A melody that illuminates that dark place left in winter’s Scandinavia. Blue Foundation’s haunting “Shine” is featured in this movie preview for the film Angel’s Gone. This is the film adaption…
May 12 2009
May 05 2009
Perception is personal (and consequently, not negotiable)
Image via Wikipedia
The last few days are pockmarked with examples proving without a doubt that perception is personal. Some of them affecting me personally, some not. All jarring,…
May 02 2009
First Aid Kit "Our Own Pretty Ways"
Swedish sisters Klara & Johanna Söderberg from Stockholm, Sweden play together as First Aid Kit. The produce folksy, harmonized acoustic loveliness. Young and so talented, I hope to hear much…
April 28 2009
Archive "Lights" Live at the Foire du Trône
Archive. Man, I lurve these guys. They meet all my requirements for being groupie-worthy: Foreign Dreamy Lyrically deepArchive has been around (in one form or another) since 1994 (according to…
April 27 2009
How to write better and faster (and why the library makes me sexy)
Image by margolove via Flickr
April 19 2009
The Knife "We Share Our Mother's Health"
I just can’t get enough of Karen Dreijer Andersson lately, drawn time and again to her projects The Knife and Fever Ray. There’s a sweet spot I’m attracted to, a combination of utter weirdness,…
Not scared? Then you're doing it wrong
“If it isn’t frightening, it’s not worth doing.”
I was ruminating with Ed Borasky (@znmeb) about that old adage yesterday at Beer and Blog. We sat at the bar together, I drank the lovely dark…
April 08 2009
A Vibrator Story (like A Christmas Story, only completely different)
Image by Cranky Media Guy via Flickr
ow that my mother and little sister have traveled home from their very short visit to Portland, Oregon, and I have had a chance to reflect on…
April 06 2009
Prelude to a vibrator story (a shiny Twitter distraction)
My mom and sister are in town visiting this weekend. They arrived on the Greyhound bus from small-town living in Eastern Oregon, loaded down with my niece fetus, sleep apnea machinery and Ikea…
April 05 2009
Mike Stilkey "An Occasion of Wonder"
April 01 2009
Lest you think I’ve been slacking in the Department of Blogging, here’s another installment of Miss Me? Monday. This is where I handily outline all the other places on the Internets that I’ve been…
March 27 2009
Nothing says "I care" like taking off your clothes
Funny story how I ended up as July in the Naked for a Cause 2010 charity calendar. I know you’ve heard me yap about it before, but here’s a recap anyway: its purpose is to monetarily benefit a…
March 23 2009
Clearly I need to work on the mediaChick brand (or do I?)
Like all self-respecting social media consulting professionals, I often vanity search. This is, of course, because a person’s self-worth is directly tied to how many times their links appear on the…
March 19 2009
Rome, trains, a beautiful deaf girl, a handsome stranger. All these things remind me of another love story, another time, another place. And I will always wonder: what if?…
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