September 5, 2025: Friday 10

September 5 is here, and that means it’s time to put my music player on shuffle and for you guys to guess the artists and titles! As always, the rules: As with last time, you have until next Friday to guess. Then I’ll post the answers, and that’s it! And if you want to see…

August 29, 2025: Friday 10

Let’s take another week to set my music player on shuffle and see if you guys can guess the artists and titles! There’s lots of great stuff in the list today, so here are the rules: As with last time, you have until next Friday to guess. Then I’ll post the answers, and that’s it!…

August 22: Friday 10

Fun fact: I’ve been blogging since before the social media boom made blogs a seemingly-quaint curiosity, and I’m thrilled to see Gen Z (and last-wave Millennials) turning to blogs as a way to reclaim their internet experience from social media. I got into blogging because of my brother. In those days, he was Thudfactor, and…

I’ve Got a Tape I Want to Play

I’ve Got a Tape I Want to Play

We had fallen into a habit where music was either the background hum of our day-to-day lives, or just a little reward for doing the things we all have to do. You either put on some music in the background while you’re working, cooking, driving — or you put it on while running those chores to help encourage you to actually do them.