On Watching Headbangers Ball as a Fifth Grader, and Other Topics This list. Christ, this list. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. I mean, the eyeballs of my sixteen-year-old self would not be recoverable, they would have rolled back so hard. It’s not alllll bad but collectively, it sucks. It’s…

Highlights: Neutral Milk Hotel, Yo La Tengo, Elliott Smith, and Tool. Bonus: More Remembering Headbangers Ball. Also I read Lance Armstrong’s autobiography and lived to write about it. Okay, this next segment is quite a doozy, and I don’t have a lot of good things to say about it. It…

Also known as my time without Pearl Jam For a handful of years in the mid-1990s, the good people at Colby College in Waterville, Maine thought it fit to give me and my best friend Kristina access to the airwaves for far more weekly hours than was probably prudent. We…

There are so many more to go, but let’s wrap up this portion already. I am just going to be out with it. I can’t stand Sublime. Have you ever seen the movie Clue? I hope so, and if not go watch it and come back. It’s worth it. Tim…

I don’t know if you were ever as entranced by Greek mythology as I was circa 1992, bored out of my mind, waiting for my braces to come off, and for the torture of junior high to be over. …

Physicist and chemist Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867. No, that’s not her. It’s not possible to predict the decay of individual radioactive particles, as it is a random process, but the parent nucleus produces a daughter nucleus. …

There is nothing like staring down at an exquisitely vulnerable, miniature version of yourself every day to make you want to get your shit together. I have realized far too late in life that when you have a miniature version of yourself running around, watching everything you do, you kind…

16. You Oughta Know -Alanis Morrissette (Jagged Little Pill, 1995, Maverick and Reprise) I don’t like this song, though I suppose I did the first couple of times I heard it. Then it was several hundred more times, and several hundred more after that, and I do not like it…

Nicolas Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473. He wrote the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). You guys remember learning about heliocentrism, yes? I have nothing more to say about this but sometimes, when I like to feel very small and infinitesimally insignificant…