
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)
