Not “Smoke on the”

New Waterdeep album on pre-order. Last year’s Heart Attack Time Machine topped my best of 2007. Brandon Groves will be back on drums, and that’s a very good thing.

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Remember 2007?

Before I begin, let me just say, you won’t earn my love by reading the whole thing. It’s just nice to know you. I’ve been so busy putting together a list of the Greatest Recordings Known to Humankind, 2007, that I didn’t have time to get around to this list of Albums I Really Liked [...]

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A Good, Good End, and Everything On the Way

The new Waterdeep was released online last week, while I wasn’t looking: Heart Attack Time Machine. It’s in the background of my current work to prevent the dams from breaking, so it doesn’t have my complete attention, but I am enjoying it. I miss Brandon Graves’ drums (apparently all the noises are Chaffer made), but [...]

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More Things I Don’t Have Time to Write About (Or: Why I am Leaving This Coffee Shop’s Wireless Range)

1) I really enjoyed Half Nelson. I think more than Babel. The insertion of Dunn’s (what a great name for this character) lectures on dialectic are kind of cheating (Chip Lambert’s doomed script from The Corrections came to mind), but it provided a helpful lens; overall, I thought focus was a real strength of the [...]

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