This week the random gaze of Clutter Control fell on a recent album by a group of local hard rockers...

Hum...now I am scurred! I just found out from a Flickr post where I might be headed!!!! YIKES!!!! How many hail Mary's should I do now?!"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate." ("Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.") The Fourth Circle......

Old Man Winter is starting to pack up his crap and move out. In his wake, things are beginning to flourish again. I'm not meaning flowers and plants. I'm talking about my most dreaded foe. Spiders. We have been spider-free in our house for seven months. Not long enough. I guess lemon juice h...

Thanks for the comments, bretheren and sisteren. Lovely thoughts all. Bob, I have some thoughts about Lent, porn and Stephen Colbert that I’ll try and share share tomorrow. Those all go together, right? In the meantime, I have a grab bag of random goodies to throw at you. Just how good of a po...

eGreetings! Today was an interesting day all around. I think I’m mired in a winter funk. I’m ready for spring, even if that just means a lot more rain will fall. At least it will be warmer, right? Through my Internet travels, I found a lot of interesting things to keep my brain occupied ...

Oy vey! This week's random album review features crappy Jewish humor-rock...

Reader Chris Bright had too many remotes from various A/V gadgets and no good place to store them. That lasted until he fashioned a picture frame and fabric into a DIY remote caddy. He writes: A few years ago, I upgraded my entertainment system and it was great. I was happy with the results, but I w...

Now the progress on the studio is slower as I do little things here and there. I feel like I worked so hard this weekend, and there's not a lot to show for it. I still have a lot more......

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life, which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."--Henry David Thoreau When you think about buying things, or decide to keep things you no longer really love or use, how often do you stop and think about the true c...

I have developed a habit. It hasn’t been an easy one, but I try to stay at it. I try to put things away when I’m done with the them. When I take off my clothes, I try to put them in the hamper.  When I take off my shoes, I try to put them in the closet.  When I’m cooking, I put t...