From Brad on 2: Country trio BlackHawk (Goodbye Says It All) will make a $15,000 donation next week to the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in memory of their former member and co-founder, Van Stephenson, who died in 2001 from skin cancer.
Holiday lights are up!
Holiday lights already up in Germantown, 11/29/06, originally uploaded by Kate O’. Karsten got our lights up, and I think they look great, especially with the new windows. We saw John H & Lynn headed for home while we were
Gingko Tree, Autumn
Gingko Tree, Autumn, originally uploaded by historicgermantown. Isn’t this gorgeous? It’s a block and a half from our house, but I somehow didn’t catch it when it was in peak color like this. Photography is a wonderful thing.
Ka-yooot!
Okapi, okapi, okapi! How I love thee, okapi. Just look at this bay-bee okapi, born at the Brookfield Zoo in the west suburbs of Chicago: Adorable!
Major micro-management
Good observation from John Oates: [Hall & Oates] had been in the traditional music business for over 25 years and in the mid-90s it had changed so drastically that it really didn’t have much to do with us and what
It’s so bad, it’s funny
Karsten always says I’m at my funniest when times are bad. Or, put another way, when I’m really cracking him up, he knows I’m really feeling down. I knew I wasn’t the only one: A Hurricane Katrina evacuee walks up
Dead mice and droppings and old shoes, oh my!
This is all good and well, but I don’t want to think about what qualifies as “aromatherapy” for most dogs and cats. Eww. powered by performancing firefox
Inspiration, perspiration, and success
Cool story, and a great lesson. And I love the song the author of the article is referring to. Karsten and I had just finished demo’ing a song called “Moved On” when this song, “I’m Movin’ On” hit big. At
Observations from my web site stats
Web stats are fun. Thanks largely to the mytreo.net article, Honeybowtie.com received triple its average number of unique visitors in October, using something like four times the normal bandwidth. Wow. The next-most voluminous referrer, though, is http://www.polyamory.org/SF/poly-folks.html, and has been
My review of “Stranger Than Fiction”: Brilliant concept, disappointing execution
The premise for this film excited me; at first glance, I even thought it might have been a Charlie Kaufman screenplay. (No, turns out it’s by a first-time screenwriter. Inspired by Charlie Kaufman, perhaps?) The trailer reassured me that there