http://tsuibhne.net Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:29:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The below is a batch of disjointed thoughts that flow in a similar vein. As I said before, ideas are still gestating, but I just had an interesting idea pop into my head and I'd like to get it down before it gestates into nothingness. ----------------------------------------------------- A year or two ago ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/07/13/thoughts-from-portus/ I guess Portus is over now. There is still the Post-Portus Dance Party which starts in about three hours, but the name kind of implies that it really shouldn't be counted. The weekend was... interesting. Apparently at some point I pissed off Eris again and she decided that this ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/07/13/portus-not-a-review/ On my 18th birthday a friend gave me two books, The Toa of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff (still one of the best introductions to Taoism as far as I'm concerned), and All I Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum. That evening was the beginning of ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/07/07/test-show/ So I'm looking down the barrel at one hell of a fun couple of weeks. While my luck didn't grant me the privilege to head down to Orlando this weekend for the Nerdapalooza festivities, it has tossed me a few bones to compensate. First up, this Saturday is the DC ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/07/01/live-music-heaven/ The Devil's Snare Lauren Fairweather buy here (scroll down) For those who are not up to date on their Wizard Rock (WRock) knowledge, Lauren Fairweather is one half of the WRock group The Moaning Myrtles. About a year ago Lauren started writing songs outside of the Myrtles and The Devil's Snare is ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/06/08/wrock-or-grock/ As we have seen across the book, convergence culture is highly generative: some ideas spread top down, starting with commercial media and being adopted and appropriated by a range of different publics as they spread outward across the culture. Others emerge bottom up from various sites of participatory culture ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/06/07/new-traditions/ When I posted on this site over a year ago, and said that I would start posting about things other then music I followed that post up with three posts about music. Since I am nothing if not predictable, let's make a post about music. The first sign that ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/05/09/leaks/ When I started Headphone Sacrament it was as an experiment. I'd played around with blogs before, but I could never get one off the ground. My past attempts had involved a scattershot approach where I posted what ever the hell I felt like posting. With HS, I ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/05/06/free_geek/ I had intended to spend this weekend, the first non-working weekend I've had since January, writing up a big music/culture post, but then Jason posted a couple of questions to clarify my thoughts on my response to his post and they were such cool questions that I couldn't help by ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/04/04/questions-answered/ I think I may end up just biting the bullet and putting up a Lizz category. Seriously. Wrock Fans by ~lizzilicious on deviantART The above picture is one Lizz took at a Harry and the Potters concert. Props have to be given to Lizz for taking a great picture, but ... http://tsuibhne.net/2008/04/01/stories-in-pictures/