I live in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, in a craftsman-style bungalow that needs constant renovation.
I have spent large chunks of my life in southern California (chunk #1) and the Boston metropolitan area, primarily Cambridge (chunk #2). Alabama is chunk #3.
Before my current, nearly 20-year run in the music industry, I held jobs doing psychiatric research at Massachusetts General Hospital, supervising the student crew at Harvard’s awe-inspiring Widener Library, tutoring Crimson undergrads in music history, cooking, bartending, gathering epidemiological data on retinal melanoma at the Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, and pursuing graduate study in Medical Psychology. I am convinced that there is a common thread among these things, but I haven’t yet discovered it.
Revelatory thought most often comes to me while in the shower or while swimming, and my astrological sign is Pisces (water, water, water). Otherwise, I am usually thinking of a 
solid half-dozen things at once, and this weblog may eventually represent many of them.
I am not conversant in Simpson ephemera, though when I have seen the show, I have laughed out loud. The Simpsonize Me! site was cool (obviously…above), and I even tried it with a picture of my cat.
I post something every single day, whether it is a fully-formed articulate idea or something that someone else wrote that I happen to find of interest. Maintaining a weblog can be an exercise executed in a vacuum and, since no man is a dust mite, I thrive on the few comments that any of you might have the generosity of keyboard to throw my way. I will always respond when there is an open door.
I have a mailbox at spitballarmy (at) aol (dot) com.
Here are some things I’ve been diggin’, of late (updated periodically):
6 responses so far ↓
1 Jill Wheeler // Jan 3, 2009 at 7:57 PM
Hi Fred –
I just now stumbled onto your website. Very cool. What an interesting resume you have – Harvard? Wow.
Wish you still owned a record store. Let’s do coffee or something sometime!
Best,
Jill
2 jutta // Jan 17, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Good morning, Fred-
Thank you so much for the Carver Theatre info – so bad I will be out of town first week in February – would have loved to go to that one – please do keep my on the info list of things musical that are going on in B’ham.
I hope you are well and the pipes in your house did not freeze – i’m still loving my little house – Punktchen and I are well – come see us some time.
jutta
3 Jeff Chung // Mar 23, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Your lists of books, film, music seem as esoteric as your tastes were back in Uni days. And the Simpson likeness does you justice.
My only question: how can you stand the ‘Bama humidity compared to SoCal?
4 spitballarmy // Mar 28, 2010 at 5:14 PM
See, and I would have thought my tastes in high school to be fairly mainstream. Shows what I know!
Nowhere on earth has better weather than our Southern California hometowns, in my opinion, Jeff. I hate the Alabama humidity. It’s like a meteorological hair shirt, though I’m not sure what I’ve done to deserve the punishment. I would love to move back to SoCal. One of these days…
5 Head Rabbit // Jul 25, 2010 at 12:32 PM
I owe you a letter, Fred. So much to tell you…check your email in the next week or so…or call me when you get a moment…you’re gonna flip…
6 spitballarmy // Jul 26, 2010 at 12:03 PM
H.R. – Would love to hear what’s been happening. Hopefully, I’ll beat you to the punch!
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