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The Musician I Most Want To See

If you’ve been reading my blog over the last year, you may know who this is. It’s Matthew Ryan, of course. I was trying to figure out why his music has had such a big impact on me over the last year and those thoughts expanded to trying to figure out why I like mopey […]

A Musician I Just Saw — Ryan Bingham

Sacramento has a new concert venue. Channel 24 with a capacity of just over 2,000, it provides a midpoint between the smaller bars and an arena show. It is almost all general admission, so you gotta stand for the entire show unless you pay extra for one of the few hundred seats in the balcony […]

A Group I’d Like To See — Elbow

Just an absolutely beautiful song…

A Father’s Day Message To My Family

Around 12-15 years ago I wrote an essay about our father. It was titled The Shadow Man. Some of you apparently have read it, although I have no memory of sharing it with you. It did get published on another blog that has since disappeared, so I no longer have the essay available to me. […]

A Group I’d Like To See — Phosphorescent

This song has been consistently near the top of my Spotify Top 100 for years. It will likely stay there for years to come…

17 Years

According to WordPress, today marks 17 years since I started blogging. At least on WordPress. I actually started on Blogger before that. But one day I logged into Blogger and everything had turned into another language. It looked like Chinese or something like that. And literally everything was in that language. So, I had no […]

An Addendum

More thoughts on my most recent post. There was another point about baseball I meant to make that I forgot. I don’t know why MLB thinks the way to draw fans to the game is to focus on the big city clubs and the biggest superstars, almost to the exclusion of anybody else. To become […]

This and That

Baseball, Weather Stupidity, and Writing/book stuff First, one of my occasional rants about baseball. As those who “own” the game continue to change rules and try to figure out how to make the game hip and cool with a wider audience, they fail to do some really basic things that would broaden the appeal of […]

A Musician I’d Like To See — Bleu Edmondson

Not sure what to say about this song and Edmondson, except that I love the song, as difficult as the topic is.

A Musician I’d Like To See — Joshua Radin

Radin has some other songs I like, but this is head and shoulders above everything else from him that I’ve heard.