Today I’m doing some research on a band for an upcoming review. While surfing around the internet for articles and official bios, I found many passing references and comparisons to two other bands, both I had never heard of before, as being influences. Those bands are The Deep and The Seeds; both relics of [...]

My yearly disclaimer: This list doesn’t try to out-do any other list out there with my extensive knowledge of obscure choices that no one has heard of… mostly because I rarely have enough time to hear everything. This is just a list of my favorites that I frequently listened to during the last [...]

Last night I was watching the indie comedy Eagle Vs. Shark, starring Loren Horsley and Jemaine Clement, who of course is most known for playing “Jemaine” on Flight of the Conchords. The film itself was very okay; weird and awkward characters in the Wes Anderson or Napoleon Dynamite vein, but a bit too quirky [...]

Today’s NYTimes’ Green Inc. blog had an entry of note that has some relation to topics we’ve started to talk about here. The piece says that while the automaker’s noble journey back to Washington D.C. in hybrid cars from their fleets may look an attempt to go green, in reality, those cars are far from [...]

So as I now have a shared bathroom that I split with the rest of the floor, I’ve been noticing more and more that there are different types of flusher users out there. Here are the differences I’ve noticed:
“The Nihilistic Flusher” - No flush. (Not so common)
“The Single Flusher” - This person goes [...]

(part 458 in a 1001 part series)
This is another record I just dug out of my giant mail bin full of unlistened discs… one that I had overlooked until I read about a song on NPR’s Second Stage and thought I’d give it a once through.
Not sure what it is about this song… the computerized [...]

Greetings for another installment of this blog book club experiment. I want to take a step back and explain why we decided to read Thomas Friedman’s book Hot, Flat, And Crowded in the first place and what it’s even really about.
I think in many ways, this past election cycle has invigorated people’s interests [...]

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Welcome to a new series for hellocomein: Book Club. The first book that we’ll be tackling is Hot, Flat, and Crowded, the new treatise on Global Warming and Globalization from Thomas Friedman.
I’m only a couple of chapters into this thing, so I don’t have much to say yet, except to expand on [...]

My brother-in-law sent me this link and I felt inclined to share with the world. I can’t wait to open one of these babies..
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