Paul Cataldo – The Sentient Bean – 06/28/12

From The Sentient Bean: Paul Cataldo can be heard singing songs and telling stories about everything from alcoholism, war, poverty and jealousy all the way down the road to songs of peace and love. You can usually find him on…

Cait Black – The Sentient Bean – 07/03/12

Embedded songs from Cait Black and her ukulele.

An ESPLOST rant . . . [updated]

I’m all for increased spending on public education in the county, and I’m all for — at times — specific infrastructure upgrades. Raise my property taxes. Raise sales taxes that can also go to teacher hiring and general operations.


Carter Sampson – The Sentient Bean – 07/02/12

“Carter Sampson is an Okie born, Fayetteville, AR based singer-songwriter. Blessed by a musical legacy from a family that includes such talents as Roy Orbison, Carter’s journey as a musician seems to have been predestined.”

Ultraviolet Hippopotamus – Live Wire Music Hall – 06/30/12

I’ve never seen Ultraviolet Hippopotamus but have heard good things. I really like the upbeat sound of the album embedded here.

More good news for housing: Case-Shiller up in April

We are a long way from a “normal” housing market, whatever that will look like post-recovery, but the widespread price stabilization is good news for a variety of reasons.

Americans still driving less — but will the trend hold with lower gas prices?

“Travel on all roads and streets changed by -0.4% (-1.0 billion vehicle miles) for April 2012 as compared with April 2011. Travel for the month is estimated to be 247.2 billion vehicle miles.”

Facebook continues deceptions in its messaging service

If you look at your profile on Facebook today, you’ll possibly see a new email for yourself: [your Facebook user name]@facebook.com.

Georgia’s first diverging diamond apparently working as intended

American Aquarium, photos from Saturday’s gig at The Jinx

The set included the title track to “Burn.Flicker.Die.” (which I’ll probably mistakenly call “Redheads and Adderall” routinely), “Cape Fear River”, and — brace yourself — “Savannah Almost Killed Me”, which I’m fully expecting to become one of those defining songs for a certain segment of the local scene.

A few blog updates . . .

New posts at Peach Pundit, a new tumblr page, still looking for advertisers, plus a little other information and a few links.

A few thoughts on the Sandusky trial and verdict

If you’re tired of reading or hearing about Jerry Sandusky, please just skip this post.