This week's sporkful

Here are the songs that do make me feel something. The number is which day of February I posted them on. They aren’t really in any particula...

Regardless of my issues with the music K103 was playing, it was also very popular, so it was reasonable for them to play it. While I do have...

Hey, we’re crossing disciplines. It’s art AND science. I have been thinking a lot about why people like what music, or not, and part of that...

One thing that my music exploration has in common with my reading is that I don’t always know where it’s going to go. Sometimes I have an id...

And now for a brief interruption of my musical exploration to catch up on my reading. Obviously I am running late, but not quite as late as ...

One key inspiration for my musical odyssey started when I was carpooling to work. One of the great annoyances of that time period was the ra...

As I explained yesterday, I always want to know more about music, and sometimes I realize that there is a lot I am missing. Without going in...

Lately I have been thinking a lot about music and talking a lot about music, reading about it, and definitely listening to a lot of music. I...

Occasionally when I am writing about writing, I mention letter writing, and there is more story there, and I feel like I might as well expla...

As promised, more on what I have been up to. First of all, you may have noticed that I am actually starting to blog on a regular basis now. ...

I have thinking a lot about creativity lately, for reasons which I will blog about in the next post. For now I want to write about creativit...

Back around my birthday I posted about some goal-setting I had done, but I did not write much about the actual celebration. I had been feeli...

I have been on Twitter since February 6th. It’s been around since 2006, so that seemed like the right amount of lead time. Seriously, from t...

I thought I was going to take a break from politics for a while, but apparently I was wrong. However, this is local, and not largely theoret...

Not too long ago, we kept seeing commercials for a new book, “Deep into the Heart of a Rose”. It was odd to see a commercial for a book in g...

In keeping with my habit of dredging up old news, one of the most disturbing aspects for me during the debt ceiling debate was the insistenc...

I did give up Hatchlings, and still struggling to find writing time. Unfortunately, the other big contenders, work and sleep, refuse to budg...

I have been meaning to blog a lot more than I have actually been blogging lately. This is kind of always true, but less true in some ways. I...

I know, I have never done one of these before, and if I was going to, shouldn't I be doing it two months from now? As it is, I have seen...

This is a stupid title, but it's deliberate. About a week ago I tweeted "I wish people could get over Lin's heritage and just e...