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Engines Guest Episode
No pressure, but can you, a complete radio novice, write and record a tribute episode for your dad that will air nationally?
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Quarantine World
Mid May. The world has shutdown. We’re locked in our pods. Got a text from my friend, singer Danielle Reich, about doing a remote duet. We settled on the…
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An Unearthed Journal Joins Social Media
A lost journal discovered. The fates of books. The fate of fate.
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Brain Drains
Learn, forget, learn, repeat
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The 50
What was supposed to be an off-the-cuff post turned into a multi-week, all-consuming research project. If you make it to the end of this, you will conclude two things:…
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Oregon
My family travels into two rental cars across Oregon. What a state. The place is nice too.
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The Orgo Experience
It's Wednesday, 5pm, and I'm nervously awaiting my grade in Organic Chemistry, the class I've been quietly suffering through since January. I've been getting anxious, speculative texts from classmates…
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RIP Dana Rogers
In memory of Dana Rogers, a gifted musician, an Army veteran, a warm and sharply funny friend.
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Square Wave Oscillator with Op Amp
Playing with circuits. Trying to build a synthesizer. Caution: I'm a NOOB.
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Houston Rap, The Book
On the Walker/Beste book, "Houston Rap"
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No Rhyme, No Reason: Farewell, George Duke
We all have our idols and today one of mine fell. George Duke, the veteran pianist, producer, and songwriter, passed away last night in Los Angeles at the age…
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Leonard(o) on the Move
A chunk of Limestone, Leonardo Da Vinci, Underwood typewriters, Latin, David Benioff, Sunsets.
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Postlude
Midnight and a sky filled with eyes. Jupiter, Betelgeuse, Sirius, all uninhibited and pulsating, reminders to look beyond petty concerns. Like playing in a listening room filled with patrons too…
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Arctic
A soundscape that uses a Melodica and Arvo Part influences.
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25 Things, a meme reborn
During the year that I was on Facebook (2009), I participated in the viral survey called “25 Random Things About Me”. The idea behind it was simple: you list…
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Cloud Shmoud
Spent today immersed in the software side of social media and mobile. Very timely stuff of course, though I couldn't get as excited as everyone else about putting web…
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August
The sun pounds the earth into a dustbowl. The grass turns to straw. In a town known for its brutal summers, it’s now the hottest, driest August on record.…
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Manolo
Last night we ditched a planned movie outing to go wandering through the Galleria. The appeal of the Apple Store is always great, and yet it always disappoints. There,…
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The Zachary Breaux Jazz Fest (Jazz Where Least Expected)
Many years ago, guitarist Zachary Breaux took a vacation with his wife and three daughters to the sandy beaches of Florida. As they meandered along the shore the group…
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The Bufos are Back
It’s late spring and the toads have returned. Every April thousands of breeding-obsessed amphibians invade our neighborhood for an extended game of Where’s-the-tadpole? These fat little lumps, better known as the…
