Jim Alfredson

I just voted no on Prop 1. Why? Because it's a regressive tax increase that hurts the poor and lower middle class. Let's not forget that one of the first things Gov Synder did when he got into office in 2011 was cut almost $2 billion from Michigan's revenues by abolishing the MBT and then shifted that deficit burden onto the poor and middle class. He did so by cutting the Earned Income Tax Credit, the homestead tax credit, taxing retirement pensions, cutting education, and slashing welfare. I...

Pascal's Wager: wrong in the 17th century and still wrong today.

"One journalist said he thought I would like this “DIY” world. There’s a difference between having the final artistic say on who I hire and the new normal of not hiring anyone at all."

"Psychics" preying on the desperate. Grotesque.

Organissimo at the One Trick Pony tonight. 8pm. Not to be confused with the One Trick Ponty (as in Jean Luc).

Oh, Jehovah's Witnesses. Why don't I believe you when you come to my door (after visiting us last year) and claim you respect my beliefs and then try to convert me to joining your religion with a silly pamphlet that uses every poor tactic in the evangelical handbook: Fear of the unknown and death, misinformation and scientific cherry-picking, quoting the Bible as if it's an unassailable and reliable source, and the argument from complexity (ie intelligent design)? I wanted to ask them if the...

Flying to DC today to perform with Janiva Magness at the Child Welfare League 2015 National Conference tomorrow.

"THEO released with The Game Of Ouroboros one of the musical highlights of 2015..." New English review from The Netherlands.

"How can we be born as sinners? Aren’t babies innocent at birth like most believe? Let’s not depend upon human wisdom or modern psychology for the answer." Heaven's no... let's not depend on collected human wisdom or consult modern scientific knowledge. Let's see what a 2000 year old arbitrary collection of tribal myths has to say about it! Hmmmm... it says here that we are all sinners because of something two people did thousands of years ago in a garden with a talking snake....

organissimo is at Cliff Bell's tonight! 9pm start. We have t-shirts and free stickers! I said STICKERS! Hope to see you there.

My new favorite talking point of the conservative Christian movement is "secular theocracy". That phrase makes no sense. Kind of like "conservative Christian".

Bachman Rapture Overdrive!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/20/michele-bachmann-obama-rapture_n_7104136.html

"Increasingly, it looks like life in the future will be nasty, brutish and long."

I actually just said "I've had a lot of pets in my day," to Zora. In my day?!? What am I, 75 years old?

Anybody going to see Charlie Hunter at Bell's in K-zoo tonight? I wanna go.

The piano I tuned tonight wins the award for Worst Out Of Tune Piano 2015 so far. Three half-steps flat (average). The last tuning date I could find was 1956 but the client thinks her mother had it tuned sometime in the 70s. Yikes!

The whole anti-vaccine movement is the pinnacle of first world privilege run amok. Looks like this woman is getting a healthy dose of reality. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/anti-vaxx-mom-abandons-movement-after-all-seven-her-of-her-kids-get-whooping-cough/

Creativity lurks in limitations.

"The Game Of Ourobouros is an excellent release, and while the “main man” for the project Theo is a keyboardist, there is no keyboard overload. Throughout the album, the interaction of the keyboards by Jim and the guitar of Jake is something to marvel at. This is an album to give a few listens before it finally “hits” you, but at that point you will sense the urge to purchase a copy. Go get it." http://www.progrockmusictalk.com/2015/04/theogameofourobourosreview.html

Birthplace: Closed-door conservative think tank strategy session in 2010 http://www.theonion.com/articles/who-is-marco-rubio,38421

Psssttt... Dave is super close to his goal with only a few hours left. This is a great project. Won't you support it? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/587031354/shhh-new-album-by-dave-menzo