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Bad Joke Friday (Good Joke Edition)

I thought I’d take a break from the usual groan-inducing content that regularly characterizes this feature, and post something genuinely funny. He’s a brief bit from George Carlin! This is part of a longer bit he did about some of … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

I had a number of friends in college (still friends, but this is about the time in college) who were big fans of the “new age” music group Mannheim Steamroller. I was never as big a fan of Mannheim as … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Gene Kelly

As much as I love Fred Astaire, I will always be a Gene Kelly guy.

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Tone Poem Tuesday

This is a cool video realization of one of my favorite marches of all time, the “Children’s March” (subtitled “Over the Hills and Far Away”), by Percy Grainger. It’s one of those videos that allows you to follow along with … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday (the Punching Nazis edition)

Just because.

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2017: Year of the American Nazis

I don’t have anything eloquent or insightful to say on the subject, but I feel that I should say this: to hell with the white-supremacist Nazi subculture that is thriving in my country today, and to hell with anyone who … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

Submitted by a reader: Why do fish live in salt water? Because pepper makes them sneeze. Thanks, Mom!

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Something for Thursday (Glen Campbell edition)

There are four songs I remember from when I was just a very small child: “Country Roads” by John Denver, “Song Sung Blue” by Neil Diamond, “Love’s Been Good To Me” by Frank Sinatra, and “Rhinestone Cowboy” by Glen Campbell. … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

OK, this is pretty cool. I’m not the biggest fan in the world of Pachelbel’s Canon in D, but I suppose it’s iconic enough and this video is pretty neat: it’s a scrolling score of the piece. The YouTube channel … Continue reading

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Adventures in Junk Food

For several years now, the fine folks at Lay’s have been coming up with interesting potato chip flavors. Some are OK (“Garlic Cheese Bread”), and some are…not (“Chicken and Waffles”, which I tried, and “Cappuccino”, which I did not). This … Continue reading

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