John Holdun

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  • On Authenticity Among Up-and-coming Hip Hop Artists

    You have something to say! Stop flashing your chain!

    January 31 2011

  • Tolerate your friends more easily than ever before

    What on earth are Google Sparks?

    June 29 2011

  • Fun for the whole family

    To all who come to this happy place: Welcome.

    June 19 2011

  • Music Journalism: The-Dream, Love/Affair

    So what is going to happen on 6/7/2011?

    May 7 2011

  • Stay Ups

    Well that makes two articles named after songs by The Most Serene Republic.

    March 26 2011

  • Quora Emails

    Quora email settings? ALSO RIDICULOUS.

    February 2 2011

  • LinkedIn Emails

    In which LinkedIn (and Facebook) have ridiculous email settings.

    January 31 2011

  • Moved

    Live, damn it, live!

    June 17 2010

  • Alright—Yeah… Uh Huh

    Uh, huh?

    April 17 2010

  • Sugar Headaches

    It’s past dawn and I’m out of jelly beans.

    April 14 2010

  • I Will Die

    Nice place.

    March 30 2010

  • Things Keep Happening

    A peek at my imagined psychoses, plus a bit of serendipity on a rainy day.

    February 12 2010

  • Slowed Acceleration

    I went on a stream hiatus, and then it turned into something a little more than just a “hiatus.”

    January 7 2010

  • More of Everything

    2010 is going to be the year of self-education.

    January 2 2010

  • Black-and-Whites

    I had a little run-in with the law. The crime? Walking around when other people weren’t walking around.

    December 17 2009

  • Groovy

    I feel fantastic.

    December 4 2009

  • Bittersweet and Strange

    In which I gush about Tim Brayton.

    November 27 2009

  • Shocking Newness

    Changes to the ol’ blog devolve into a romantic ramble.

    November 26 2009

  • Accountability

    Suddenly there’s another programmer working on my code. It’s weird, but I like it a lot.

    November 18 2009

  • Admittance

    I spent my last few hours in New York on a hospital bed with a needle in my arm. Also, airport musings.

    November 10 2009

  • Two steps back

    Finding an apartment won’t be as easy as I had hoped.

    November 7 2009

  • This isn’t how Sundays are supposed to feel

    That is, miserably.

    November 1 2009

  • Sunday is for catching my breath

    I’m in New York. Here is some of what’s happened so far, while I have a minute.

    November 1 2009

  • So soon.

    I’m flying to New York on Friday for a week—my first time traveling back home this year. I’ve hardly stopped talking about how long I’ve been away. I’m tired of it.

    October 28 2009

  • On Pitchfork’s Top 200 Albums of the 2000s

    I’m all about albums. I haven’t shuffled in ages.

    October 4 2009

  • How I Browse

    There are no buttons in my browser. It is just like heaven.

    September 19 2009

  • Kirby’s Dream Land

    I forgot all about this game!

    August 14 2009

  • Look at that. You blew out my light.

    I review John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt. Sort of.

    July 12 2009

  • Phages

    The story of my almost love affair with Emma from The Most Serene Republic. At least, the way I remember it.

    June 17 2009

  • Notes, 2007 - 2009

    Things I wrote in college, previously available only on Facebook.

    January 15 2007