Spook Me? Spook You!

Two days from Halloween. Seems like it was only 367 days from the last Halloween, but I guess time does fly when you’re having a stressful year, huh? What was I doing last Halloween? Well, I think we had just gone to the great BEAT Tour in Indianapolis on October 30th, and Halloween had landed […]

The Prince Of F*****G Darkness : RIP Ozzy

Imagine being 6 or 7 years old. Still quite impressionable and easily rattled by the creepy, eerie, and otherwise “dark” side of existence. Your older brother, 12 or 13, throws a record on mom and dad’s turntable and says “Listen to this.” The needle drops and from out of those Pioneer tower speakers comes 100 […]

So Damn Hot

With each passing year I’m of the opinion that we as a planet are cruising for a bruising, in the form of overwhelming heat. I had my share of super hot days as a kid in the 80s, sure. We had upper 80s and 90s, and there were a few trips to Kings Island and […]

Songs From Childhood : Living Rent Free In My Head

There are songs that stay with you for life for very specific reasons. Hearing a tune on the radio at a pivotal point in your life; maybe a death, a birth, a break-up, a declaration of love. These songs become more than the sum of their parts to you because they’ve grown roots in a […]

A Cut And A Shave

The first haircut I remember was at some barber shop downtown in an old house. You had to take stairs on the outside of the building up to a small room with 2 barber chairs and a crusty old guy waiting with little patience. I imagine him as a barber in the army giddily cutting […]

Monday Check-IN(1/27/25)

What’s happening, folks? Yes, it is indeed another Monday morning. Another work week has begun and we’re standing slack-jawed wondering what the hell happened to the weekend. This has been an ongoing trend for the as long as I can remember. At least as far back as the early 80s when I truly started to […]

Halloween Week

There’s something about Halloween that has always felt sacred to me. Of course being a kid and going door to door getting candy from neighbors and strangers alike was pretty magical. So was heading out with a friend or siblings and that feeling of ghoulish camaraderie as you all huddled in a group, fighting off […]

Radio

The radio was everything to me growing up. In that weird space between being a little kid listening to Disney records on a red, white, and blue Fisher Price record player to stacks of heavy metal cassettes being blasted through a GE boom box, the radio was my main source of musical nourishment. I was […]

A Few Words On The Mental Health Value Of Cleaning; Or, Feng Shui Therapy

I’ve been putting a lot of energy into cleaning lately. I mean, I clean a lot around the house. It’s sort of my go-to process for working out stress and anxiety, but also I think it might be a compulsion. I’m not washing my hands obsessively every 10 minutes or so, but there is a […]

It’s Hot Out…So Stay In And Watch A Horror Movie

Today is the start of the official “hot” season around here. Temps are climbing into the upper 80s/low 90s and lots of humidity. I know my elder dog won’t like it, and I know I’m not gonna like it either. It’s supposed to stretch clear into next week and even get those “feels like” temps […]