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Author Archives: ksedinger
Something for Thursday
I’m going to put Something for Thursday on hiatus as well until after Christmas, again for the same reasons: my available time for blogging and listening to music is going to take a bit of a hit in a week … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
Over the years I’ve posted a lot of Christmas music by chamber ensembles, but I tend to gravitate toward brass quintets and string quartets. So, today, let’s give the Woodwind Quartet and Quintets some love!
A View to a Ranking: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 3
With this entry, we move from my bottom half of the Bond rankings into the top half. It’s worth remembering that this is all relative: there’s only one movie, Live and Let Die, that I find basically unwatchable. Every one of … Continue reading
Posted in Fandom, On Movies
Tagged Geek Stuff, James Bond, Movies
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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
It’s December 1! If you’re new to my blogging game, this is something I’ve been doing every December for…a while, anyway. I did it every year at Byzantium’s Shores, and I’m doing it here. Every day from December 1 to Christmas … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
Here is the last Tone Poem Tuesday until after Christmas! I’m putting this feature on a brief hiatus for reasons that will become clear in a few weeks. Nothing bad, but time for posting will be a crunch for quite … Continue reading
From the Books: “This Will All Be Over Soon” by Cecily Strong
Cecily Strong is one of my favorite performers on what is a very strong present cast on Saturday Night Live. In fact, this particular season she is getting featured a lot more than usual, possibly because Kate McKinnon has been on … Continue reading
Speaking of made-up “holidays”….
…today is, according to someone, Pie In The Face Day! If you Google it, several dates come up (July 1 is one), but the most common is November 27. I’ve no idea why November 27 is the date for this, unless the … Continue reading
Posted in On Pies In Faces, On Things I Find Funny, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Pie in the Face
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“She’ll probably add something unnecessary, like raisins”
A culinary note from this year’s Thanksgiving: My favorite Thanksgiving dish has always been the stuffing. Always, always, always. My ranking goes stuffing, corn, rolls/biscuits, turkey. (I am not a mashed potatoes fan, but that’s not the point here.) My … Continue reading
Our annual Festival?
Thanksgiving is over, and now comes Christmas! Every year I hear a lot of complaint that Thanksgiving is a thing that gets lost in the shuffle between Halloween and Christmas, and that Thanksgiving should be its very own thing with … Continue reading
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Live and Let Rank: The Official and Correct Ranking of the James Bond Movies, part 2
Continuing my Official And Correct Ranking of the James Bond films! This time we will go from Number 20 to Number 16. Our first entry contained the one Bond film I outright dislike, followed by several that just don’t do … Continue reading →