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We had recurring dance parties, too. Every now and again, I’ll fire up iTunes or Pandora and just dance with the kids. (As my long-time fans know, the only time I feel alive is when I dance.) We’ll just crank up the Pretenders and rock out. One night, I had my iTunes going and So

I figured we should have some music going while we worked, so I pulled my car around, and turned up the ’70s cha

When it comes to music mixes like Songza and Pandora, we’ve got to get our playlists straightened out. The whole Songza theme playlist for waking up with energy on a Sunday morning, throwing a summer barbecue and so on, has one fatal flaw. Shortly after I moved to my current home, I was out playing ball with the kids in the backyard and enjoying myself for a few moments. I went back into the kitchen where Lynette was listening to “Pe

Who likes both those songs? I don’t know one person that enjoys the simple beauty of “Pe

I’m going to invent an app that inserts those buffer songs into predetermined playlists, so if the playlist builder felt some Satanic urge to include “Hurts So Good” after a classic and make my ears hurt so bad, the computer will override it and jam something mediocre into the mix so I don’t get the bends. This way, as you’re listening to music it’s not like getting plucked out of a Jacuzzi and shoved into a snowbank. And the definitive not-great-but-not-terrible buffer song is “Main Street.” Which is why I’m naming the app Seegr.

Both of my kids are involved in sports. Some of which I approve, others I think are a waste of time and are going to turn my kids into pussies and prima do

I’ll start with the parents.

Maybe it’s because I’m in Los Angeles, but I’ve had an assful of “cool” parents. The ones who put their kids in T-shirts of bands they listened to when they were younger. I sincerely doubt that your fourteen-month-old is really into Motorhead or Run DMC. This is you jacking off, hoping someone else at the soccer game will tell you that you’re cool. But it just shows that you’re desperate. So