For years, I have wondered to myself, “where is the audio-only version of [Twitter/instagram/TikTok/etc…]?” In articles or blog posts where I would hope to find the answer, I would only ever find explanations of why audio was decidedly not a viral format. Viral or not, it has always seemed to me that there’s enough appreciation…
Month: February 2021
02/11/2021: vinyl
A couple months back while on a morning run, I came upon what looked to be a neighbor’s moving day trash. Sticking out of the pile and catching my eye was a mid-90s SONY stereo, resplendently protected from the elements in its original cabinet–one of those old rolly things with the components on top and…
02/10/2021: (national) pizza night
As the kids’ Highlights magazine made known to us, yesterday was National Pizza Night. I’ve made pizza in the electric pellet smoker a few times now and, together with the kids, I was looking forward to observing such a fun event. Having the meal on the calendar, it was also a good opportunity for me…
02/09/2021: children’s singer-songwriter Tim Kubart
For Christmas, Santa brought Matteo his first guitar, a cool little acoustic uke-like thing made by a Kickstarter’ed company called Loog. Like seemingly everything else these kid/music-related these days, it’s not only a physical instrument, but a complete learning system including an app and all the requisite social properties. The YouTube channel features a bunch…
02/08/2021: the Yamaha SK100
I re-activated my Facebook account Saturday to post a couple of things to Marketplace. Glad to report that while the working SONY stereo w/ turntable that I brought in off the curb is still not gone, the double stroller is GONE–another step forward. Whilst on FB Marketplace, I came upon an ad for a free…