Do Crime!

Author: BigJim

  • A Song to Pass the Time

    You ever hear a song, and it just takes you back to a specific time or feeling in your life? This just happened to me this morning on my drive to work. Yesterday, someone gave my wife an old-school punk rock (well, Ska, really) zine. It was about the Bouncing Souls, and Less Than Jake. Less Than Jake is quietly one of my favorite bands, so this morning I queued up Spotify, and damn, if their early albums didn’t take me back to summer break during high school.

    Just endless days of hanging out with my best friends, driving around listening to tunes, hanging out at Starbucks, hanging out in parking lots, basically just being young and care free.

    It’s funny too, where I grew up in North Eastern Pennsylvania, it’s rated as one of the cloudiest parts of the US, but all of my memories seem to be in full sunshine. It seems you
    really do remember things through rose-colored glasses.

    That’s pretty much all I’ve got for today. Listen to LTJ. I suggest the album Borders & Boundaries.

  • Let’s take the internet back

    I’ve been spending a lot of my free time lately on Reddit. Probably too much time if I’m being honest. It’s my go-to time killer when I’ve got downtime at work, or home.

    Like a lot of people (I think), I’m getting tired of the endless doom scrolling that Facebook and Instagram offer, with their curated algorithms, which I’m convinced are designed to piss me off. It makes me miss the old web 1.0 and web 2.0 days, where it felt like I had an endless amount of websites to visit, even if they were someone’s personal blog, with whom I had no connection. Just a place to exist, and read, and learn about things from first hand accounts. Whether it was someone’s passion project on a geocities/angelfire site, or was just their day-to-day blog, it was light and encouraging.

    While I do get a lot of information from Reddit, it’s often interspersed with karma farming, people looking to make a quick joke, or trolls.

    So with that said, I’ve decided to start a blog. I’m just going to talk about the goings on in my life, my hobbies, my dog, things I find interesting, and hopefully inspire someone else to do the same, and slowly, we might just be able to take back the internet.