Luddites Unite!

Paul Newman died.  The original world shaker. 

I’m using my vacation time to clean my ‘room’, a library -slash- place to put laundry -slash- home for action figures and role playing manuals that I visit as little as possible because the chaos disturbs me; I spent the last 3 hours taming the chaos, or so I would like to believe (that’s my [...]

Someone help me out here.  Why do we not want hormones in milk?  Why am I suppose to prefer free ranging chicken?  Why are antibiotics in my fowl bad?  There’s what, 70 million Americans, give or take a bus load of illegals?  That’s a lot of people, and they all want to eat steak, chicken and pork.  If [...]

David Blaine, magician, illusionist, mentalist, and cheeseball has, for the past 3 days been performing his touted Dive of Death in which he suspends himself upside down for 3 days and then is suppose to plummit 40 feet to his death.  At the end of the three days he dove from the platform only to [...]

We went to the Muvico in Ybor to see the movie ‘Burn After Reading’, which is a great movie by the way, two thumbs up from both me and the wife.  Seems Brad Pit has found his niche playing spastic morons, I guess you go with what you know.

After the movie we walked down 7th [...]

I.. am.. on.. vacation..

Day 1 started today.  7 more to go.  I have not looked forward to a vacation like this, well.. ever.  In previous jobs I was always the store manager, I was always worried what was going to happen in my absence (I have letting go issues, but I’m working on it).  Previously, before I could go on [...]

Have you been wondering what’s up with all these banks lately?  I have too.  Here’s my take on things:

After 9-11 there was a time where interest rates were lowered to almost nothing, and I mean almost nothing.  It is normal for interest rates to fluctuate up and down, but going this low was slightly extreme and it [...]

Az has challenged / asked me to put together 20 albums that I consider noteworthy.  I jumped at the opportunity, letting my enthusiasm get the better of me.  Not that I don’t want to do this, but I just didn’t realize how hard it would be.  Music is very personal to me.  I don’t mind [...]