A year, a decade and a posting hiatus all come to an end…

Happy Holidays folks. It’s been a long month of real world obligations producing bloging inactivity here at  In Pursuit of the Trivial. With every culture documentarians’ favorite time of the year (and in this instance, decade) coming up however, all that extra think-time can’t be left to waste.
Introducing year two of the In Pursuit of [...]

July CNY Music Podcast: The Best Albums (From The First Half!) Of ‘09 and John Legend in Albany

Geography | Entertainment Podcast
Recorded and produced by Nathan Mattise
The great debate for 2009’s midway album of the year is complete. Take a listen and then read on for the rest of the CNY music news for July.

WFOMYLs # 2: The Trivial Links (From The First Half!) Of 2009

All Categories Trivial Links
Written by Nathan Mattise
The end of 2008 brought a list of web sites and people with it. Initially the thought was to do a trends list for mid-2009 in order to combine those two ideas, but what better way to actually see what was actually buzzworthy than to compile the best Trivial [...]

WFOMYLs #1: Top Sports Stories (From The First Half!) Of 2009

Sports & Leisure Column
Written by Nathan Mattise
Maybe it’s my increased exposure to it since I’m copy-editing over at BleacherReport (info on that still to come), but 2009 appeared to have an unusually high amount of buzzworthy sports moments during its first half.  Not all of these will be considered among the most memorable when the [...]

Posting took a hiatus this week because…

…in the spirit of recent theme-weeks, In Pursuit of the Trivial will host one of its own starting Monday.
Introducing the Week Full Of Mid Year Lists (WFOMYLs for short).
After the success of the WFOEOTYLs at the end of 2008, it seemed only fitting to tackle a new project. Six months of 2009 are now officially [...]