I’ve recently had the honor of being included as a contributing editor for The Drop. A fantastic group of friends and strangers that listen and think and write and love. You can check out our Best of 2009 Podcast and my “About Me” Page and then poke around and stay tuned; we have some things [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Auditory Year
Posted in Friends, Interwebs, Music on December 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Favorite Albums of the Decade
Posted in Music on December 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I’m not going to numerically order these albums, I’ll leave that to others. Each of these albums is too close to my heart, too much tied to the last ten years of my life. I have also resisted using the term “best” because some people say that Green Day or Coldplay made the “best” album [...]
Generational Defense: The (Externalized) Failure Edition
Posted in Generational Defense (or, Age Ain't Nothing But a Number) on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After a stirringly compassionate and informative presentation on the demographics of our student populous, that included the psychological reality of externalizing failure (after you have failed so often you expect to fail, then as a defense you blame someone/something else) and the place it plays in our students psyches, an older instructor asked if that [...]
