
Category: Me, me, me, it’s all about me


Is This Sabbatical a Trap? (or: the Effects of Capitalist Brainwashing)

That Time I Was in a Movie With Barbara Hershey and Sam Shepard

You Know You’re Old When They Put You in a Museum (or: Ever Get the Feeling You’ve Been Cheated?)

I Don’t Want No Peace, I Need Equal Rights and Justice

Merry Christmas, You’re Fired! Or Maybe Not. We’re Not Sure. Check Back in a Month. Maybe We’ll Know Then.

Discovering Bob Marley’s Natty Dread Album, Rastafari, and Myself

Don’t Speak (or: Human Rights Are Not *Political,* They’re Human Rights!)

Wonderful Things I Found Accidentally (or: Don’t Ever Be Too Cool to Be Surpised)

Half the World May Want Me in a Grave, but I Ain’t Digging It

How I Had Early Glimpses of the Future That I’m Living in Now (Sorry, It Made Sense When I Started Typing It)

Let Fury Have the Hour, Anger Can Be Power Or, It’s Sometimes Difficult to Let Go of the Shitty Parts of Yourself)

Penetrate the Message (or: Becoming One with a Piece of Music)

Where Did Hannah XX Come from and Why Is She Here?

Move with Joy (or: Buying a Bike)

It’s Getting Better All the Time (It Can’t Get No Worse) (or: I’m Not as Angry as I Used to Be)

When Should Loyalty Be Set Aside? (or: Has My Lifetime of Brand Loyalty Been a Terrible Mistake?)

Vacation, All I Ever Wanted, Vacation, Had to Get Away (or: We’re Going to Be Tourists in Los Angeles, Our Home Town)

Organized? Of Course, I’m Organized, What Are You Talking About? (or: Look at My Desk Why Don’t You)

I Said I’d Do What?! (or: Sometimes You Don’t Want to Do Things or Go Places but You Promise to Go Anyway)

A Post That Doesn’t Mention Guitars Even Once (Well, with the Exception of the Title) (or: Changing Your Name Is a Very Involved and Time-consuming Process)

More Songs about Buildings and Food (or: Ayin and I Are Actually Cooking Food These Days)

Sitting Here in Limbo, but I Know It Won’t Be Long (or: It Took Nine Months to Get My Social Security Card and Replacing All My Credit Cards Is Taking Almost as Long)

It’s All Too Beautiful (or: Going to Walmart When You’re High)

Plug Me in Coach, I’m Ready to Play (or: I’m Writing a Book about My Days as a Musician)

Sick Day

Houston, We Need a Bigger Kitchen. And a Much Larger Refrigerator While You’re at It. Over. (or: It Seems like You Need More Stuff If You’re Going to Cook Your Own Food)

How to Choose to Do Nothing and Successfully Get Nothing Accomplished in One Easy Step (or: Allow Me to Introduce My Patented Do Nothing™ System)

Tickling the (Plastic) Ivories (or: I Want to Learn How to Play the Piano so I Bought One, Now I Have to Learn)

Inching Toward Nirvana (or Something) (or: I’m Losing Weight. On Purpose.)

Asleep at the Wheel (or: Missing out on That Job I Wanted)

I’m a Third of the Way Through a One Hundred Days Blogging “Challenge,” And It Feels as If It’s Just Begun, so I May as Well Keep Going until the Proverbial Wheels Fall off This Train. I Was About to Ask If Trains Have Wheels, but of Course, They Do.

The Last Word on the Christmas Cabin, I Promise

The Ranger’s Station Cabin in Lake Arrowhead

Dig It (or: Snowed in at Lake Arrowhead)
