Could it have been any other? I was watching this as it happened, along with millions of others, and I’ll not soon forget it. It is still moving to watch it two months later.

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In the fall of 1983, I bought my first real heavy metal album. I went to the local Alco store and bought the cassette that started it all. Even in the days before the internet and streaming music, I rarely bought an album without having heard at least one song from it. [...]

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It seems over the last several years I have read less each year. Not by choice, but simply due to lack of time. If I hadn’t knocked out a few in the last month, I probably would have read fewer books this year than I had in probably 10 years. But it [...]

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I would like to wish everyone a Happy Festivus. Okay, enough of the pleasantries. I wanted to do this post but waited until the last minute, and so I will probably think of more later that didn’t readily come to mind. Nevertheless, here’s my list of people that I’ve got a lot [...]

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Last night in a win over Evansville, North Carolina senior Travel Hansblow Tyler Hansbrough, as expected, became the all-time leading scorer in Tar Heel basketball history, ending Phil Ford’s 30-year reign.
Hansbrough is also on pace to pass Duke’s J.J. Redick as the all-time leading scorer in the ACC, provided he remains healthy and finishes the [...]

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This is the final installment of my “year in music” series. Part 1 I posted last week, and part 2 was on Monday.
If I posted these lists from this pool of music again in a year – or even in a month – it very likely would be at least somewhat different. I [...]

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Last week I started this series with part 1, and today I continue with part 2 – the “second ten” – on my way to my favorite album of the year. All of my harder music fell in this part of the list this year, while my top ten is heavier with singer/songwriter types. [...]

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It’s the time again that I post my favorite music of the past year. This year I’m making it a three-part post. As usual, I’m posting my favorites from the year, the stuff I listened to and enjoyed the most. Only one of the albums on these lists was not released in [...]

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Some random stuff…
Listening
Due to a recent AmazonMP3 sale I acquired the new Coldplay EP (99 cents) and the new release from Metallica ($5).
Coldplay’s Prospekt’s March EP is fine, nothing to get too excited about. It’s basically a few leftover songs that didn’t make the Viva La Vida, plus a few remixes of songs that [...]

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