I start a lot of posts about running, but I almost never publish them. It’s difficult to find something useful to say about a subject that has been covered exhaustively by other runners and t…| clontzville.com
Last night I saw the Drive-by Truckers in Atlanta. They’re about as solid a rock-and-roll band as still exists, with a Southern country influence that feels difficult to find in rock music in 2024. They’re the best, and I try to see them every time they’re in town. I visited the merch booth at the […]| clontzville.com
My wife and I spent last weekend in Virgina Beach and driving up and down the Eastern Shore to a small town called Onley, VA (pop. 533). I have a lifelong love of shabby beach towns, though Virginia Beach is less shabby than most. High-rise hotels, wide boardwalk, soft sand. I paid $15 for an […]| clontzville.com
Getting a colonoscopy isn’t the worst thing in the world, but it’s one of the weirdest.| clontzville.com
One of the topics for which I’m willing to have a fistfight to the death is that “The Hunt for Red October” is one of the best movies ever made. I’ve seen it a whole bunch of times — it’s a mainstay on basic cable and can generally be found playing at least once in […]| clontzville.com
I’ve had times in my life where I was not only a gamer, I was a hardcore gamer. I considered gaming not only a hobby but an identity. Not a particularly cool identity, or one that I was especially proud of, but gaming is where I spent my time, money and attention. Today, the gaming […]| clontzville.com
“1984” is one of my favorite novels. I’ve easily read it six times, and I’ll surely read it several more before I pass on. For such an intense read, it’s a surprisingly quick one; no more than a couple of hours long. The story is told with such clarity and economy that there’s virtually no […]| clontzville.com
I ran the Publix Atlanta Marathon on Sunday for 11th straight time since 2014. It’s a surprisingly gnarly race, with more than 1,000 feet of elevation change, which often surprises folks from…| clontzville.com
If you can fix something, it’s always better to fix it than to buy a new one. I had an old Kindle Keyboard that had a mostly dead battery and decided to pop it apart and put in a new one. Sup…| clontzville.com
There’s reasonable concern in the world that AI is going to fill the internet with such a torrent of search-engine optimized crap that there’s not going to be much left of interest for …| clontzville.com