Author Archives: andrew

Meet Torso

Wow, an entire year missed with no posts. Well, might as well kick of 2019 with some radness – meet Torso, a band so cool it has both umlauts and like something else in it’s other ‘o’. Here’s a video … Continue reading

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The Ex Cults from Memphis

Is this whole internet thing still on? Oh boy is it ever. First off meet ex-cult. They are cool: Ok now I forget what it was I was going to say. Trust me – you wouldn’t have cared. Instead of … Continue reading

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I’m The Chief

It’s inauguration day, folks. Big day. Things afoot. The new overlords pulling up in the moving vans. Anybody ever heard of an old feller named Henry David Thoreau? Me neither. Something about a pond. Must be good though, he was … Continue reading

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It’s in our DNA

I was watching a documentary about sound. And I have an old joke. More on the old joke in a second. But it was tracing our relationship with sound, and how over the years we have tried to share and … Continue reading

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On Privacy – and Public Records

Somehow I think we’ve missed the original point of making certain records public. Here’s something the newspapers (ha, newspapers. remember those? me neither.) have mentioned in an article on how companies learn about you – Because birth records are usually … Continue reading

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Nature Rx

From the reader-mail handbag today, this little gem:

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The Magic of Thinking Big – the cliff notes

I was reading about a guy that did a thing and he mentioned a book he had read before he did that thing, and it’s like fifty years old which is like totally FOREVER ago. Anyhoo of course my local … Continue reading

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Meet Metz

Canadia, our friendly neighbors to the north, have produced this fine little trio of musically oriented type individuals known collectively as Metz. Metz is currently travelling across Australia, the Great Down Under, and lining up gigs in China, aka nowhere … Continue reading

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tree art on a walk

i went for a walk today and came across an old rusty chain that someone had coiled around and made to rise up off the ground, kind of like a cobra. i didn’t stop to look how it was done, … Continue reading

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On Art – a Pontification

Let’s talk about art for a moment, shall we? It all started today when I launched an app on my phone called Flipboard. It’s a content delivery app, and the topics to choose from was fascinating. I won’t go into … Continue reading

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