YouTube Music
YouTube, for me, has replaced ye olde Napster (back in the day) as the main method of discovering new music. See, back in the late 1990′s – the far yesteryears – peer-to-peer file sharing was all the rage. If someone told you about a new band or song, you’d go home, boot up Napster, do [...]
The History of Fairfield and Jefferson County, Iowa
I recently wrote a two-part article on a basic history of my hometown, published down at Fairfield Voice. Part One: The Beginning of Time to the First Settlers Part Two: The First Settlers to Today It took me significantly longer than I anticipated to write these things. First, I put considerably more effort into writing [...]
No More Frontiers, No More Discovery
I’ve been researching the history of my hometown and county: Fairfield, Iowa in Jefferson County. I know it’s a myth, the idea of pioneers and settlers “discovering” the land, when people have been living here since 10,000 BCE. And, of course, what happened to the Native Americans was freaking tragic. But the settlers themselves didn’t really think about [...]
Clash of the Titans (1981) vs Clash of the Titans (2010)
They’re both terrible, terrible movies. I was just going to publish the above sentence and be done with it, but I’m still kinda pissed off about it. Who thinks that the timeless Greek epics are not interesting stories, that they “need improving?” Seriously – reading the Wikipedia article on Perseus is more interesting and engaging than either [...]
A Test Turns Real
Trying to pass yourself off as a “Professional Writer” is tough sometimes. For example, having a blog. Every post you make has to not only be impeccably spell-checked and grammar-fixed, but also so engaging and interesting that the random reader, like a sailor in antiquity, will be helplessly drawn in by my Siren song and [...]
