David used to poke fun at this music box: "My mother put me to sleep with a war song!"
Awwww.
David would have turned 41 years old today, so to celebrate, I went flying! Flying photos forthcoming.

As I pulled into the driveway of my friends’ house near Lake Wallenpaupack, Pennsylvania, about half past midnight or so, the thought occurred to me: “Damn, I just got in my car and drove for eight hours straight!”
Which sounds ridiculous, but I’ve done it so many times it doesn’t seem like much of an accomplishment [...]

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Oy, what’s with the extraneous punctuation?
–as seen at Wings & Wheels 2008, Downsview - Toronto.

I like the Welsh singer Duffy’s retro sound and the dancing in this video. (She’s also got a killer set of dimples.)
Long live Motown!
–as seen in my Rolling Stone’s New Music podcast.

Kittens* were crawling up into Natalia’s shirt so she extracted delivered one.
See what happens when you consume too much sugar?

“With or Without You” from “U2 Medley” by Doyle Dykes. Sungha Jung is 10 years old at this recording, believe it or not. You might be thinking “hey, anyone can learn one song really well”, but do a YouTube search and you’ll see many other uploaded songs played by Sungha, including this one — Eric [...]

Today (Sunday night) all the crazy hours of the past five days or so caught up with me and I had a five hour nap! I really needed it. The weather in Toronto the past couple of days has been incredible and the weekend was packed with activities! I’m still downloading photos from the memory [...]

It’s 6 o’clock on Saturday morning and I have yet to go to bed. Why? I think my body is in some form of sugar shock.
A bunch of us invaded Maria’s place like a band of modern-day pirates, except we didn’t make off with anything except bellies full of nachos, pasta, cocktails, champagne, and a [...]