All Of The Old Posts
May 31, 2018
New Soundtracks for Classic Games
I listened to enough music while playing old Nintendo games back to have conflated the original game soundtracks with my personal music choices.
May 22, 2018
In Defense of Learning Styles
Learning styles were debunked in what looks like a flawed methodology, but that’s not what I’m grumpy about: it’s that anyone thought quantifying learning was a good idea in the first place.
May 9, 2018
Last Month in Four Stumbling Blocks
A trip to Nashville, a post about dudes and music lists, Record Store Day, and trying to get my kids to understand good pop music.
May 1, 2018
The Best Worst Dog
A bit of a eulogy for a dog that I fought with, got angry at, and constantly struggled against — and in the end I’m still super sad and at a bit of a loss.
April 20, 2018
The Dudes In My Music Lists
On addressing the lack of diversity in my music lists, your music lists, and most music lists made by middle-aged men who grew up on punk rock and metal.
April 6, 2018
A Boing, Some Gulls, A Screech
Some first sounds, some old songs, some gulls to start it all out: one more monthly playlist, even if it’s just to get a chance to listen to more Laura Jane Grace.
April 3, 2018
Outside Hotel Windows
There’s always a lamp, a chair, a set of drawers. And there’s always windows. What’s outside the windows is the only thing that changes.
March 5, 2018
Bright Hip Hop Horns in a Garbage Heap
Anger and escape often contradict each other, except on music playlists, where they hold hands and sing complicated songs.
March 2, 2018
My Smart Home’s Not That Smart
Our garage door has wifi, three remote features I barely use, and still doesn’t always work the way it’s supposed to. What happens when all of our things are like this?
February 21, 2018
Click, Click, Boom
There are two paths we can take to tackle our seven million daily problems: we can try to tackle them all at once, or we can let a few of them slide, despite that clicking noise you might hear.