Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

Tone Poem Tuesday

Like many a lover of classical music, I suspect, my knowledge of composer Paul Dukas can be summed up in one sentence: “He wrote The Sorceror’s Apprentice.” Which he did. The Sorceror’s Apprentice is pretty much the only work by … Continue reading

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GOOD Joke Friday!

A friend posted this on Facebook, and in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here it is! — It was raining hard and a big puddle had formed in front of an Irish pub. An old man stood beside the puddle … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

What’s neat about really great songs is that they can be remade from one genre to another. “The Long Black Veil” started as a country ballad, but here it is recorded by Celtic supergroup The Chieftains and sung by Mick … Continue reading

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How I made Gluten-Free Fried Chicken, lived to tell the tale, and was worshiped as a hero

The Wife and I both share a love of fried chicken, because fried chicken is awesome and people who don’t like it are wrong and unhappy. We don’t indulge fried chicken all that often, because it is admittedly not the … Continue reading

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More snow….

This really hasn’t been a very hard winter, in terms of snow. In fact, there’s only been one or two really “big” snow events, and one of those was really only notorious by virtue of when and how the snow … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

An American in Paris. Is it a tone poem? You bet! Or rather, a “symphonic poem”, which is really much the same thing. Gershwin intended the work to reflect the energy and rhythms he experienced while traveling in 1920s Paris … Continue reading

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Happy Pi Day!!!

UPDATE 3/14/2019 I see this post is getting a lot of traffic all of a sudden, so if you like this sort of goofiness, check out my similar post from last year, which features a newer video in which I … Continue reading

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Instaweeks

I haven’t done this in a long time — just a feature of a number of my recent photographic adventures via Instagram or Flickr. Here’s some stuff that’s been going on of late! (This was a total FAIL of a … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

Eep! I almost forgot about this! Take it away, Mr. Astrophysicist Man: Geologists are important for our understanding of rocks on Earth and on other planets. So never take them for granite. — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 10, 2017

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Something for Thursday

I’ve featured this piece before, but it’s turned up a number of times recently in my life — a couple of times on the radio, and the other night two movements from it featured in The Daughter’s school concert. So … Continue reading

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