Snatchbags with guitars

We need to create a new term. For years, young men were the ones who picked up a guitar, learned three or four chords, and played bad, whiny music, preferably at parties or on the campus lawn, and preferably to get attention from females. The accepted term for these gentlemen is “douchebags with guitars”. But […]

Fuck CERN. Fuck 'em.

It cost $9.4 billion dollars to build. And now here they are, finally operating, in an attempt to recreate conditions right after the big bang. According to this article, they’re shooting particles at nano-FRACTIONS short of the speed of light. The point is to answer questions about the universe, about matter, etc. And they will […]

When Addiction to Creativity Becomes Destructive

My name is Christopher and I have a problem. In fact, it got so bad that I left my guitar with a friend to ensure I wouldn’t be tempted to use it for the rest of the week. It seems that two weeks ago, in rehearsing my new song “Blow” I banged up my vocal […]

On Dealing With the Low Points and Alone Points

There are many times in our lives when we find ourselves at an emotional low point. Or perhaps, shall we say, a lonely point. It’s all relative, of course, but you know it when you feel it. A strategy I often deploy is, “keep your feet moving.” My theory is that every low point is […]

There Are Too Many Bands

There are. Join me in a rampage and we’ll take a few of them down. Then off ourselves…

A Core Ethic

“What if everything you knew about yourself, and your temperament, and your motivations, and your core ethic, turned out to be wrong?” This was something I was wondering last night as I went to bed. I have always considered myself fundamentally good and kind, albeit entirely human — occasionally given to nefarious thoughts and behavior. […]