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March 10, 2024

Affirmations

If you’re a person of a certain age, you may remember Stewart (Stuart?) Smalley, a character played by Al Franken, on Saturday Night Live back in the 1990s.

December 01, 2023

You can say "shit" on reddit

There are very things that I would consider to be actual “pet peeves”, but choosing to say a word and then censoring the word with unpronounceable characters is definitely one. Specifically I mean when people say things like “Isn’t it sh_tty when…” or “I am so f@cking mad that…”

January 21, 2019

The Amen Break

This is not a new story, and it is not the first time it has been told, but I’m writing it in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. day, 2019. If nothing else, I hope that awareness about this tiny nook of music history might help bring some justice, even if only a mote, to the contributions to music made by minorities. I write this to honor both their memory, and to recognize the contribution made to a genre of music I have enjoyed for over two decades.