RustedRobot

Well, I guess it was ten years ago this week that Kurt Cobain made an unsuccessful attempt to ingest very quickly-moving lead for dinner. Not to exhaust the adage that “time flies,” but shit – time flies. In April of 1994 I was in my last year at Kent State and I had reached that [...]

There are two movies I’ve watched recently, both war related, that have really spurred my thoughts about war. Actually, it was one movie and one mini-series.
Be Good, Smile Pretty was a gut-wrenching documentary about Tracy Droz, whose father was killed in Vietnam only a few weeks after she was born. Her father, whose name was [...]

Celebrity musings:
How sad is everyone that Penelope’s last name will never be Cruz-Cruise?
How much money would I have paid to witness this in person? Oh, a lot. A lot. My favorite is the quote that set him off. Hilarious.
Sammy Hagar is back with Van Halen, according to an interview with Hagar this morning on the [...]

I’ve been meaning to mention here for a few weeks now how much I’ve been enjoying the Fox show Arrested Development. With any luck, they’ll not yank this great show off the air – they’ll give it some room to breathe and get the word of mouth thing going. I am convinced that if they’re [...]

I remember when the Republican governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, was running for office, one of his most oft-repeated promises was to bring job creation to our state. He said things like “I am a businessman, and I will bring a business-like approach to our state government.”
Well, he’s delivered on his promise. In very [...]

I am in the midst of a project right now that has quickly turned into one of the more difficult things I’ve come across in the last couple of years. It involves trying to pick some of my favorite songs of all-time. The goal is to narrow it down to somewhere in the neighborhood of [...]

Man, I’ve been dragging ass lately. Haven’t felt right since getting back from New York and the one day, 5am trip to Virginia didn’t help. Work is just insane – and that’s good – but there’s so much other stuff going on that I feel like I need to crawl into a dark corner and [...]