Thanksgiving: How We Got Here, And Why I’m Allowed To Eat This Much
Thanksgiving began as a harvest celebration. It was a simple idea: Grow food, survive winter, say thanks. The 1621 gathering in Plymouth gets the...
Category: Personal
Blue Plate Special: The Bravery
The Bravery emerged from the electric hum of New York City’s early-2000s rock revival, a five-piece wired together by sharp guitars, neon-lit synths, and...
Blue Plate Special: The Faint
Emerging from Omaha’s late-’90s DIY basements, The Faint carved out a sound that felt as visual as it was volatile, incorporating strobe-lit synths, jagged...
Blue Plate Special: Debra Fotheringham
Debra Fotheringham is a luminous singer-songwriter, guitarist, percussionist, writer, and poet whose artistry feels both intimate and expansive, like a quiet fire that draws...
Blue Plate Special: Keith Richie
Keith Richie is a Texas-born composer and producer whose music paints vivid sonic landscapes that blur the line between the earthly and the cosmic....
October 2025 Content Wrap-Up
Another month in the books, another monthly content wrap-up. In case you didn’t notice, I’ve moved this post from the 1st of the following...
Blue Plate Special: The Creatures
Formed in London in 1981 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and drummer Budgie as a drums-and-voice side project from Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Creatures...
The Circuit Dominion is Now Available!
I’m thrilled to announce that my debut science fiction novel, The Circuit Dominion, is now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions,...
Blue Plate Special: Fad Gadget
Fad Gadget was the alias of Londoner Frank Tovey, one of Mute Records’ earliest standard-bearers and among the sharpest architects of cold, sinewy synth-pop...
When AI Learns From Games… and Turns On You
I came across a box from our recent move with several Xbox games. Looking through some of my favorites, I had a thought: some...
