I got a new job a few months ago. The work is amazing, and I’m having a great time. There’s just one problem – I don’t have health insurance with my new job until December and COBRA was way too pricey. Until my new plan kicks in, I’ve just been being very careful about everything. [...]
I mentioned Net Neutrality yesterday. It was somewhat vague, somewhat inarticulate, but mostly incoherent. I was very sleepy. It seems that NPR’s story on the topic (from the 21st) was similarly confounding for Jack Degolia. If that’s how you spell his name. He wrote in a letter to “All Things Considered,” “I had no clue [...]
Sometimes, when you’re trying to blog regularly, and it’s your night to post, life steps in the way. It’s occasionally more important to make a mix tape for your wife than to write a post. And then when you go back to write the post, you don’t care to put any effort into it. This, [...]
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi spoke to the U.N. today. And apparently, FCC regulations kept them from expressing exactly how batshit fucking crazy the guy’s speech was. If most of the world didn’t already know him as a dictator and harborer of terrorists (if not himself a terrorist, I’d probably hail the speech as comedic genius. [...]
I was a timid kid. Everything scared me. I couldn’t watch “Ghostbusters” until I was 12 without having nightmares. One of the worst nightmares I’ve ever had was about a Big Bird Halloween costume I had when I was four. Remembering that nightmare still creeps me out. Halloween has never been my favorite holiday. Still, [...]
On the week before This American Life airs their second dive into the Giant Pool of Money, they’ve decided to air one of my favorite episodes ever, “The Fix is In“. It’s about a food additive company involved in a global price fixing scheme and the informant that helped the FBI bust the companies involved. [...]
I suppose that after months of hosting the show solo, Bob deserves a break. Brooke’s hosting and editing the show this week (and delivering her own outro without a single trace of longing for Bob – seems that all of that attempted hair petting on his part is getting him absolutely nowhere). Listening to this [...]
My birthday was Wednesday, but on Thursday, Kerry gave me an addendum to my birthday presents: She found a used vinyl copy of the new Sonic Youth record. I already had a downloaded version, but was aching for the vinyl – it’s a great record, but Sonic Youth has such a distinct sound that all [...]
While I was at Ball State, I didn’t exactly fall in love with Muncie, but I developed a fondness for the city and its problems that’s difficult to explain. Muncie was a city built on the manufacturing industry, and it was spared somewhat from the Great Depression, owing largely to the Ball brothers and their [...]
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All Things Considered did an interview with Aziz Ansari this afternoon. Sadly, most of the interview with the comedian is really boring. I think a lot of it had to do with the questions he was being asked. The interviewer started with questions about Ansari’s character on “Parks and Recreation”, which were kind of interesting. [...]