Roman Numeral J

 merry christmas season y'all! 40 days and 40 nights ago (or so), we came into possession of a brand (new to us) 2004 Mercury Grand Marq...

 As you may have noticed, I've been on a bit of a Dolly kick lately.  We re-orchestrated a road trip to Georgia to include an evening an...

What do semicolons do, really? (That being said, it seems a real missed opportunity in modern American prose {modern poets use semicolons co...

 I am currently existing within a time period where I know which ubiquitous 90s song Sister Hazel is responsible for. (hint: "It's ...

 ... colored PIC--tures inthebottomofmymind... 13 years ago today, Matt Trease suggested I follow a set of instructions on Facebook to deter...

I've posted " on this date " posts since the very earliest days of RNJ (at least after one full cycle around the sun), and I f...

On this date in History - 13 years ago Today (frack i am old...) - I was That Guy (or possible This Guy, the record seems not entirely clea...

On this date in Roman Numeral J history in 2008, it was also an Oscar Sunday and I was watching, evidently.  I feel that my post-game Osca...

I love the Counting Crows - unironically, without nostalgia, although somewhat lazily.  It's been many years since I last saw them live...

Reading through The Wind Through the Keyhole tonight - the story (within a story) of the brave boy, Tim, on a grand quest.  In terms of vol...

Even on picking up this 10-disc, 2-book boxed set of the music of Haiti recorded in 1936-7 by folklorist Alan Lomax you are impressed by it...

The iPod undermines musical memory. If we think about Marshall McLuhan’s ideas that media are both extensions and amputations of humanity’...

I am a tech geek. Sure, not in the traditional sense of knowing lots about new technologies coming out, or always (read ever ) buying the la...

Last night we made the foray to Summerfest , via the East Side drunk bus. After some Happy Hour cocktails and crab cakes at Yield a large y...

Throughout most of the month+ prior to my previous post I had a lot of fine ideas for blog entries, but just never got around to blogging t...

Oh it's been too long. 21 Years in fact. That doesn't even seem like a reasonable amount of time to think about, but it's liter...

Tonight i went with my parents & brother Andy to what turned out to be, i think, one of the best five concerts i've ever seen in my ...

Yeah, Evan Dando really speaks to me... Thanks to Eric & Bethany for another blast of a Memorial Day Weekend party... I love the ide...

I just got back from seeing Project Object at Martyr's Bar... Damn good show, but one of those shows i go to where it just makes me fe...

Whenever i am asked to produce for someone my favorite movie, song, singer or book i find myself at a loss... Generally i make something u...