Category: Doing

  • The Bring Your A’s Game Blog

    Had an event, launched a blog. Pret­ty good for a beau­ti­ful week­end, no? Check it out!

  • I’m Going to See Pavement

    I guess the only way for me to stom­ach the Mann Music Cen­ter’s out­ra­geous ser­vice charges is to buy a tick­et from a friend. I don’t get out to shows much these days, but this should feel like jump­ing into a hot tub time machine back to my Philly music scene hey­day, cir­ca 2003. Expect…

  • I’m on Vacation

    Gorg­ing myself on Car­oli­na BBQ and seafood. Enjoy­ing the beau­ti­ful weath­er and water. Savor­ing every moment with my family.  Down­side? Pret­ty much burned to a crisp. I’m not the life­guard and farm­hand I used to be. Times like this make me wish I worked outside!

  • A Word on Urban Redevelopment

    It’s not a social good in and of itself.  I also won­der if folks who are all devel­op­ment uber alles still con­cern them­selves with things like “sus­tain­abil­i­ty,” which seems to be a watch­word among the gen­tri­fy­ing classes. The knee-jerk reac­tion to build things like music venues in blight­ed areas is tan­ta­mount to “drill, baby, drill.”…

  • A Thank You to Readers

    I’ve been butcher­ing this blog in one form or anoth­er since about 2003. My pas­sion for it has fluc­tu­at­ed over time, rang­ing from those heady days when I’d try my best to write about pol­i­tics, or when I ditched that and wrote about movies for a time, or when I just got caught up in…