This time of year is one of my favorite times of the year, the weather is nice – not too cold and it’s just before it gets too hot outside. One of the benefits of living in Texas is that the weather warms up earlier in the spring, so you get a longer period here of nice cool weather before the horrible heat of the summer. Few things are better than getting in your car, rolling the windows down, and [Continue Reading...]
Blog Posts
April was a hell of a month for the Rastiello’s. First off, we started the month fully vaccinated. We celebrated with family in Houston and it felt so good to see our Texas niece and nephews. [Continue Reading...]
While prepping for this month’s newsletter I had the horrifying realization that the formative albums of my adolescence will start hitting 30 years old in rapid succession over the next few years. Some of the first [Continue Reading...]
What a long year February was. Woof. It started out normally, as normal as can be that is, and then Texas was hit with a freak storm that led to a week of power and water [Continue Reading...]
Every January brings new changes – or at least the promise of them. New Year’s resolutions, promises all in the name of trying to better yourself. But, resolutions don’t need to be about correcting behavior – stop [Continue Reading...]
December’s playlist and newsletter bring two monumental things to a close: This hugely shittastic year. The conclusion of the first year of Downbeat.fm. I don’t want to dwell on the first point, because we all know what [Continue Reading...]
In 2014 I started doing a yearly “Best Of” post on my blog about media that I liked and considered to be the best of the year – really my favorite things of what I’m into, [Continue Reading...]
A lot has happened since we’ve spoken last – notably, Joe Biden was elected to be our next President which provided a huge sign of relief for many Americans – and surely even more around the [Continue Reading...]
I don’t have much to say in this intro other than I hope everyone is safe and has already voted or intends to do so on Election Day. This gets said every year, but every year [Continue Reading...]
We’re now six months into this pandemic and quarantine in the US, and we still aren’t heading in the right direction. I feel like this newsletter intro is the same every month, but it’s just…everywhere and [Continue Reading...]
This has been a busy month for me and this newsletter. You may have noticed that the July newsletter looked a little different than the previous versions. That’s because I moved it from TinyLetter to Mailchimp [Continue Reading...]