Awkward waterfall self portrait. This year marked the first Christmas Becky and I have spent together in the three-plus years we’ve been dating. The decision to stay out on the west coast for the holidays was inspired less by romance than by a lack of money and the fact we’d both been east for Thanksgiving. [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2010’
Good Music Monday
A youngish Chet Atkins looking dapper. For your listening pleasure: Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed doing one of the best covers of “Don’t Think Twice” ever. There are roughly 45 billion covers of this song out there in the universe from jokers on youtube to Doc Watson and Johnny Cash. There’s a whole Wikipedia section [...]
The Softest of Kittens
Dear pretend blog readership, I’ve got some bigger posts in the works, but have been amazingly exhausted by my crappy 6-days-a-week seasonal job doing packing and shipping for an online jewelry company (funny story about ignorance and bigotry coming soon!) so I haven’t been posting at all. It’s over this Thursday. Expect at least a [...]
Good Music Monday
Friend, former band mate, and former roommate Will McKindley-Ward (a talented musician in his own right), introduced me to the Tallest Man on Earth while we were living together in Silver Spring, Maryland. The Tallest Man is a brilliant Swedish singer-songwriter. His guitar playing is phenomenal. His lyrics are clever and well composed. His vocal [...]
