Posts categorized as Love & Like

A digital book offers its reader a number of practical advantages to carrying around a physical copy. Bookmarks in the cloud, definitions at your fingertips, scalable design, digital highlighting and note taking, weight and space savings—the list goes on and [...]

In our building, there are several other tenants. One of those neighbors is Mike “Bubba Summs” Summers—publisher of the Fort Wayne Reader. Because of a past review he did on some Syfy show, Mike now receives some amazing promotional materials [...]

With all of the mobile and smartphone apps out there, how do you decide which ones to install? Well, that’s a good question. All of us here at OLG have our personal faves. We thought we’d share our personally curated [...]

Last September, I was approached by the sultry-voiced, super-rad @CarrieBoylan about participating in a new show she was pitching to NIPR, our local NPR station. The proposed show—Under the Influence—would feature local folks picking ten songs that have been influential [...]

Here’s what’s been hittin’ my ears most often this 2011: 1. Screeching Weasel, First World Manifesto Anyone who knows me shouldn’t be surprised by this pick. I honestly thought this release was gonna be sub-par. It was (another) new lineup for [...]

Unfortunately, I’ve been down with the flu and my year-end wrap-up is gonna be less word-y than I’d hoped and planned. What you’re missing: the same hyperbolic fawning you could find on my 2010, or 2009, or 2008, etc list, [...]

5. Grandaddy – Sophtware Slump The theme of this album is also one that I feel is symbolic to my autobiography. Lyrically, it directly addresses man’s struggle with our modern ways. The idea of coming to terms with technology by [...]

Tears for Fears: Songs from the Big Chair (1985) Tears for Fears formed the year I was born. The remains of a British punk band called Graduate. They produced music as a song-writing duo who brought in talent as needed [...]

In no particular order, my top 5 gotta-take-with-me-to-a-desert-island albums are Ramones S/T, Screeching Weasel “Thanks You Very Little”, The Queers “Later Days and Better Lays”, The Riverdales “Phase 3” and Chixdiggit “Pink Razors”. Screeching Weasel: Thank You Very Little I’ll [...]

N.B. For me, numbers ten through six can change hourly, daily, moving as far up as spot five or four. Also, I try to limit this list to one album per artist. Blood on the Tracks was actually Time out [...]