Tag Archives: Something For Thursday

A change of pace this week. Here’s one of my favorite scenes from The West Wing. The set-up is that a death row prisoner is about to be executed, and somehow (I don’t recall the particulars) it comes to pass … Continue reading →

We’re on the eve of the Winter Olympics, one of my favorite things in the world (the Salt Lake City Games were in progress when I launched this blog, way back when), so here’s a bit of Olympic history: Brian … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the 51st anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, so this seems apropos. Here’s Don McLean. Here are the annotated lyrics.

The classic movie The Philadelphia Story — the tale of a man still in love with his divorced wife, with said wife still being in love with him although she doesn’t realize it even as she prepares to remarry — … Continue reading →

Who doesn’t like a good rock ballad? People who are dumb, that’s who. But people who are smart and cool like a good rock ballad. That’s how it works. Here’s ZZTop, with “Rough Boy”. “Ain’t got no rap, ain’t got … Continue reading →

Jim Croce’s birthday was the other day — or, it would have been, had he not died in a plane crash just six days before my second birthday. I discovered Croce about fifteen years ago, and I’ve loved him ever … Continue reading →

And another prodigal regular feature round these parts returns. I may have used this before, but it’s utterly gorgeous and I can reuse stuff whenever I want. Here is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performing “Shenandoah”. This recording was fascinatingly used … Continue reading →

Dougie Maclean….

Yes, I’ll still be doing my Thursday offerings, even as I do the Daily Dose of Christmas. Here is Herbert von Karajan conducting the last movement of Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 in D. This is one of the most spirited … Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to come up with a rationale for this being apropos of Thanksgiving, but…well, I can see it, and if you can’t, then thbbbbpppt! Here is “The Egg Travels”, from the Disney film Dinosaur. Music by James Newton … Continue reading →