So yeah, it’s been a while since I posted Part One. During World War I, trench warfare bogged down progress tremendously and many conflicts subsequently drug out for months on end. Think of the delay as me trying to illustrate that point? Fortunately, The Great War does a […]
It’s kind of ironic that I am returning to my blog and posting a piece on Star Wars just before I drop out from the social media sites I use to push off my ramblings. The thing is, it’s the best and only chance I have avoid the reviews, rants, spoilers, […]
There is so much I did not know about World War I. It’s not as heavily covered as World War II (America did not become involved until 1917, three years after the war started) here in the states and it seems so long ago to most people, probably […]
This was the year I was going to do it. I was going to Gen Con. If you have kept up with this blog, you know I am not much of a convention guy, but the last couple years at Geekway to the West have accelerated a change […]
It started innocently enough. A friend of mine, Aaron, said something like, “You like going down rabbit holes, you should check out this podcast I found called Hardcore History. The host is Dan Carlin and he really likes digging deep into a subject.” He went on to explain […]
