Sensory Dispensary
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
“The record you didn’t know you needed is what I am listening to in the other room.”
In response to the absolute cowardice of Disney in their buckling to threats by the authoritarian regime in control of our current administration, leading to the removal of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, we have canceled our Disney+ / Hulu account. We have also discontinued any viewing…
You might think you know me, but do you really? Someone mentioned The Weepies yesterday and it got me to put on some of their stuff this morning. They were so good and seeing them in a super small theater years ago was one of…
Earlier today I was sitting at my Mac working on Gina’s next podcast episode when I got a notification of a new email. I don’t get a lot of email and very little of it is actually important so I don’t know why I have…
I wrote the following in response to a comment I received on yesterday’s post about Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, and those who refuse to disavow the hateful speech and ideas from them. I believe I should share this response as a post as well…
I have made no secret of my tremendous dislike for Donald Trump. We share no common ground that I can think of. I can honestly say that aside from my being unabashedly, unashamedly liberal, I also just genuinely find the man to be loathsome, dishonest,…
One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all. Arthur C. Clarke
While I have no way to prove this to be true, I would be willing to bet that the big monitors in the situation room at the White House that are usually used to monitor troop movements and watch Special Ops Missions now just run…
Right around this time, 32 years ago, we were winding down our wedding reception. Gina had chosen 3 songs she wanted the DJ to play at the end of the reception – Lyle Lovett’s “She’s No Lady“, Dr. John’s “Makin Whoopee” (with Rickie Lee Jones)…
I was up a little before Gina this morning so I shuffled a playlist to get some music started. She came down a bit later and: Her: Your music is really hitting me in a particularly pleasant way this morning. Me: Nice – it’s my…
I have always known that prayer is bullshit, I don’t believe there is a god, but if I am wrong, it is abundantly clear he would be a malevolent being, or purely apathetic. In any case, I am now adding dreaming, hoping, wishing, imagining, picturing,…
Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits Around release time for this album we had a few people from Italy come stay with us for a summer (we had sort of an exchange thing going) and we went to see Dire Straits up at Poplar Creek…
Back in Black – AC/DC AC/DC are like that factory employee that comes to work regularly, does a good job, is consistently producing quality materials, but I really wouldn’t want to have to watch him work all the time. If I owned the factory, I…
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) – Wu-Tang Clan I am running out of words for some of these album reviews, so for this one I feel that I must channel the prophets Daryl Hall and John Oates who once said “I Can’t Go For That…
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! – Devo My first exposure to Devo was on Saturday Night Live in 1978, with the yellow hazmat suits and a version of “Satisfaction” that was unlike anything I had ever heard before. Now, 47 years…
Dire Straits – Dire Straits It isn’t often that a debut album unleashes upon the world a remarkably unique talent like Mark Knopfler, but aren’t we lucky that this one did. His distinctive guitar playing style anchors some great songs here and while “Sultans of…
