This week's sporkful

No, not me. Foreclosure proceedings are halted for now. If you are noticing how late the blog posts are going up, you might guess that thi...

There are multiple days commemorating cats. This one - National Cat Day on October 29th - was created as a way to bring awareness to the num...

I finished reading Vaclav Havel's The Power of the Powerless in July. I wasn't expecting band references. The Plastic People of t...

Dead Now is a new rock band debuting on Brutal Panda records. I checked them out because Andrew Elstner (formerly of Torche) is in the ban...

In my original conception - which seems silly now - I was going to go through the pros and cons of each ballot measure with great precision ...

Knute Buehler is running as a moderate. The first ad I saw shocked me, and I wondered if he were running a different ad in the Willamette Va...

You may see a lot in the next few days trying to shame people for not voting and guilt them into voting. I suppose the mindset behind it i...

Camille Nelson plays guitar and violin beautifully. I am more aware of it because in listening to her music, I found myself much more move...

I was followed by one Twitter account, https://twitter.com/CEOBigMov , which points to Dre Prada, who has a separate Twitter account, liste...

Building on yesterday's post, speaking differently leads to thinking differently. After the revolution in Cuba, you were a Communist o...

I am amazed and disturbed at the ubiquity of "libtard" as an insult. On the one hand, as much as I know the right hates politica...

One of the oddest Twitter conversations I have ever had happened a few months ago. It included me being told "Lesbians are female homos...

First of all, Alkaline Trio is currently touring (though that is wrapping up) with a new album under their belts, Is This Thin...

together PANGEA put on a pretty good show. Honestly, a lot of that relates to the keyboardist/guitarist who slid around with...

I loved Sharp Shock. I was pretty sure I would. I had never heard of them before I looked up the openers for Alkaline Trio,...

Yes, this is about Avengers: Infinity War . Again, there will be spoilers, but it came out in April so I like to think we're good. I...

I adored Ant-Man and the Wasp . It worked on several different levels for me. The following text contains spoilers. The movie also came ...

Having just seen Johnny Marr two weeks ago ( review posted one week ago), I have been reminded of jangle, and of how downbeat it can sound....

S A Reyners is a singer-songwriter from Wellington, New Zealand. Most of the tracks have a pop cheeriness, but with an off-beat, lo-fi qua...

There is one main memory that has stuck with me from the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. I know a lot more about everything that was ...