Sippican Cottage

Search
Close this search box.

What's Going On:

A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything

Recent Posts

Kids These Days

Lots of ink spilled about kids these days. They’re either imbeciles who will never pay off their student loans, or they’re geniuses making mid six-figures at a FAANG outfit. Never anything in between. But there’s a great deal of world between sullenly serving coffee and coding AI apps.

Read More »

News You Can Use: How To Run a Roman Army

I read a lot of history when I was a kid. I can’t remember most of it at this point. I’m pretty sure that William the Conqueror invaded Australia in 1923, but was driven back by the kangaroos, but I might be misremembering the details. And I couldn’t

Read More »

David Sanborn R.I.P.

Well, David Sanborn won’t be down for breakfast. He died of cancer a couple of days ago. He was an interesting, and very influential musician. Even if you don’t know his name, you’d recognize his saxophone playing on any number of pop, R&B, and jazz recordings. Like this

Read More »

Tuesday Trash Day

Well, you know what they say: One man’s trash is another man’s poison. No, wait, that’s not it. A bird in the hand isn’t worth much, and it’s messier than one in the bush. Hmm. I don’t think that’s it either. Waste not, why not? That also seems

Read More »

Great Moments in Maine Real Estate: Ocho

Well, we’re back again with a roundup of interesting things from Maine real estate listings. I’m using the word “interesting” in the same way your psychiatrist does when you tell them some weird thing you dreamed. “That’s interesting, ” they’ll say, and up your prescription for Lithium. Maine

Read More »

I’m Decidedly Not In With the In Crowd

Aw yeah. That’s 1964. Dobie Gray on Shindig, one of the many musical variety shows on TV back then. It was only broadcast for a couple of years, but managed to showcase lots of good artists. The first show had Sam Cooke, The Everly Brothers, and The Righteous

Read More »

Greatest Hits

Bits of my life pulled out and flung on the Internet floor

Bass Lessons

[Editor’s Note: Written in December of 2008 and never used. Not sure why] Author’s Note: Don’t ask me; I just write the stuff. There is

Read More »

Sagas and Compilations

A Kingdom Where the Sky Is Burning