I think we all know someone we should have this conversation with. And, of course, my horoscope for this week: Gemini: (May 21—June 21) It turns out that there are indeed mountains high enough and valleys low enough to keep you from your love. Yep…and they’re all on fire.

It’s really nice to know that while half of Southern California burns to the ground, the Los Angeles City Council is taking action where it counts.

Rod Roddy has come on down.

I’m not good at delaying decisions. Especially ones that I’ve already made. A bit of explanation is in order. I had decided a while back that I was going to eventually buy a TiVo. My VCR sucks, and I love television, God help me. I also am a total gadget whore, and this is one ...

Picture of the solar storms that supposedly will fuck up your cellphone and all sorts of other electronic shit. Note the picture of earth provided for comparison purposes.

You know a concert rocked when you leave thinking, “Man, that was so good, I need a cigarette.” And you have never smoked a day in your life. Everyone should go see Melissa Ferrick live. Especially if you like to fuck women, because she sings and discusses quite a bit about that particular subject. But ...

When someone offers you a cough drop, and you decline because you haven’t coughed in weeks. Then, twenty minutes later, you proceed to have a coughing fit of epic proportions and have to return to the profferrer of cough drops to beg for one.

Wow, Thursdays are gonna be lonnnnng days. We tape two shows, and that means twice the work, twice the chaos, and twice the vocabulary-draining exhaustion at the end of the day. And I need to get a VCR I can actually tape things with on a timer, unlike the one I currently have, where I ...

Since I had been planning on doing some maintenence to this site anyway, I took CheshireKim‘s suggestion of adding the ability for you fine folks to comment whilst doing some, uh, fall cleaning. The ensuing chaos will be entirely her fault. And I will do something new with the actual design of this site at ...

Elliot Smith died, apparently at his own hand, last night. Northwestern students who saw him open for Wilco a couple of years ago remember well his bizarre behavior, which seemed to indcate he was having some serious drug issues. However, the word through the grapevine was that he had been doing a lot better recently, ...