A Family Exploring the World of Fandom Together
While graduate school took up most of my time this year, I decided to go to some concerts this year. Well, I usually decided that every year, but this year I made that decision more often than most years. Um, yeah. The first show I saw this year was Neutral…
Because we have been in graduate school for the last two and half years, we have not posted much. Books and papers took up most of our time. That does not mean we did not have fun. We have made many trips to Florida and Texas, spent a month in…
Record Store Day 2014 did not start out very well. Spring colds wrecked our sleeping schedule. We woke up after most of the stores opened, which is an ominous sign if you want rare releases. In addition, we had a five hour trip ahead of us to Panama City, which…
It sounds better. It has more warmth. Life is full of surface noise. The artwork is better. It is how music should be heard! Those are the arguments usually made by people who collect vinyl. The first two are hard to prove. Yes, life is full of surface noise but…
Wow, it’s been awhile! I have missed you, cooktraveleat. Alas, my grad school work and my full time teaching job leaves me negative amount of time to blog. It’s enough I remember to breathe and eat. But I am on my winter break, so I’ll try to squeeze a few…
The next morning was an early morning and when we landed in Normandy, we landed at Sword Beach, where the British 101st Airborne launched their invasion on D-Day. Our first stop was to Pegasus Bridge, where, right after midnight on 6 June 1944, the British 6th Airborne Division, pulled in…