Category: Doing

  • The Phillies: Beer and Baseball

    My first Troegs Sun­shine Pils @ CBP Orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by J T. Ramsay The Phillies start their title defense as they play host tonight to the vis­it­ing Atlanta Braves in the sea­son open­er at Cit­i­zen’s Bank Park. Helen and I did­n’t get tick­ets to tonight’s game, so we decid­ed to catch the first of two On…

  • The Running Man

    If you fol­low me on Twit­ter or Dai­ly Mile, or by some strange twist of fate bump into me in real life, you know I start­ed train­ing for and suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed the Philadel­phia Marathon last Novem­ber. I’ve tried to keep it up over the course of the win­ter, but it has­n’t been easy. Cold weath­er…

  • Elysian Avatar IPA

    Elysian Avatar IPA Orig­i­nal­ly uploaded by J T. Ramsay Helen and I stopped in at the Abbaye for brunch this morn­ing and I stum­bled upon yet anoth­er inter­est­ing brew from the good peo­ple at Elysian. What made this IPA stand out is its sub­tle fla­vors. Elysian’s Avatar IPA does­n’t bowl you over with high alco­hol…

  • The Sky Is Falling!

    Here’s my absurd, reduc­tion­ist view­point on why edi­to­r­i­al will sur­vive the demise of the music indus­try: just because big con­glom­er­ates won’t make mon­ey sell­ing music does­n’t mean peo­ple will stop mak­ing it. Artists will keep doing all sorts of beau­ti­ful, irra­tional things, often at con­sid­er­able per­son­al expense, even if there’s no one to buy it.…

  • Welcome to My New Blog!

    I’m cur­rent­ly try­ing to wrap my head around an idea that best con­veys “my per­son­al brand.” It’s not easy. It also requires an embar­rass­ing degree of self-aware­ness. I think that the end­ing of Bar­ton Fink prob­a­bly sums it up best. In the mean­time, I’m going to be exper­i­ment­ing here on my new blog. What’s it going…