By GW on 12/21/2010
This post’s dedicated to all the musicians of the world. I am a musician, though I don’t read music. I have good pitch, but play by ear; I started with guitar by learning how to play based on basic guitar chord charts and transferred my skills to piano by seeing what notes made up the [...]
Posted in Art and artists, Multimedia, music, Shopping, Uncategorized Tagged beginners, books, dvd, hobbies, learn, lessons, music, piano.guitar, play, theory, tutorials
By GW on 09/30/2010
We’ve did a nice round of de-cluttering in our house and ended up with many boxes of books. I have this box of assorted horror, medical thriller and legal thriller books for sale. Authors include Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, Peter Straub, Robin Cook and Michael Crichton. I wish to sell this as one [...]
Posted in Books, People I admire, pop culture, Shopping Tagged books, dean koontz, horror, michael crichton, paperback, peter straub, reading, sale, Stephen King, stories, thrillers, used
By GW on 01/10/2010
While watching a segment regarding the electronic revolution and the publishing industry on CBS Sunday Morning today (Out of Print, the Written Word Considered), something occurred to me. Some public library systems already loan electronic content like ebooks and audiobooks through a partnership with services like OverDrive, but they require reader software and the books [...]
Posted in Books, Call to Action, Pipe dreams Tagged books, ebook, libraries, library, reading, rental
By GW on 03/15/2009
I’m enjoying some Fireside Blend at Caribou this afternoon. With me is a Richard Bachman Stephen King book, Blaze: A Novel. I haven’t even cracked it open to read more yet, though; I keep seeing people I know and figure I can read a book any time, but some friends I rarely get to see. [...]
Posted in Books, friends, Local folks, Moblog, Photography Tagged books, Caribou Coffee, reading, Stephen King
By GW on 09/01/2008
I found a new (to me) blog yesterday, Homemade Grits. Lesley and her husband Sam are expecting a baby girl, Matilda. Soon! I stumbled upon her blog while doing a search for something I’d seen on CBS Sunday Morning. She has a whole entry about the show and I was drawn right in. I [...]
Posted in Blogs, Domestic stuff, Humor, People I admire Tagged adsense, bloggers, books, bookshelf, clean sweep, color, decorating, hoarding, Home Improvements, ideas, outdated, paint, painting, PMS, pregnancy blog, purging, schemes
