This Seattle is not any Seattle I expected. My expectations were limited to knowledge of: a tv show I did not watch is set here; a comic book series I bought ten years earlier was also set here; a game company that published a game I had heard of but never played & also published... Continue Reading →

Amtrak did not have any transatlantic routes in the mid- to late- 1990’s.

In the 1990’s I still listened to new music pretty regularly, and one of the bands I always made time for was Black 47. Black 47 took its name from the worst year of the starvation attack on the Irish, “those dark and deadly days.” Black 47 is people music, not very patient with the... Continue Reading →