Our boy The 1/3 turned us on to this important happening in June. A bunch of bands that longtime Buzzgrinder readers will recognize and appreciate are reuniting for a good cause. I just went ahead and re-posted the entire blog entry from The Huntingtons about the event. Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Ci...

Michael Stephens presented a small but interesting post today by Mick Jacobsen on "Love thy luddite" that makes some simple and good points. It resonated with me because one of the problems I have with the whole L2 phenomena is that they often do not listen and that they tend to push way too hard to...

Caution, this post might be hazardous to your language skills :) I was reading through Romans 7 last night in the Greek with a friend. We noticed an interesting thing in verse 15:ὃ γὰ� κατε�γάζομαι ο� γινώσκω: ο� γὰ� ὃ θέλω τοῦτο π�άσσω, ἀλλ' ...

On the Closing of Another Major Newspaper and on Journalism in General: (Musings of your humble servant at Rerum Novarum) These musings were triggered by the following article courtesy of Matt Drudge: Seattle paper says workers told jobs will end As someone who feels bad for those who fall on hard t...

via this auction Note the USB port.The Receptor 2 is out BTW.This is the original Receptor auction details:"Muse Research Standard Receptor Rack Synthesizer Plug-In Module1.0 Revision C. 1GB RAM. 150GB hard drive. With Ivory and Elektrik Piano installed General DescriptionOne instrument... Two rack ...

  I have the giggles… over this piñata from my wee niece’s birthday party. I have no idea why the poor thing had a hole in its head before the children had a go, but I the image tickled me. I suspect it is because I certainly have had days were I have felt this way. Just read… The Assas...

on the subject of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous thrift: -flaunting expense or thrift, some ponderings on same by the very smart barry over at 3stylelife -the case against thrift (from salon) and conspicuous thrift (from the la times) (both via nubby twiglet) myself? well, i’ve always...

Don’t you love that headline? It has a perfect appeal. It makes some people think that a pastor is flying in the face of religion. It makes some people happy that someone is finally speaking truth. It makes some people terrified that yet another pastor has gone over to the other side. ThatR...

So, I  keep hearing that in order to lose weight one must eat less and exercise. So, as I’ve not lost weight I’ve eaten less and less and still not lost weight. In the winter it’s hard to get the exercise I need, but when the weather’s nicer I can do a two mile round trip to...

What's up, you might ask. Well, my pneumonia is getting better by degrees, but it has spurred a (hopefully temporary) diagnosis of asthma. I'm now on steroids for the next several days and a couple of attractive inhalers for a while. The directions for the steroids are insane: take four for three da...