No not the kind you smoke, the kind you eat at. A dive, a hole in the wall, a place that is not quite clean, but hasn’t been shut down by the health department. Yeah, that kind of Joint. There are a lot of Joints in the Baltimore area. Duda’s in Fells Point, Davis Pub [...]
Back in college, there was a popular class called “Arts 15: Introduction to the popular performing arts” — otherwise known as the history of rock and roll. The professor was, shall we say, opinionated. One test question that is still stuck in my craw follows: The greatest rock and roll band of all time was: [...]
Nearly a year ago I wrote about Lost Talents. I wrote about poems that I had written in college. Shortly after that post, my good friend sent me scans of many (but not all) of those poems. I was blessed, but many of them were incomplete drafts. I started hunting on old hard drives at [...]
I went for my first ride on my new bike today despite the fact that it was still a bit on the chilly side. Loaded up on layers and hit the road at about 12:45. I got in a good 1.5 hours on the bike – enough to stretch out all my cables and need [...]
Most days, I’m firmly in the camp of people who believe that technology makes our lives better. We have access to information in unprecedented ways in human history. And make now doubt about it, information is powerful. It can enrich our lives. In some cases it saves lives. Sometimes, I wonder though, whether we are [...]