Rediscovering my "Lost Albums"

I think we all have albums from our past that we don't want to ever recognize that we loved as teenagers. The albums you hear on the radio from time to time - when you hear them you think How did I ever think this was good? Stuff that is so patently bad that for a moment you question the whole of your taste in music? I think mine were Bush and Alanis Morrissette. My aversion to these albums caused me to lump everything that I liked at that time together in a whole pile of musical bad - something I wanted to sweep under the proverbial rug and forget about.

Well, a recent gift from Jen helped bring some of this forgotten, or "lost" music out, and back into my listening repertoire. A few weeks back, she surprised me with this album:

The New Yorker, August 9, 2010

Articles
Talk of the Town
Comment: Leaks, by Amy Davidson (p. 21)
Dept. of Bivalves: Afloat, by Raffi Khatchadourian (p. 25)

Reading and Me

I don't think this will come as any major surprise to you, reader: I love to read.

Conclusion of Summer School

Remember when you were in High School, and the term "summer school" had strongly negative connotations? It's where the bad kids went - and the good kids were threatened with it if they didn't "get their act together." Well, I never wanted to go to summer school in high school, but I confess to you that I love summer school in my undergraduate and graduate work.

Unplugged Challenge Video

Not to toot my own horn, but check out my video in the Unplugged Challenge:

Your Brain on Computers - The Unplugged Challenge

Also, Michelle Francl's submission is pretty darn interesting!

Times for the iPad Thoughts

I received an email yesterday from Sam Duncan about a little app for the iPad called, simply, Times. Times for the iPad is another feed display app, so that it takes my favorite feeds from the web, and presents them in one easy to use, reference, and read spot. As a matter of fact, here's how The Dean Files looks in it:

Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions

Jen and I love going to exhibitions here in Fort Worth, because (for the most part) they are free and consistently wonderful. I would like to focus on a few of our recent favorites, and then talk about one upcoming show. All of these shows either have been, are, or will be at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.