(Flickr photo by markkilner) Tonight’s New Years Eve festivities will be made a little brighter by a full moon in the sky, and a rare full moon at that. Normally, we see a full moon once a month. But once every two years, approximately, we see two full moons in one calendar month, on a [...]
Entries from December 2009
December 29, 2009
A Walk Outside
Today turned out to be a beautiful, albeit freezing, day. One of those deceptively cold days that looks mild and pleasant from inside, but the thermostat outside still reads 24°, 18° with the windchill. I just bought a polarizing filter for my Nikkor zoom lens a few days ago, so I decided to go for a walk when [...]
December 28, 2009
Heartless Bastards, neither heartless nor mean
For Christmas this year, F bought us tickets to see Heartless Bastards at the Southgate House in Covington, KY, just over the river from Cincinnati. Though they originally hail from Cincinnati, the blues-rock quartet has since relocated in Austin, TX, where their music seems to have found its natural fit. But the holidays bring musicians [...]
December 26, 2009
The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
For some time now, I’ve been a fan of Jon Krakauer and his adventure writing. In Into the Wild, he chronicled the mishaps of Christopher McCandless and his fatal foray into the Alaskan wilderness. (That book received more acclaim after Sean Penn made it the subject of his 2007 film of the same title.) In [...]
December 24, 2009
A makeshift speakeasy, an assortment of friends
Wednesday nights in Wilmington have adopted a regular routine of bowling and open-mic at the General Denver, both of which seem to keep growing as the weeks go by. Last week, though, was the last Open Mic Night for at least a few weeks, so Mark and Taylor decided to fill the late night void [...]
December 22, 2009
Such neglect
Oh, blog, how I have neglected you in weeks past. I’ve kept myself busy writing in other places (infidel!), spending time with friends and family in these Holiday months, and reading no fewer than three books at once. I’ve also semi-revived a music-playing routine with F, which has been refreshing; Strange how you miss the [...]
December 5, 2009
The ins and outs of Digital Single Lens Reflex
This Thanksgiving, I did something I never thought I would do and, in fact, almost always try to avoid: I went shopping on Black Friday. I didn’t stake a tent outside of a Big Box store or sprint to the $5 DVD bin, but I ventured into the mayhem nonetheless and it was a great [...]
