Friday, April 1st, 2011
You are my favorite live band. I saw you play twice in Winston-Salem North Carolina, and those shows were unforgettable. Then I moved to Denver, where I’ve lived for almost five years. I haven’t seen you play in five years. Will you come to Denver?
Sincerely,
Joe
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Joe, Rock |
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
…online dating sites assume that people are easy to describe on searchable attributes. They think that we’re like digital cameras, that you can describe somebody by their height and weight and political affiliation and so on. But it turns out people are much more like wine. That when you taste the wine, you [...]
Joe |
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
So, I’ve been playing a lot more chess lately. Now that I’m playing more, I’m more comfortable taking risks, and I’m losing more, and I’m winning more too.
Joe |
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Mt. St. Helens blew up 30 years ago today. I remember putting a bandana over my face and sweeping ash from the sidewalk of my parents’ Portland home.
Would you rather die in a volcano eruption, a tsunami, an earthquake, a flood, a hurricane or a tornado?
Mt. St. Helens blew up 30 years ago today. [...]
Joe, Online Polls, Oregon, Places, Portland, Washington |
Monday, April 26th, 2010
I had a ticket to Wednesday’s Avett Brothers show at the Boulder Theater. I couldn’t go, and so I went to craigslist to sell the ticket.
I didn’t want to sell it to the first person to email me … that’s boring. So I wrote this in the post: “If you want the ticket, send [...]
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
If I had a Tim Tebow Broncos Jersey, man, now would be the time to sell it on ebay.
Joe |