It's weird how in one moment you can go from being mildly interested in something to totally passionate about it. At least that's how it is for me. There is always some defining moment where, through some biochemical magic that I doubt science understands yet, something in your brain goes ...

Now that guitar isn't my main focus anymore, I've had time to rediscover my passion for weight training. For overall health and fitness, I've not found anything better. I don't mean flailing around with tiny pink dumbbells for endless reps, but (relatively) heavy squats, deadlifts, pull-ups, and all the ...

Over the next few days I'll be sharing some things that made an impression on me this year. The first is Colleen Wainwright's galactically awesome video "The Boulder: a song for the New Year." This video is about a year old, but as of today it's had fewer than 10 ...

I'm going to be making some massive changes here, and want to give my current readers -- all five of you -- fair warning. But first, some background: I started writing on the web about my passion for guitar 2003, and moved from a static website to this blog in 2006. ...