Month: April 2008
College Memories Return
When I started looking at colleges a bunch of years ago, I wanted a place where I could wrestle, use my writing skills and set myself up for a job after graduation. I also one other very important criteria –…
My Cha Cha Slide Debut
I try not to let too many rules run my life. I am somewhat set in my ways, but I like adapting to new situations as they present themselves. I knew a lot of that would change when we started…
ITEOTWAWKI: Happy Birthday, KO
Kathleen O’Brien Layson has a birthday today. I have no idea how old she is. I have never met her. But the party she threw for herself in 1980 – when I was 11 years old – changed the face…
Play It Loud
Thanks to my obsession with R.E.M., Accelerate‘s tidy running time of around 40 minutes and the fact I heard it for free a week before its official release on iLike, I have listened to the new album more than a…
Worst Day Ever
Nothing really bad has happened today or will happen as far as I know with the exception of people trying to be funny with over-the-top fake stories because it’s April Fool’s Day. The problem with many of these efforts is…