Sunday Morning! Hammer City Records
In reality, it was never much of a record shop. But, for many of us, Hammer City Records was home.
Category: Mindless Diversions
Saturday Morning Gaming: Pinball (Virtually)
Ever since I was a young man, I played the silver ball.
Saturday Spins: Dwight Yoakam’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
This was my Dwight Yoakam gateway drug…I like guitars, Cadillacs, and depending on what one considers “hillbilly music,” I like that too.
Weekend Plans Post: Work From Home
I always used to daydream about working from home.
Until I started working from home.
Sunday! “The Book of X” by Sarah Rose
This great little novel suggests that surrealism might be the only way to write about the strangeness of the human body.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Zero Gravity Space Potato Puzzler
I’m playing Kosmokrats and having a wonderful time.
Saturday Spins: Rage Against The Machine’s The Battle of Los Angeles
This week the randomizer was in a bit of a mood and spat out an excellent record from my youth: RATM’s The Battle of Los Angeles
Weekend Plans Post: Agilely Sprinting
My workplace has recently switched to “Agile”. This has increased the number of meetings I go to dramatically.
Sunday Morning! “The Book of Disquiet” by Fernando Pessoa
Pessoa was that modernist type: a tiny man with a limited social life and an unfathomably rich and grandiose imaginary one.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Replaying Dead Space
Going back into the vaults to play an old sci-fi horror game from 2008: Dead Space.
Weekend Plans Post: Dealing With Daylight Saving Time
As such, this might be the first year of my life that I found myself regretting the end of DST and wandering back to Standard Time. Which is a weird feeling.
Saturday Spins: Dawes North Hills
Have you ever had the opener actually being better than the main act? While Dawes was performing, we knew they were something special then.
Weekend Plans Post: Participating In An Event Without Knowing About It
I found out that I ran in the CU Boulder Virtual 5K!
Sunday Morning! Bowles on Film
Wrapping up our Bowles-o-rama with three depictions of Paul and Jane Bowles on film, in somewhat mutated forms.
Saturday Morning Gaming: The World Of Darkness and Non-combat Centered Gaming
It’s nice to have games that are based in conflict but not combat.
Saturday Spins: The Beatles Rubber Soul
I know I placed the “underrated” moniker on this album, but that is through the lens of a casual fan of the Beatles, not a fanatic.
Sunday Morning! Paul Bowles’ “You Are Not I”
On Paul Bowles’ short story, an alleged murder he committed, and the rediscovery of Sara Driver’s 1981 no budget film adaptation.
Saturday Morning Gaming: Doom 2016
I now have a new computer and I wanted to see what it could do and, holy cow. Doom (2016) captures the joy of playing Doom back in 1993.
