heavy metal and the overachieving student

March 21, 2007

Parents of gifted adolescents will be happy to hear that listening to metal doesn’t automatically make your kid a follower of Satan.

listening to Brian Eno’s Thursday Afternoon

March 12, 2007

Bought at a library book sale Saturday despite the best efforts of the gentleman in front of me. People with generously-endowed rear ends do best at these sales, keeping others at bay without having to turn around. That and the fact that hundreds of us were packed into a room on a very warm day, and some had not bothered with a morning shower. There were two large sections of CDs side by side, and after checking every title, he went bottoms up to gather the ones he wanted.

I retreated.

a really old 78

March 1, 2007

78 record

My dad had quite a collection, but so few remain.

During a brief period of bright light this morning, I took a photograph.