I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I’m pretty sure last week’s episode of The Office wasn’t funny. It’s like a part of me has died. Happy Monday night. My computer thinks it’s 10:14, but I know better. Daylight savings is hard enough without all the shifting around of dates. I nominate this post for [...]

My computer chair royally stinks. I’ve spent several hours fussing with my dissertation, and all I have to show for it is a strained lower back muscle. my chair is the worst you can tell it i said that i don’t even care Or perhaps… A chair is to sit– this chair is to be [...]

I have several friends who possess an encyclopedic knowledge of all things musical. I, on the other hand, have an uncanny ability to fail to correctly identify even my favorite bands and songs. But not tonight. Tonight, I was on. I successfully identified songs by Jon Secada, Jewel, Billy Joel, Violent Femmes, and Butthole Surfers. [...]

It always seemed perfectly normal to me that there was a picture of me hanging on the wall of the church nursery while I was growing up. It hung next to a photo of a beefy, infant Scott Martin. I was almost born in church. I certainly grew up in church. Just as family photos [...]

When I was 13, Kerinda Miller found out I could “play the piano,” and encouraged me to come play with the Burn Band, aka Digital Hymnal (shout out to John McClain). Fact is, I couldn’t play the piano, not in any traditional sense. I never did learn to read music, and I had only the [...]