Cool Thing - The AV Club's Undercover series. Bands choose a song to cover from a list compiled by AV Club editors. Once a song is covered, it can't be covered again for the series. I especially like...

Finally... More than rusty - I've been playing tennis lately, and I've really lost my touch. Maybe I was never that good, but then again, that would mean my whole high school tennis team was really...

Inspiration - I recently read Chris Ayres' War Reporting for Cowards. It's an overview of Ayres' career--from journalism school to an aborted stint embedded in Iraq at the beginning of the invasion...

Still at it - I'm sticking to my goal of taking a picture every day, and only one (1-22) was shot in a late-night photo panic. In the car - Nearly a year later, I only have 5,000 miles on my car. Maybe...

Regret - I didn't make any best of lists for 2009, and even if I had kept them to myself, it would have been nice to chronicle something. I do have a few favorites of the decade, including Sea Change...

First, a thank-you to the great tech support available at GBiotI headquarters. Now, a question...Wiretap is now available as a legal podcast. Why aren't you listening? But it can't all be funny...

Anniversary - It's one year of blogging here. Thanks for sticking around. Sign of adulthood - It's the time when all my friends start getting married. I went to a wedding with a date and was overjoyed...

Well, this is my 12th monthly 8. We're closing in on one year here at GBiotI. Practice - I'm trying to teach myself a better handwriting style. At some point I tried to mask my horrible penmanship...

Inside Baseball - Ken Silverstein's Harper's blog Washington Babylon is some of the best political reading around. I'll always be wonky, I guess. Mobile Reading - The Typography Manual app (no link...

Hey, it's 8 for the 8th month. Does that mean something? Achievement - In the last month two Smith-Corona Galaxie Twelve portable typewriters came into my possession. Neither worked. Now I have one...

Book - The Ten Cent Plague. In the 30s and 40s, the most popular comic books sold millions of copies and each copy was passed between 6 to 10 kids. The more violent comics eventually led to the comic...

Listening - The Age Of Persuasion is a CBC radio show about advertising. It's a 27 minute lecture on advertising history and theory delivered by Terry O'Reilly to your computer every week (if you search...

1. Shattered Assumptions - I don't generally like the 33 1/3 book series. I don't like reading about my favorite records. Liking music is different than understanding music. Knowing the historical references...

Magazine - I subscribed to the Utne Reader last month and I've already received the first two issues of the year. The ads are a bit odd (school of pet massage?), but each issue is a solid read. Solid...