Isn’t the Light OK?

1) In a dis­cus­sion of morally dubi­ous hol­i­day enter­tain­ments, the idea of keep­ing Christ in Christ­mas was brought up. One person’s response:
Like­wise, I believe in the impor­tance of keep­ing Thor in Thurs­days. That’s why once a week I drink exces­sively and smash things.
2) The AV Club’s list of the least essen­tial albums of the year […]

A while back, I posted about some regional lin­guis­tic pet peeves of mine, one of which was the “ran­dom” use of quo­ta­tion “mark’s” and “apostrophe’s.”
Looks like someone’s taken the Engr­ish approach to the sub­ject, cre­at­ing a blog (http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/) to show­case par­tic­u­larly bad exam­ples of quo­ta­tion mark “abuse” in the “wild.” Not only that, but Merlin […]

Last night I watched a cook­ing pod­cast about omelets. I’ve always con­sid­ered them to be a spe­cialty of mine, but the host of the show was mak­ing them a dif­fer­ent way than my usual. His tech­nique included a cool lit­tle pan flip once the first side was done and the edges had been folded over. […]

Yes, Octo­ber has come and gone, and my lit­tle blog here is finally up and run­ning again.
What hap­pened? Well, suf­fice it to say some­one (or some script) had their/its fun, and I have suf­fi­ciently learned the les­son of keep­ing all my scripts up-to-date.
Dur­ing the down-time, I kept the blog­ging up at my Wordpress.com site, and have […]

Only days after 93.9 FM switched to an auto­mated, announcer-free blues playlist, WCLZ appears to have been taken over by Saga Communications/Portland Radio Group. Not much has changed so far.
It’s basi­cally the same playlist (I’ve heard Death Cab, Feist, and Van Mor­ri­son over the past half hour). Their logo looks more like a radio station’s, less […]