2005 is coming to a close… my relatively new blog (what you’re reading right now) just topped 100,000 hits this month alone… and I’m thinkin’ that any year in the United States is a good year. Sure, to some experiencing tragedy it may not feel fair or seem joyous all of the time… but this [...]
I get bored easily and sooo… I have changed the color scheme of my site. The main column (this one) and the right columns now have a simple gray-scale rounded border with a raised effect… whereas before they were purple and orange-tinted, respectively. The header image used to be blue-ish purple… and is now a [...]
It has occurred to me that I really haven’t expounded on much directly concerning guitar playing. Let me remedy that right now. Every guitarist is looking for cool chords… they may be brand new or oldies-but-goodies… they may be simple or excruciatingly complex… but they are cool. Here’s a couple to chew on that have [...]
Just saw Trans-Siberian Orchestra live… WOW! This is my third year in a row, and this time was even more lights… more lasers… more fire… more neo-classical symphonic power delivered with relentless energy for three hours of Yuletide explosion that made my chops water! There are two touring troupes, and the one that comes to [...]
Ok, it’s Christmas Eve and everywhere around here, in this little city of East Bumblescrew (mythical reference… don’t try to find it), shopkeepers and passers-by are wishing everyone Merry Christmas in brazen fashion – and doing it mostly unknowingly in the face of all that is politically correct (read: idiotic) in the more “progressive” urban [...]
As I traveled west today to make the biennial trek to Western New York I relearned something about the “rest” of America that I sometimes forget while living in my suburban-quasi-urban area of the general unitarian wasteland known as the Northeast. I turn on the radio and all the stations were wishing everyone a very [...]
While we’re on the topic of Merry Christmas I wanted to share with all of you a couple of pertinent political cartoons I came across.
Okay, I may have really done it good this time. I just fired off a letter to the editor of the Albany Times Union in response to this piece written by Kate Gurnett. I proofed it as much as was safe in the short period I had to click [Send] before I changed my mind. [...]
O Holy Night.mp3 (disabled due to over-traffic… email me for a copy) Above is a link to the song that I did with the great Michelle Williams this morning for a special music piece at Loudonville Community Church. It’s an arrangement of O Holy Night that Point of Grace did on their first Christmas CD… [...]
Ok, I had to post this: http://media.putfile.com/WizardsofWinter-SM. Some engineer in Ohio rigged up a serious Christmas lighting display on his house and front yard… completely choreographed to some Trans-Siberian Orchestra broadcast an low-band FM. This is getting me pumped to see them at the Pepsi on the 26th! Here’s an article all about the display: [...]
I'm a Christ-follower, compelled by my faith toward reason, which points directly toward conservatism. This world's daily onslaught of lunacy offends my intellect and senses, so this is my venue to blow off steam.
