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Just a quick note…

WesT — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:51:28 +0000

…that I ended up spending most of the evening away from my desk doing necessary parenting and grownup things. Then when I got here, my limited time was spent doing prep for a big secret project I can’t talk about yet. I will scan this weekend’s scaly beasties and get ‘em posted tomorrow, with any [...]

Symphony of Science

WesT — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:23:00 +0000

I just had to share this, and I’d like it to stick around longer than a Tweet allows. You gotta see this:

Symphony of Science

My favorite of the series is We Are All Connected:

The beauty of a living thing

is not the atoms

that go into it

but the way those atoms

are put together.

The cosmos

is also within us

We’re made [...]

So this is the new year

WesT — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:24:20 +0000

…and I don’t feel any different. Or so say the lyrics to “The New Year” from Transatlanticism, a really stellar album from Death Cab for Cutie.

On the topic of music, I’ve got a recently discovered guilty pleasure to share: the album Ocean Eyes by Owl City. It’s sugary electronic pop, a sort of auditory cotton [...]

Random Finds for Random Minds

WesT — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:52:55 +0000

Taking a break from a long weekend of cleaning – and I’ll be back at work tomorrow, haha woo holidays, amirite? – to bring you some random arty stuff from the far reaches of the interwebnets:

Gigposters.com for all your concert poster needs!

No, really. It’s a website devoted to cataloging the best (and occasionally worst) of [...]

Reviewing in Briefs: This Is War

WesT — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:30:32 +0000

The third album released by American rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, this disc seems to split the difference between their eponymous debut and second album, A Beautiful Lie. The debut album was basically a rock soundtrack for the ultimate sci-fi movie that’s never been made (yet). It’s really great music to daydream or make [...]

Anniversaries…not always happy days.

WesT — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:47:10 +0000

We’re coming up on…what…three years since my little brother Michael died. I find myself thinking about him more often than you might expect. It’s a sobering, melancholy kind of thought – fitting, I suppose.

Like many other moments in life, this reminds me of a song.

“Jesus, here lies my brother Tortured and blown Stretch for the heavens and [...]