Confessions of a Fanboy

One of the traditions of our S. Carolina trips is that TWTWIM and our hosts like to rent and watch “scary” movies. I’ve never been a fan of the so-called horror genre, so I sit in the living room with them and retreat to the safe confines of my iPod. Once again, that […]

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That’s right, kids, I’m writing from the great beyond — or at least, the internet equivalent to it. I’m going to have to have one of those getups where a fella can get online anytime, any place because my ass is going through serious withdrawal symptoms. It’s not even funny.
S. Carolina is great […]

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It’s 9:38, the iPod is charged and loaded, and I’m about ready to call it a night.
TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried and I will be hitting the open road, heading for S. Carolina to visit friends. It’s the third year in a row we’ll have rung in the new year in Columbia, and we just can’t get there […]

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So this was Christmas. What did you get?
I did pretty well this year. TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried took expert care of me and I had a nice haul. My non-music gifts include a new Oakland Raiders pullover and Dexter Season 1
On the music front, I got Ringo and the David Bowie box. The Bowie […]

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Don’t worry, ToL fans, we haven’t forgotten about you. Christmas might have slowed the momentum, but I’m hard at work on my portion of Round 3: “All That Heaven Will Allow.”

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I don’t think of myself as a sappy or sentimental person, but I occasionally fall victim to nostagia.
There’s a picture of me as a kid – I’m probably four-years old – sitting on the floor in front of our old turntable in my PJs wearing a big-ass pair of ’70s stereo headphones. In the […]

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I’ve been AWOL for a couple days because TheWifeToWhomI’mMarried and I have exchanged a couple of early Christmas gifts. One of my gifts was Season 1 of Dexter. Hence, the AWOL-ness. We watched the entire season over Saturday and Sunday.
We now return to our regularly-scheduled Fanboy programming…
I’ve just wrapped the last of […]

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Christmas means so many different things to so many people, ranging from nothing to everything and a host of points in between. Christmas has come to, in part, mean music to me. For one thing, I always get new music at Christmas. I’m easy to shop for like that. For another, […]

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It’s Round 2 of the Fanboy Tunnel of Love Big Tent Revival. We’ve covered “Ain’t Got You” in Round 1 and now we move on to “Tougher Than The Rest.” As determined by a pre-revival draft, 11 once again preaches first.
11:
I have a fantasy. No, not the one with Shirley Manson, black thigh-highs […]

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It’s cold and rainy. A gloomy fog has covered the sun and it’s darker than a carload of assholes at 2:00 on a Thursday afternoon. The situation demands a cup of coffee (something I rarely drink), a fresh pack of smokes, and some Mark Lanegan. Better yet, make that a small glass […]

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