Division Day’s new album Visitation is due for release August 18, and I can hardly wait. The title track and “Devil Light” are true to the sound they established on 2007’s Bear Trap Island.
I recently put Bear Trap Island back on my mp3 player and was instantly reminded of how much I liked it [...]
It’s mid-July, and here come the tomatoes! Little grape tomatoes, pear-shaped yellow tomatoes, and gobs of the most ginormous tomatoes I have ever grown. The big one above is almost the size of a softball. This is only what I picked yesterday. A lot more are on the way. Soon we will [...]
Mr. Folkie and I were warned several times before our trip that food in China would be different from Chinese food in the U.S. This was true, but I think we were better-prepared than a lot of Americans in that we like trying unusual foods, and we eat and drink soy products as a [...]
There was no shortage of a variety of good, fresh food wherever we visited in China. A small grocery store around the corner from our hostel in Beijing carried an amazing assortment of chicken and duck eggs; and while their produce was not great, right outside in the alley was a huge selection of [...]
I hope you can stand some more photos from my China trip. I haven’t even scratched the surface of the images we took. Indie Mom said she wanted me to take a photo of everything we ate, and we nearly did. These are some of the things we saw and ate from [...]
In 2005 Mark Hamilton (wearing the hat in the photo above) returned home to Calgary from Scotland with a broken heart and a head full of inspiration that he poured into his band Woodpigeon. He is quoted as saying that Woodpigeon’s latest album, Treasury Library Canada, the followup to the 2008 debut Songbook, helped him [...]
Just try googling eye images for some squirm-inducing fun. That should prepare you for the literally eye-popping image that illustrates Contrast Podcast #171. I decided I would rather spend a ridiculous amount of time going through my own photos for a good eye shot. The above turned out to be my [...]
Here it is Friday again already. I meant to get at least one other post up this week, but other things got in the way. Boring things, but necessary. You know how that is.
Here are more photos from our China trip last month. T-shirts with English text can be seen [...]
I am celebrating the Fourth with a photo of my beautiful state flower, the golden poppy. These are from earlier this spring, but I still have a few hanging on against the summer heat.
While I picked these bands for the word “states” in their name, they are all U.S. artists, and each of these [...]
Better late than never, right?
First a disclaimer: I am sure that every tourist, no matter what their native language and wherever they go, encounters translations in other countries that display a lack of deep knowledge of their language. In every language there are subtle meanings that aren’t explained in word-to-word translation dictionaries.
So [...]