Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

Squaring Eight

Roger Owen Green has turned sixty-four, which means that the one age to have a Beatles song devoted to it is now his! Huzzah! Here’s a barbershop-quartet type of cover of that very song. Go wish Roger a happy birthday. … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Here’s a strange work by Ludwig van Beethoven, written to commemorate a victory in battle by the Duke of Wellington. The piece is viewed as one of Beethoven’s lesser works, and probably rightly so. Even Beethoven himself admitted as much, … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

A visual one this week! Here is the cheesiest pick-up line ever:

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Something for Thursday (Friday edition)

When in doubt, go with Lerner and Loewe.

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Happy Birthday, My Love!!!

It’s The Wife’s birthday! Time for my annual repost of things, memories, factoids, and other ephemera relating to the many, many ways she makes my life better. 1. Her hand fits perfectly into mine, as though our hands were fit … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I heard this interestingly hypnotic work on the drive to work this morning. Composer Ludovico Einaudi is someone I’d never heard of before. He has apparently done a lot of different work in a lot of different genres. Primarily a … Continue reading

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I’m sorry, could you talk into my right ear instead?

So, I’m nursing an ear infection this week. That’s fun. As ear infections go, it’s not one of the worse ones I’ve had in my life. There wasn’t much of a preceding ear ache at all, but the inflammation and … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

I admit, this isn’t funny. At all. I’m only using it because the parenthetical note is funnier than the joke, and because this is a vintage bad joke that was apparently printed in 1921. (via)

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Something for Thursday

Two minutes of soul perfection. Here’s Sam Cooke with “Touch the Hem of His Garment”.

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VHS Memories

So the era of the VHS videotape player has finally come to an end. Last year, the last company that was still making the things rolled the last one ever off its lines, and that’s it. I don’t have any … Continue reading

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