Jam Cellar Playlist: July 1, 2008

I know this was almost two weeks ago, but the process of actually getting these things output to an HTML table is at least moderately arduous and so I didn’t get the chance to post it until today.
If you can’t tell by the track listings, I’m a huge Ellington fan. Nearly half the songs [...]

Do Pardon the Dust

It turns out that getting a blog back into shape after a two-year hiatus requires a little bit of patchwork. I’m busily fixing broken links, updating my blogroll, updating old pages, etc. so I sincerely apologize for anything and everything that is annoyingly broken over the next week or two.
In the meantime, consider the [...]

Curse You, Crocs!

Why? Why, cute girl walking down the street by my office, must you be wearing such a cute top with Crocs?
After the Great Escalator Shoe-Munching Scandal of 2007, I thought we were rid of you.  Like rogue guerilla rebels, I thought the offending shoes would be purged from the cities, be relegated to hillside [...]

Adult Laser Tag

The last (and only previous) time I did laser tag, I couldn’t have been more than 14.  The setup was in the back room of a roller skating rink, somewhere deep in suburban New Hampshire, hundreds of miles from home.  I was there with a few relatives, my siblings, and all the awkwardness that my [...]

The Great and Historic Return of 2008

You know those nights where you roll around half-awake in bed, sleeplessly contemplating various unsettling aspects of your life and wondering how they all tie together?
Tonight was one of those nights.  I nodded off early, then spent a solid hour tossing and turning, feeling uncomfortable, and not just because of the ridiculous DC humidity.  When [...]