For my old job I used to travel to Europe. Sitting in a bar in Amsterdam, I often heard a style of electronica that really spoke to me. It was a popular house music there that everyone seemed to know, but no one would explain to a silly American. It was unlike anything I heard…
As weapons go, I did not have many growing up. I wasn’t allowed toy guns or squirt guns because my mom was certain I was going to go around squirting my neighbors or pretending to shoot my neighbors. All that meant was I borrowed my neighbors squirt guns and squirted my neighbors that way. It’s…
Here’s today’s exercise: If you have not yet watched Avatar: The Last Airbender, go to Netflix and watch it right now. We’ll wait. Actually, if you have watched it, take this time to watch it again. It’s definitely worth a repeat viewing. Okay, now we’re all refreshed on the awesomeness that is Aang and the…
I’m not a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I do not dislike him, but in the scale of fandom that belongs to him, most everyone I know falls into the “I would give him a kidney if he asked for it” category, and I’m not there. Not all his stories resonate with me. And while my…
So my wife and I used the last of our groupons for the year. We’re fortunate that she acquired so many earlier this year because with our current financial hardships, none of this would have been possible. A year ago for my birthday, I drove up to the North Country. I had the day off…
So one of the exhibits at Old Sturbridge Village is a building full of firearms and textiles. It is interesting to see the evolution of muskets and eventually rifles over the course of two centuries, but what I really found interesting was a few items in the textiles section of the building. There used to…
Groupon Queen discovered that we lived near the nation’s third largest living history museum, Old Sturbridge Village. This is a village as you would have found it in 1835 New England, and many of the buildings are actually from that period transplanted from one of the various states. Actors/educators are in period dress and conduct…
I will admit that I’m not a fan of collaboration. But I realized today that it’s not a matter of not being a fan of collaboration, it’s just that collaboration has never been presented to me in a fashion that I particularly cared for. But then I got linked to a video of Joseph Gordon-Levitt…
I finished my rewrite, began PRINCE OF CATS (which is going awesomely–beyond awesomely really, I’m flying), and the summer crush is over. Obviously you can tell that because I’m blogging, thus my hours are not filled with making content to educate the next generation of politicians who will hopefully ben an improvement over our current…
We have a tradition here in the Selby household. My wife’s birthday is a month and a half before mine and our anniversary is in between. We make a birthaversary event out of it. For each of our birthdays, we choose a place we want to eat and an adventure we want to go on.…