Surviving Grady is my favorite Red Sox site. I think they do the best job at capturing the joys and frustrations of being a Sox fan, and they do it with a sense of humor all their own. However, their taste in music is questionable at best. Yes, everyone has their own personal preferences and, …
While cleaning my office today I came across an old photo my uncle took when he brought my brother and me to our first game at Fenway Park. On August 14, 1983 the Sox beat the Royals 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader. I don’t have any specific memories of the trip to …
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from photography, is that you don’t always know what your best shot will be. Sometimes I spend a lot of time planning and setting up a photo, shooting multiple photos from various vantage points, only to be disappointed by every one of them. Then other times I’ll shoot a …
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit (NY Times) Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. Is there anyone — other than the corporations and lobbyists, of course — who likes this …
I can be a pretty compulsive photographer — not a professional by any definition, but I do enjoy shooting…perhaps a bit too much. (When I recently told a friend that I shot about 950 photos on our weeklong Disney vacation, he commented “I don’t think my parents took 950 photos of my entire childhood.”) But unlike …
Hummer Production to End (NY Times): GM will halt Hummer production at its Louisiana plant until sale of the brand to a Chinese company is completed. I loved this reader comment: Can’t wait to see a Chinese-made Hummer with a big ol’ American flag slapped on the back window.
I’ve never really been a fan of HDR images. There are a lot of examples on Flickr; some really boost the colors to near-cartoon levels, and others push their photos to a have a more dreamlike look. While many are interesting, I don’t want that look for my photos, so I decided I didn’t like …
Here’s 2009’s soundtrack. This is the first year that there’s no real punk or hardcore on my annual list (not that I didn’t listen to any, but there were no clear picks for 2009). Perhaps I’m mellowing with age? Listen on Apple Music People Under the Stairs: “Acid Raindrops (Instrumental)” The Beatles: “Dig A Pony” …
The Wire: Season 1 Before we standardized on album covers we were going to do whatever covers we wanted, so this year we did the cover from season 1 of the Wire DVD set.