New Song: “(Take Me to a) Chain Restaurant”

A mere 16 months after our collaboration on a new version of “The East Ridge Song,” Ernie Paik and I have finished recording a new track. “(Take Me to a) Chain Restaurant,” a mid-tempo country anthem extolling the virtues of corporate dining, is easily the most countrified thing either of us have ever recorded — except for Ernie’s redonkulous keyboard solo, which, in my opinion, more than makes up for my pitchy drawl…

Listen to the song here.

(Song info and lyrics after the jump.)

Busted Outside My Office

A lady being taken away by police after a traffic stop in front of my building. 700 block of Broad Street.  March 23, 2009.

(Lo-res shot taken with my cell phone camera.)

OK, Dan, Fine.

Dan Lehr, a producer at Newschannel 9 and my former internship supervisor at the station, gently chided me via Twitter recently that while he would be glad to add my blog to the blogroll on his (very awesome) “Public Interest” blog, I needed to post more often.

While most of my online time as of late has been spent firing off one-liners on Twitter, I will do my best to ramp up my contributions here. I mean, this site is named after me. If I don’t do it, who will?

Stay tuned…

Newspapers and Impact

An brutally accurate assessment of the current state of newspapers by Doug Chapel, whose “Action Geek” comic was recently axed by Worcester Magazine:

There WAS a time when a newspaper could have actual IMPACT on its environment, but as of late, it’s easier just to be an easily palatable vehicle for advertisement instead of a hard-hitting, gutsy, opinionated, essential part of living where we live.

(HT: aan.org)

Merry Christmas from a Galaxy Far, Far Away

I think the following video sums up how I feel about each and every one of you. Or something…