Category: Four short things

All of these were collected and just about ready to go in February. And then I got busy? I don’t know. The only instrumental ever banned from the radio Reading about this made my day. I recognize the song, but had no idea it had been banned from radio. Interesting bits: This is all via… Continue reading Four Short Things – July 22, 2019

The last time I started writing this post it turned into a whole post of its own. Luckily I have more things! Drunkard’s Rock Drunkard’s Rock is my new favorite page on the internet. Don’t open it on mobile, the HTML alone is 25MB and there’s a list of 100,000 band names. From the bottom… Continue reading Four short things – January 25, 2019

Aaron has a better name for it, so I’m stealing that and replacing the poorly named “Scratch pad thoughts“. This will help enforce short posts! How to make sure your recycling gets recycled FiveThirtyEight has a good piece on making sure your recycling gets recycled that includes a handful of actionable steps you can take… Continue reading Four short things – January 18, 2019

Costa first novel award winner recalls ‘awful’ time writing his book: He was working as a travel writer in Dubai when the idea that would become Evelyn Hardcastle struck him. “It was the body-hopping and the Groundhog Day loop. I didn’t have anything else, the characters or murder, I just had that concept. The moment I… Continue reading Scratch pad thoughts for January 12, 2019

I’m still trying to figure out a format for “tweet”-like things without titles that I want to publish, but not on Twitter. For now, I’ve kept a draft post going called “Scratch pad” that I decided to use as a base for the week (or whatever). One of my least favorite things about the new… Continue reading Scratch pad thoughts