I did an interview as my alter-ego, Oven Mitt Johnson, last night for Outsight Radio (http://www.new-sounds.com). Here’s the direct link to the show (the interview starts about 30 minutes in): http://www.new-sounds.net/mp3/ORH-20090126.mp3 . Enjoy!
Check it out!!! I’m so happy. I’d like to thank my family and friends and assistant winemakers, and everyone who drank my wine in 2008, and everyone else I know and you know who you are!
So, it doesn’t look like I’m going to be able to finish my 50,000 word novel this month. I don’t quite have 10,000 words now, and it’s November 18. Darn. The good news is that this is the most fiction I’ve written since college, and I’m having a lot of fun with it when I [...]
Alternative computer interfaces (i.e. other than keyboard and mouse) have become a bit of an obsession of mine lately. The primary reason for this new obsession is the recurring tendonitis in my right (mouse) wrist.
As far as my wrist health is concerned, the last two years have looked like this: months of pain, followed by [...]
Friday was the Gangster Fun reunion show! It was insane! We were really good. The only bad thing about the night was that the show was sold out before the doors opened, and so a lot of people (including some of my friends) who didn’t buy tickets in advance were turned away. If you were [...]
Happy New Year. As I’ve done every year since 2000 I hereby declare that I am hopeful that the future is officially started. I would also like to announce a new test for whether it is actually true. I’ve humbly named this test the Minnick Test of the Future. The test is quite simple: when [...]
For a reason that deserves its own post, I’m playing sax again after a 10 or 12 year hiatus. The hiatus started when I sold my last tenor sax to get some money to help pay for moving to California. I don’t regret that. It was a crummy sax, and I figured I’d get a [...]
Here’s the problem with blogging:
People who blog often sound like they’re obsessed with themselves (see my last post). The problem with that is that it’s normal to be obsessed with yourself (who else is going to be?), but sounding like you’re obsessed with yourself is frowned upon. So, there’s a conflict.
If you, as a blogger, [...]
Here’s something that’s been irritating me: ever since I discovered that a colleague/client of mine has a blog dedicated to making him the #1 search result for his name on Google, I’ve started to worry about how I’m not the #1 search result for “Chris Minnick”. To add insult to injury, the #1 result is [...]
Top 5 things I wish I could forget:
1. The songs from West Side Story
2. actually, I think that’s pretty much it. Just #1.