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Monthly Archives: May 2025
About the Bed
Sunday Stealing is all about your bed! By the way, did you know that there’s a low-budget horror movie from 1977 that’s become a cult classic, and its title is Death Bed: The Bed That Eats? It’s about a bed that … Continue reading
Twenty-eight
One memory from my youth that I’ve been kicking around is the day after my first date with this one girl in college. We had kinda-sorta met the previous weekend, and then I asked her out on an official date. … Continue reading
Something for Thursday (Friday edition)
Yesterday was just…busy, folks. That’s all. Anyway, one stalwart conversation starter that comes around social media with amazing regularity is naming one’s favorite cover song, or naming a cover song that’s better than the original. This one most definitely fills … Continue reading
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Tuesday Tones
Wind ensemble music today, by prolific composer David R. Holsinger. My band director in college formed quite a fascination with Holsinger’s work and programmed something by him each of the years I was there. I don’t think this was one … Continue reading
The bathroom quiz!
Well, why not! Roger did it, after all. 1. Do you shampoo once or lather, rinse and repeat? Once. The “Repeat” business was inserted to get people to use more shampoo, and thus need to buy new shampoo more frequently. … Continue reading
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Tabs! Get ’em while they’re open!
Time to clear out some tabbage: :: Two morons were convicted in Great Britain of cutting down the Sycamore Gap tree. Good. :: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, 80 years old and battling cancer, has called it a career. Tilson Thomas … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I wanted to like this more than I did, but it’s worth watching, even if it’s way too frantic: it’s a short film comprised of drone footage of many of Buffalo’s architectural gems. I’ve been nearly everywhere in this film, and it … Continue reading
From the Royal Ontario Museum
In the “Toy Soldiers” display:
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Tuesday Tones
I wrote yesterday about how we attended the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance to film of the score to Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I noted how impressed I was with the orchestra’s technical precision during the action cues, particularly the … Continue reading
Two anniversaries
One somber, one celebratory. The first one happened three years ago today. The Wife and I were vacationing in the Finger Lakes region that weekend, and we got back to our cottage after a day visiting the Glass Museum in … Continue reading →