I saw Modest Mouse live 20 years ago today and published a review

My career as a music critic was extremely short — I only had a single article published, and it happened long, long ago. It was a review of a live rock show of the bands Les Savy Fav, Califone, and Modest Mouse. It took place 20 years ago today at the Middle East Downstairs in …

Today this blog is 10 years old — My thoughts on blogging

10 years ago on this date, I published the first blog post on this site. Now that I’ve been doing this for a decade, it seems like a good time to put the act of blogging itself under the microscope. So much of the digital world is a rosy, Instagram-curated non-reality. My goal for this …