Archive for June, 2008

Review - The Ride Home by Joey Weiser

In “The Ride Home,” Joey Weiser brings the fairy tale beings of a world long gone into the modern one with rollicking results.
Nodo, the van gnome (that is, a gnome who inhabits a family van, as one might have inhabited the forest or a bridge or something in legends) is happy in his vehicle, but [...]

Danger Brigade 33


Beatles anew

In the realm of music I just cannot listen to anymore, The Beatles ranks high. They’re fine as bands go, I have nothing against them really, it’s just that they are overplayed at the expense of so much other music that has been ignored for decades, and that they  often provide a sad stopgap in [...]

Jarvis Rockwell

Jarvis Rockwell is easily one of the biggest reasons our family fell for the Berkshires — we first encountered him at his Maya show at Mass MoCA about 7 years ago. Jarvis’ work redirected my eye in both photography and everyday life and really got my brain going in making philosophical connections via his most [...]

Tiny People

“We’ll have to talk about that — and I’m not being unreasonable. I’ve just had a chance to see it for what it is.”

Review - Otto’s Orange Day by Frank Cammuso and Jay Lynch

 

It’s an old lesson, but one that each generation has to learn for itself in its own way — be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
For a kid, that sounds like a promise, to be sure, but any adult with his or her fair share of realistic luck — that is, [...]

Other People’s Lives


Danger Brigade 32


Daily Life


Musical Thingarium 15 - “Evil times are coming, we are in for darker nights”

An Abba special featuring Rough Silk, Erasure, At Vance, Bananarama, Glow, some Asian singer, and, of course, Abba
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