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Now Playing: Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door October 18, 2024 Music & Led Zeppelin & Vinyl & Now Playing

Thoughts as this plays: I’ve read online that this album is the most Plant/Jones album of all of the Zep albums; honestly, that’s not a bad thing,

High Five! (18-Oct-24) October 18, 2024 Links & High Five & Writing What’s in my NOW? — Dan Dao - This speaks to me and my obsessive commercialism/materialism: “A strategy I use to curb non-essential spending is to

100! October 17, 2024 Site Update I wish I had something overly profound to say, but I don’t. I am just excited to see that this is my 100th post for my blog! A couple of months ago

Now Playing: 42 years of INXS SHABOOH SHOOBAH October 16, 2024 Now Playing & INXS & Music & The Daily INXS Shabooh Shoobah was released on this date in 1982. 42 years later it still sounds fantastic, so of course I am playing the full album as I work

Ireland? October 15, 2024 The Daily Who is reading my blog that lives in Ireland? Google Analytics keeps showing me that I have readers from the emerald isle and honestly I’m just

Now Playing: INXS, Donna Summer, and The Interrupters October 15, 2024 Now Playing & Music & The Daily & INXS This morning’s soundtrack was INXS The Swing. For some reason I felt the need to dig through my vinyl and follow that up with Donna Summer On the

The Weekend! (14-Oct-24) October 15, 2024 The Weekend & The Daily & Sports & Detroit Tigers & Detroit Lions

Oops, I was supposed to post this yesterday, but didn’t. Derp. Life It’s my birthday today! How in the fuck did I get to 51? Friday: Went out for

51 October 14, 2024 The Daily Apparently birthdays make me morose now. I have a wonderful partner, fantastic kids, and a great family, so I am working this morning to not be such

Now Playing: Depeche Mode Violator October 14, 2024 Depeche Mode & Music & The Daily

Today’s Reading: THE WHITE BOOK by Han Kang (Finished) October 12, 2024 Today’s Reading

Yesterday I started, and today I finished, The White Book by Han Kang, who recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature. First and foremost, this is

DETROIT vs EVERYBODY October 11, 2024 Election 2024

Scheduled Immortality October 11, 2024 Fiction He opened his digital calendar and selected his birthday. Moving up the screen, he pressed the icon for “Recurrence,” and then moved down the middle

Now Playing: Jamie xx “All You Children” October 11, 2024 Now Playing & Jamie xx & Music & The Daily

In a follow up to yesterday’s post, I am obsessed with Jamie xx “All You Children” from In Waves: YouTube link The Daily: loosely grouped thoughts,

Today’s Reading: Han Kang THE WHITE BOOK October 11, 2024 Today’s Reading & The Daily Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature just the other day. I am not familiar with her work, but my local library has a copy of The White

Now Playing: Jamie xx In Waves October 10, 2024 Now Playing & Music & Vinyl & The Daily

This is today’s vinyl, which also makes it today’s (and yesterday’s) soundtrack. It also came with an mp3 copy because I’m old. I dig it. The Daily:

The Kybercast #228: Agatha & Penguin Simpatico, plus Voltron? October 10, 2024 Podcast & Kybercast & Star Wars

The latest episode of The Kybercast, the mostly weekly podcast I record with my good friend, Joe, is online! NEWS: JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX premieres

Milton Bad, But Could Have Been Worse October 10, 2024 The Daily There’s no doubt that Milton was destructive, but it looks like the worst case scenario was avoided. Again, it wasn’t good, but it could have been

Thoughts On Formatting; RIP “The Daily” October 10, 2024 Site Update & The Daily & Non-Fiction File Under: Shit Michael Thinks About I’ve spent a fair amount of time the last 24 hours thinking about formatting, specifically how formatting

The Daily! (09-Oct-24) October 9, 2024 The Daily & Film & Music & Garbage & Now Playing Current Events This should be getting WAY more press, but also, it’s not COVID tests that Trump sent to Russia, these are machines for reading

The Daily! (08-Oct-24) October 8, 2024 The Daily & Sports & Detroit Tigers & Depeche Mode & Pet Shop Boys & Music & Now Playing & Vinyl Life (aka Shit Like This Fucks With Me) I did some searching online to confirm my Uncle John’s year of birth and stumbled upon my Uncle Dan’s