I couple of months ago I was cleaning my office closet and found a box of saved letters. I went through them, reading quite a few in full. It was a fun distracting thing to do. Letters are a rare thing these days for most of us, even my grandmother …
They’d Like To Teach The World To Sing In Perfect Harmony
I’d like to build the world a home And furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow-white turtle doves While you were lamenting your shrinking investment portfolio, discussing whether Adam (American Idol) looks better with or without eye liner and fingernail polish, and worrying about Obama’s …
Student Athlete an Oxymoron?
I’m sitting here flipping through the manic news, the frantic and varied of opinions on various economic plans and their possible outcomes. I find it all too much of a maze at this point. I’m tempted to watch Ellen to see who is singing in the bathroom this week. I’m …
Sunday Night Notes
I’m tired. I have to catch some Big Love, the HBO series not the real thing, at 2AM, and I don’t feel like blogging tonight. Not to miss Sunday night notes, I leave you with this, taken from John’s site. Not because you haven’t seen it, most people have, but …
Don’t Worry Baby Everything’s Gonna Be Alright on Old School Friday
Old School Friday. The theme this week is songs with “Baby” in the title. What’s not to love about a song which can be a kiss off goodbye to anything or anyone, be it a way of life or way of thought. A song that inspired the 1966 Joyce Carol …
Blogging, Is It Worth It?
For those of us addicted to the genre here in the USA the answer is yes, but it is an easy call for us. We can call our president all manner of slurs, make fun of diplomats, politicians and their wives, hell even their kids. We can freely criticize religious …
