Dispatches from an Increasingly Irrelevant Demographic

Really, I'm Okay, Please Go On Without Me

My wife and I have a game we like to play when we watch Jimmy Kimmel. When the guests are announced at the beginning of the show, we play “How Many Have We Heard Of?” Kimmel usually has three guests each night. I’d say my average is about 33%

This Used To Be a Thing: the Telharmonium

The world’s first “streaming” music service.

This Used To Be a Thing: Newcomb Ball

Before Volleyball was Volleyball…

This Used To Be a Thing: Link-boys

Have torch will travel.

This Used To Be a Thing: Variable Time

When an hour wasn’t really an hour.

This Used To Be a Thing: Chapel Cars

The original Holy Rollers.

This Used To Be a Thing: the Spectro-Chrome

Let there be 12 colors of light!

This Used To Be A Thing: The Glass Armonica

Can’t History Just Lighten Up a Little Bit?

Caffeine and Goal Setting

Like most commute-weary suburbanites, I am a caffeine addict. And like most addicts, when your supply gets interrupted, you’ll resort to…

Brother Helping Brother: A Brewery Offers a Ray of Hope to a Lighthouse

[NOTE: this post originally appeared on my blog The Beerverse. I got THISclose to winning a North American Guild of Beer Writers award for…