I Love Cynics!

Consider this a follow-up to the previous post. I just stumbled across this video on YouTube of comedian Rob Paravonian ranting about Pachelbel’s Canon in D. I feel his pain. Well, instead of playing the cello, I played bass. And despite only have 8 notes, our orchestra conductor didn’t trust me to do it well […]

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At various times my music collection has been described as boring, commercial or “gay.” I simply label it eclectic.
As I sit here, at approximately 34,000 feet, I become acutely aware of my music collection. I recently purchased an 8 gig iPod Nano. Now, that’s not enough to store all my CDs, but it does […]

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In this high-tech webified 2 point whatever world we live in, words have a heightened importance. Words are used to find information. The wrong words, and you’ll miss it. The right words, and closets of more words, from small cupboards of data, to walk in closets full of prose, open up.
From small blogs like my […]

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The best parts of this book are the last 18 pages. No, that’s not really a slam on the book… well… you’ll see.
LiViNG GREEN: A practical guide to simple sustainability is exactly what the subtitle suggests; a guide to improving sustainability in your daily life. Everything, from what you eat to what you drive, has […]

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A book review… a year after the book came out? Sure, why not? Someone has to be the voice of reason.
First, let me get straight to the point. A zombie novel with some cliche elements? I suppose it goes with the territory. A zombie novel that is nothing BUT cliche? I suppose I could ask […]

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All good things come in threes; Neapolitan ice cream, stooges, celebrity deaths. So I figured one last run through of this game was required before I set it on the shelf to gather dust along with Battlefield 1942, Duke Nukem and Doom. But before I could do that, I needed a theme. Something to make […]

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If I could award one person with Cynic of the Year, it’d go to Alan Weisman. How often have we, as the jaded cynical people we are, considered the thought experiment “What would this place be like if every one of us disappeared?” Usually there’s the addendum “except for me.”
No, in Weisman’s book we all […]

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