When we got Apple TV we always knew we’d get around to Ted Lasso, and we started watching it a couple of weeks ago. Honestly, it’s not my favorite. Ted Lasso is an American football coach who moves to England to coach a soccer team. Half the humor is written around his outwardly hayseed personality, … Read more
I listen to the music of my adolescence and young adulthood frequently. As that meant (and means) a whole lot of hair metal and new wave, I heard (and hear) a lot of lyrics about sex and love. Some of it, particularly the sexual content, is pretty cringey now. (Was then too, surely, but now … Read more
Some years ago I started taking a solo trip between Christmas and New Year’s to catch up with friends I’d be unlikely to see again without a specific effort, and after I’d done it a few times I named it the Precious Hearts Tour. It’s such a warm experience to spend time in person, and … Read more
The 2025 Precious Hearts Tour is underway. Watch for a post early next week. I love visiting my seldom-seen friends. It’s the purpose for the trip, and a high attainable nowhere else. But I cherish the time by myself in the car too. It’s valuable reset time, and though I won’t use the R-word, it … Read more
I was waiting for an online meeting to start a minute ago and a colleague asked how things were going. I said “oh, this time of year I just hook my chain on at the beginning of the day, go where it takes me, and unhook it at the end.” He nodded, laughed, and said … Read more
I just made a breakfast date with a longtime friend. We’ve gone before, but it’s been too long. Whether professional, personal, or both, I’m a big fan of getting together for breakfast during the week. Meeting at 7 am can be quite an effective tactic to land on the hectic schedules of colleagues and/or friends. … Read more
Founding Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley died last night. He was 74. This is much more personal to me than most celebrity deaths. Ace has been an important part of my life soundtrack for just short of 50 years. I got Destroyer for my fifth birthday, and it was all over. It was the greatest … Read more
My relationship with Apple is long, dating to just a couple of years after it was founded (and only about seven after I was founded). Said relationship has also known great ups and downs. To be sure, Apple and I were marvelous pals in my childhood and young adulthood. The sense of wonder I felt … Read more
My good friend Beth and I went to a couple of concerts last year—a group with her husband and my son Aaron to Extreme w/s/g Living Colour at Mars Music Hall in the spring, and then just the two of us to P!nk in Birmingham right before Thanksgiving. So on the way down we started … Read more
Some years ago I started taking a solo trip between Christmas and New Year’s Day to visit geographically inconvenient friends. I make 3-4 stops in a circuit, so that the next stop is on the way from the last one. On my second or third time to do it, I named it the Precious Hearts … Read more