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Something for Thursday

You all need an earworm. I’m here to provide. Or, if former teen idols are more your speed: Hey, if your musical life doesn’t include the occasional bubblegum song once in a while, you’re doing it wrong.

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Something for Wednesday

I know, it’s not Thursday. But hey, whoever said I had to stick to the schedule? I’ve had an odd relationship with country music my entire life. On balance, it generally isn’t my cup of tea, but when a country … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Easter is coming, so in that vein, a concert overture by the great orchestral master Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His Russian Easter Festival Overture is a work that pays tribute to Easter and the Russian Orthodox liturgies. The composer actually uses a … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

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Something for Thursday (Friday edition)

Oops. Time got away from me yesterday. So what to do? Resort to the old favorites, of course. Lerner and Loewe, performed by Maurice Chevalier. Here is “I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore” from Gigi.

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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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