Monday night I went to see my third “Zappa Plays Zappa” concert…
2006: Warner Theater, Washington, D.C.
2007: Ram’s Head Live!, Baltimore, Md.
2008: The Birchmere, Alexandria, Va.
This was part of of their “You Can’t Fit On Stage Anymore” tour – designed for the more devoted fans, it had a few things that you wouldn’t expect from a [...]

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This past Thursday I had the opportunity to meet Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. during an in-store event and book signing of More Information Than You Require, sequel to The Areas of My Expertise. Nice guy, and very funny too!
More photos of the event are up on [...]

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Woohoo! Traded in my MINI about two weeks ago towards a new one, and I just saw on the online status today that it’s now scheduled for production so now I’ve got a VIN and it should be built this week! It feels weird not driving a MINI in the meantime, but I’m happy with [...]

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Dad recently took this picture of Savannah, the same cat in the previous video post. Unfortunately, on Tuesday we had to have her put down — she had a tumor that made it hard for her to breathe, and since she couldn’t eat or drink and breathe at the same time, she had become very [...]

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