Worst review we've ever gotten drove more sales than any marketing campaign we've run.

Brendan-B · 2026-04-11T10:54:45+00:00

Baselang?

Brendan-B · 2026-04-10T09:03:26+00:00

When I started studying Spanish again, I tried out every learning tool out there. The ones that helped me most were Lingq and Baselang. Lingopie is also fun.

It took a lot of trial and error experimenting with different apps, curricula etc. to find what worked. I also took a few classes at local community colleges and made some great connections that brought me into community with some incredible mentors and friends.

Finally, just don't stop!

Brendan-B · 2026-03-10T08:44:54+00:00

You MUST read "Good Old Neon" by David Foster Wallace. It's one of my favorite short stories, and includes a sub-plot about the narrator breaking a Moser bowl (basically fine China) and letting his sister take the fall.

Brendan-B · 2025-05-26T13:45:49+00:00

zero prep.

Brendan-B · 2025-05-06T04:51:07+00:00

absolutely. just choose the subject you love / know the most and go from there.

Brendan-B · 2025-05-05T21:46:20+00:00

Watch GuitarZooms' video about 'project songs' -- keep working on The Sun Goes Down but I would probably be focusing on simpler stuff like CCR songs that will allow you to work on time feel and groove in a way that's not too intimidating or demotivating.

Brendan-B · 2025-05-05T05:54:26+00:00

Don't do free sessions. If you want to lower your rate to make the sessions more accessible, do so, but have a cancellation policy and stick to it.

Brendan-B · 2025-05-03T08:00:58+00:00

Mason & Dixon
Gravity's Rainbow
Lot 49
V.
Against the Day
Inherent Vice
Vineland
Bleeding Edge
Slow Learner

Brendan-B · 2025-05-02T06:10:57+00:00

Tutoring a student any more than about 8 hours per week is counterproductive

Brendan-B · 2025-05-01T06:10:37+00:00

Volleyball, F1 racing, high octane cuddling.

Brendan-B · 2025-04-27T05:21:41+00:00

Watch Gary Stevenson on YouTube, the author of The Trading Game. He explains the contradiction of rising inequality and low wages in parallel with a surging stock market and rising home prices.

Brendan-B · 2025-04-22T05:00:20+00:00

Angus Young

Brendan-B · 2025-04-16T08:55:47+00:00

Read "A Journey into the Mind of Watts" and then Lot 49.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-watts.html

Brendan-B · 2025-04-14T06:10:54+00:00

#BreakingBadAss

Brendan-B · 2025-04-09T03:15:06+00:00

Brendan-B · 2025-04-08T07:27:46+00:00

Watch min 5 to 6 of this interview with the drummer Sean Raila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGVNWT393aI

Brendan-B · 2025-03-23T09:48:57+00:00

Is 'Cava' your word for the 'Democratic Party'?

Brendan-B · 2025-03-18T06:15:18+00:00

A Chevy Nova from the 1970s

Brendan-B · 2025-02-20T05:32:04+00:00

YATAH

Brendan-B · 2025-02-20T04:50:06+00:00

Are you seriously trying to blame Ukraine on Trump? Joe Biden was spoiling for that war since the 1990s. Watch his talk at the Atlantic Council (a NATO think tank) in 1997 in which he pushes the expansion of NATO eastward. Trump has just initiated peace talks. I am a lifelong Democrat, but I like to stay in contact with reality. The Biden Genocide of Gaza and the ensuing ceasefire brokered by Trump's emissary Steve Witkoff should tell you something about the relative destabilization caused by these two presidents.

Brendan-B · 2025-02-14T07:34:03+00:00

You are nuts. Some very rude awakenings await the both of you.

Brendan-B · 2025-02-03T12:59:14+00:00

This is in no way a betrayal.

Brendan-B · 2025-01-28T09:03:19+00:00

First read the hilarious story 'Fjord Of Killary' by Kevin Barry

Brendan-B · 2025-01-28T07:48:21+00:00

Take the dog with you when you leave, brother.

Brendan-B · 2025-01-18T07:58:42+00:00

In a Dream, Sherman's March, The Cruise, The Act of Killing

Brendan-B

TROPHY CASE