12/24/2024

A few years ago I stopped drinking. Mostly. I've shared a glass of beer with an old friend, and a couple of bottles of soju over dinner with the wife and a different friend this year, which reaffirmed ...

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12/10/2024

There’s a few things I absolutely do not like when I’m listening to an album—long sections of dialogue, tracks “hidden” after a long stretch of silence (an annoying fad in the CD days) and other things that aren’t ...

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12/01/2024

Autumn is here on the west coast, and along with it about two weeks of a runny nose, which has kept me the hell away from the gym, but also exacerbated the symptoms of seasonal depression. The month ...

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11/26/2024

Back in October I posted the J-Rock Session playlist, 3+ hours of bangers for BJJ, the weights, the track—however you work out.We'll start with a song for a video that appears on the above playlist: Hard Blow by ...

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11/12/2024

All the albums below are good front-to-back. That means no real stinkers to skip past, no tracks hidden after minutes of silence, no long dialogue sessions or skits. Just music. A few weeks back I was starting the ...

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11/03/2024

Over the past month I've been trying to avoid podcasts. I pay attention to politics closely, but even the shows I listen to that aren't about politics mention enough of it to annoy me. So I've been listening ...

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