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Thursday playlist: Fighting depression

by Farrell Fawcett

Summer is ending. Just typing those words depresses me. This post is about depression. I get depressed a few times a year and I’m sure most of you probably do too. It’s happening to me again. The days are getting appreciably shorter and the light is changing. Our tree [...]

Thursday playlist: Songs we played most

by Farrell Fawcett

Happy Valentines Day, lovers! Here follows a special special Valentine. The annual Fawcett/Honeycups mix. A bit of background is necessary.
Since 1995 I have been compiling an end of the year mixtape. During those first years it was sent out to just a handful of friends. As many of you know, [...]

Thursday playlist: Best music videos of 2007

by Farrell Fawcett

It’s a hard thing to compile a list like this. The great majority of music videos suck. And I’m a very intolerant critic. Which means there are precious few videos that make my year’s-end list. The ones that make the list meet certain criteria that I’ve honed over the years: First, a video can’t be [...]

Buenos Aires and the Bush daughters in heat

by Farrell Fawcett

Where do you go for spring break? I know the question is quite untimely, but deal with it, I wrote this a few months ago, but never got around to editing and linking it. Now with last week’s news that Jenna Bush is engaged to be married, this post is suddenly quite timely again. Not [...]

Ten things to remember when chasing down a burglar

by Farrell Fawcett

On a Saturday morning a few weeks ago we awoke to the sound of an ominous crash coming from the house next door. It sounded like glass breaking. Something was wrong. Our neighbor’s house had been unoccupied for the past month since she went to live with family after her 93 year [...]