Cindy & Bert – Die Hund von Baskerville
OnWhat’s better than Black Sabbath? How about a couple of Germans doing a note-for-note cover in that language with wholly new lyrics? Presumably about the Sherlock Holmes story? And with an actual Hund von Baskerville on stage with them? (It appears to be…
Hope the Helmless
OnImage by Getty Images via Daylife Two nights ago I responded to a request by NY Cares for New York City’s Department of Homeless Services’s (DHS) annual Homeless Outreach Population Estimate (HOPE). In groups of 2-6 we were to go out and…
Things That Are Neat: Octopuses!
OnI know that some people say the proper plural of “octopus” is “octopi“, but I read somewhere that it’s actually a bad Latin construction and is incorrect, though a lot of dictionaries list it as proper anyway. (The whole prescriptive versus descriptive…
Things That Are Neat: Those Sparkly Things In Street Pavement!
OnI don’t know if anyone really knows what I’m really talking about here. Has anyone noticed when you’re out walking in, say, the downtown of a city, and you look into the street, especially when there’s very little traffic or anything, and…
Game Review: Professor Layton & The Diabolical Box
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase DS Game] Perhaps my favorite thing about the DS is that in addition to some really great standard video game titles, there’re a lot of equally great casual and puzzle games as well similar to 겜블시티 라이브카지노. It…
Interview: Alexx Calise
OnMost people just work on one album at a time — Alexx Calise, on the other hand, has two albums due to release this February. One is her second solo album, and the other is the debut release of her band Sound…
Review: Hard Luck Stories
OnImage via Wikipedia [Purchase CD] I’ve been listening to the digital version of Ike Reilly’s new album Hard Luck Stories for a while now, and I’ve been really digging it; and it turns out there’s going to be a real, physical version…
Book Review: Columbine
On[Purchase Book] As “Weird Al” Yankovic said, “Everything you know is wrong”. Admittedly, he wasn’t talking about Columbine — that’d be a little bit of a downer. He got that from the Firesign Theatre, though they weren’t talking about that either; a…
Things That Are Neat: Television!
OnImage via Wikipedia Sometimes, people take for granted a lot of things; they’ve been around them so much they’re used to them and don’t see the magic in them and may even grow to hate them; TV seems to be square in…