Joshua Blankenship took a big batch of Polaroids on Saturday night at the Throwdown. I feel honored to have made the cut.
I am in sunny Nashville Tennessee for the Whiskerino Throwdown. Also, here’s a movie to keep you company while I am gone.
Ronnie Brown is one of the Whiskerino guys who will be at The Throwdown this weekend in Nashville, TN. What makes Ronnie a special member of the Whiskerino, and an extra special guest of the Throwdown, is that Ronnie and his wife have travelled from Glasgow Scotland to be there. Cheers to the power of [...]
(I had a full President’s Day) I also made time to go through Byrd Park. We used to live right next to it so I have a special fondness for it. I’ve never been inside but I’ve always been curious about the Byrd park Clubhouse. This water fountain is located just outside of the Clubhouse. [...]
I got a couple of those 33 1/3 books I mentioned for Christmas. I was more excited about the Smiths one because Joe Pernice wrote it. He explains in the foreward (and it’s funny that a 100 page book has a foreward) that he didn’t follow the 33 1/3 template by talking in the first [...]
I was driving to meet Michelle for lunch of President’s Day when I spied some crazy grafitti. Who doesn’t love hippos? I was surprised to see such a bold painting. Then I figured out I was behind Chop Suey our local used bookstore. Cool place. Cooler still, they had the whole wall around their corner [...]
Morningwood isn’t a new name to you loyal SaM readers. I talked up ‘Jetsetter’ back in September but the full album wasn’t released until January. It’s pretty good. People disagree with that. It’s definitely got a lot of the cool things in the mix: buzzing guitars, sing along lyrics, driving beats; but the whole is [...]
I had President’s Day off so I grabbed my camera and went out photo taking. My first stop was the Boulevard Bridge. It was known for a long time as the ‘nickel’ bridge because that was the toll to cross. Now it’s a quarter. ‘Quarter Bridge’ doesn’t have the same ring to it so I [...]