I’ll tell you straight up: 2012 seemed as if it came at me like a psycho with an axe. I mean, intense personal loss is usually enough to color the character of an entire calendar year. Going through a nearly year-long period of physical pain would…
From day one, the tagline of this blog was “resisting the pull of cynicism since 1969.” Well, in case it isn’t obvious from the few posts I have managed to eke out since early 2009 or so, I’ve stopped resisting. via idealisticpragmatist.blogspot.c…
Here’s the deal with our town. We have one particular industry here, the music industry, which isn’t really that big in the grand scheme of things, that has made a lot of money putting out an image that we’re a bunch of inbred hillbilly yokels who…