Why has no one told me how great this band is? Why couldn’t I have paid attention when I saw them written up in various local news organs? Because I’m a little (lot) slow on the uptake, it would seem. Thanks to mah honeh, I’ve been listening nonstop to 2004’s Memories Fade, 2002’s The Good […]

Four years ago today, I met my friend Doug face-to-face for the first time when he arrived at Logan Airport. We’d known each other for several years via a mailing list devoted to the bands of a woefully underappreciated songwriter, exchanging bursts of email now and then, occasionally flirting during the weekly IRC sessions for […]

I’ve been hoping to see some local-media coverage of this incident, but so far I haven’t turned up anything beyond blog posts and a few Flickr photos. I have to say, I’m grateful to those commenters who were either eyewitnesses or close to someone who was for sharing their stories.
The whole thing is distressing for […]

The good folks at Porter Square Books have posted an update on their website.

There’s a strange mood in the air today. A blizzard is on its way, and even though the sky has been bright and blue since morning, people are out in droves buying groceries and snow shovels, stocking up on DVDs, and speculating about how much snow we’ll actually get. I admit that my mood’s been […]