Letters, I Get Letters… Life As I Live It Some excerpts from recent emails that I’ve received: First, for the more serious side, here, court...

Arrived in the Mail Magazines Between Iraq and Social Security, the political situation is so damn dismal right now, that you have to take e...

Back Strain and Blog Strain Personal I strained my back over the weekend moving a short comic box full of trade paperbacks, so I didn’t get ...

Funny Book Mish Mash Comics Dorian wrapped up his week of non-comic book talk on Friday in a particularly eye-catching way. There are very ...

Shows, CD's and What Not Music Mish Mash Keith and I went to see Kieran McGee do an in store show at Ear X-tacy on Saturday, pre-back st...

Better Late Than Never, I Guess Comics Note: I actually had hopes of getting this posted in a somewhat timely fashion. I was kind of proud ...

The Fine Art of Re-Surfacing Music This is the weekend's musical update. According to the latest email newsletter from Not Lame Records ...

Concert Catch Up Music I have a real bad habit of writing posts and setting them aside for proofing and editing and then never getting aroun...

Say “Go-Shay” Y’all! Music Woo hoo! I am so excited I cannot stand it! Keith told me yesterday that Mary Gauthier is going to be opening fo...

You Can’t Do Everything… Music My trip to SF next month has put some crimps into our usual travel schedule, since I’m using a store of vacat...

SF in APE-ril Travel and Comics So, why am I going to San Francisco anyway? Why to go to APE of course! I have no interest in ever going to...

Tidying Up Blog I edited yesterday's music post to add some links and correct the titles of the Nanci Griffith and Mary Gauthier albums....

Musical Chairs Music Dorian at Post-Modern Barney has declared a moratorium on comics posts for the week, and the results, so far, have mad...

There’s No Place Like Home Personal I’ve been house-sitting for some friends of mine who’ve spent the past week in Europe. God...

Comics Wrap-Up 2004 (Sorta...) Comics I’m so late getting into the “year-in-review” for comics that there’s no point in even trying....

BEST CD’s of 2004 Music I bought a TON of music in 2004—lots of new and lots of used stuff. And there are some things that really stuck wi...

Tsunami Reactions Real World I’m as stunned as everyone else by the devastation from the tsunami. It’s hard to get my head around th...

Tsunami Comics Comics Newsarama has a good piece about making donations for aid and relief, including word about some of the things o...

RIP Will Eisner Comics Like many other comics fans around the world, I am still in shock over the death of Will Eisner . One more li...

Concert Countdown Music We saw a lot of shows over the course of the year—a bunch in town and a lot on the road. We put some miles ...