In response to my hubby’s recent tunequest post about Saint Etienne, I thought I’d share this. I discovered this groovy little band independently of him (I was actually in high school at the time) and I think it might be one of the reasons he decided I was cool. When we first started hanging out, [...]

A few years ago, the ‘band and I tinkered around with the idea of starting our own business via cafepress. The premise is pretty straightforward: the website offers a number of basic products (hats, shirts, clocks, aprons, etc.) at set prices. Users can create various designs (via photoshop or scanning original artwork or whatever) and [...]

So, thanks to our handy-dandy netflix account, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and I have been watching not only movies, but TV shows as well. He snagged some Simpsons, and I rewatched all of Angel. We’re now at the point in our queue where Netflix is sending us Season 1 of La Femme Nikita, a show I was totally [...]

So, I was shelving at work the other day when I stumbled upon a really interesting-looking book. Since I didn’t have anything to read that day, I checked it out and zipped through it that night. For some reason, I found it really moving–it’s the type of novel I’d like to own. Written by Leah [...]

A couple of years ago, my-wishes-to-remain-anonymous husband stumbled upon an interesting music community website called Audioscrobbler. The site would link to your iTunes library and iPod and would track the music you listened to. Based on the number of plays each artist received, it would rank your favorites and then find others in the audioscrobbler [...]