Modern Musings and Toys

That's today's unemployment number for Philadelphia. Unfortunately for me, not only is that the closest major city to me, but I am o...

If you missed Adam Lambert performing Gary Jules' version of the Tears For Fears song "Mad World", you missed a musical moment...

The Northeast is blanketed in snow today. How refreshing that my company, in its wisdom, has been declared closed due to the worsening condi...

I've never liked the label "gym rat". It just seems a bit distasteful to be associated with some kind of rodentia because one...

In Memoriam: Patrick Joseph McGoohan (March 19, 1928 - January 13, 2009) Perhaps best known for his role as the nameless secret agent in th...

I don't like going so long without posting, but I've been going through a major upheaval at work and it has all but consumed me over...

"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." -- Thomas Jefferson

10,235 days. That's how long it's been since I watched the Phillies win their last -- and first -- World Series. I was living in O...

I haven't been posting a lot recently. And to that a friend asked, "What's the matter? Politics not pissing you off?" It i...

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -- Andy Warhol

In Memoriam Paul Leonard Newman 1/26/1925 - 9/26/2008 It seems I had just lamented the loss of a gifted musician only to follow it up with ...

"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." Herbert Hoover 31st President of the United States (1929 - 193...

Well, it's here. Fall has arrived as of 11:44:18 EDT this morning. At that moment, the sun was directly over the equator -- crossing ...

In Memoriam Richard William Wright 7/28/1943 - 9/15/2008 Today we bid a sad farewell to one of Pink Floyd's founding members, Rick Wri...

Rome shall fall. My wife was reading aloud to me snippets from a disturbing article she came across online. It was reporting on ten large U...

I've been listening to a lot of Pink Floyd lately. It seems to have a soothing effect that I can't get any other way. I don't ha...

This always made me smile. Back in my college days, this film short was a huge cult classic -- stop-motion animation at its best. At least, ...

Sand between my treads Atlantic in my rear view Off-road on the beach

I hate idiot lights. It's like your car's way of saying, "Excuse me, but I've got an issue here that you couldn't possi...

How many times have you heard that? I've been hearing it for weeks -- usually from the sun worshippers who have been waiting all year f...

I can be an insufferable purist about a few things -- especially movies and television shows. Show me the message that "this program ha...

We're headed for the First Town in the First State -- Lewes, Delaware. I took the picture above at one of my favorite spots on the pla...

A fortnight later and everything is pretty much how I left it. I won't call it writer's block because that's lame, but as soon ...

I heard a rumor. I don't usually comment on rumors, but the source is pretty informed and reliable and has no history of relaying bad in...

A friend and blogger bud recently posted about the thief who lives in all of our homes and steals our time -- that thief being the televis...

A friend sent me this link to the website Where The Hell Is...Matt? I confess that I'm not exactly sure what this project is all about o...