A few favorites from last year, in alphabetical order:
Alcest - Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde / Prophecy Records
First full length from Monsieur Neige, aka Alcest, who hails from Avignon, France. It’s shoegaze in the tradition of Pale Saints, Lush, and My Bloody Valentine… but especially Pale Saints. (Alcest began as a solo act, became a black […]

Cool book about the Internet that is destined to fail because it disses (or at least shines a harsh spotlight on) bloggers and Web 2.0 in general: Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur.
I haven’t read it. I saw him, er, “interviewed” on a (recent) rerun of The Colbert Report. I love the premise of […]

A while ago my friend M told me about Neti pots, like this one. She heard about it from Dr. Mehmet Oz, a frequent guest on the Oprah show and co-author of three pretty well done health books like You: Staying Young.
Anyway, you use a Neti pot like so:

Looks kinda gross… and I certainly had […]

Donna, who lives with her family in Florida, asked me if I have a blog that would let her keep up with my doings. That struck me as a great idea. So I upgraded a languishing 2004 installation of WordPress to version 2.3.2, found myself a theme to work with (”newyorker,” by Milo), and spent […]