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Looking Into the Past

I love the convergence of old and new. There’s something kind of spooky and cool to hold an old record, or coin, and wonder about the people who have held it, enjoyed it, and used it. When I look at the people in old photographs, I try to get a sense of who they were, [...]

A Short History of Stax Records

Working in a record store, we get a lot of promotional stuff; posters, pins, stickers, whoopie cushions…whatever the labels think will get people talking about their artists. We also get T-Shirts. They are generally XL (record store nerds are generally big dudes, I guess), but over the years, I’ve collected a nice little handful of [...]

Tiny Miracles of Beauty

It snowed this morning. The central coast of California was touched, however lightly and fleetingly by snow crystals. You had to be in the hills to notice, and the “flurries” are long over, but all things aligned in the dark of the night to bring us a little snowstorm. Growing up in the Rockies, snow [...]

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Halloween

1. Halloween has it’s origins in the Celtic festival of Samhain, which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end.” The festival celebrates the end of the lighter half of the year and beginning of the darker half and is sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year. 2. The ancient Celts believed that [...]


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