Album That Has Nothing On Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ Wins Grammy Award http://t.co/Xbc9tFJQYU #GRAMMYs
- The Onion (@TheOnion) January 27, 2014

I was surprised when my coworker Eileen mentioned the above Onion article to me this morning. because for the last week or so I've been planning to use last night's Grammy telecast as an excuse to talk about ( Read more... )

At the sandwich shop the other day, we were listening, as we often do, to Pandora's classic rock station. They play about what you'd expect to hear on a classic rock station, which is to say mostly guitar-based rock from the 60s and 70s with occasional forays into the 80s. Most of the latter are by artists who got their start in the 60s or 70s but ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, like last Sunday, is another of those mysterious holidays for which the Madison Public Library will close. December 29 is legitimately part of the holiday season, at least; it's the 5th day of Christmas, and since it falls on a Sunday this year, it's also the Feast of the Holy Family.

Thinking about the twelve days of Christmas reminds ( Read more... )

Stats compiled over a 2½ hour period on Saturday, December 21, using a newly created Pandora account so as not to influence the choices with previously liked songs ( Read more... )

The Christmas CD that plays at the calendar is pretty good. I say that as someone with a very high tolerance for Christmas music, mind you, so you might disagree, but by and large I've found the songs on it to be unobjectionable, even when heard six to eight times a day, with two exceptions. One of the songs skips, which is irritating, but the song ( Read more... )

My friend Jay is a high school Spanish teacher, and as he was giving me a ride home tonight, he told me that all the language classes at his school were celebrating the last school day of 2013 with an international festival. Each class will prepare ethnic foods to share with the other classes. I said that I remembered the language classes at my ( Read more... )

First of all, via Twitter pal and internationally famous artist and animator @jujujulieta:


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One cure for stress, especially at this time of the year: listening to Christmas music! Here's a playlist of holiday favorites I put together this morning before heading to work. You can play the whole thing from the embedded object below, but if you want to see what songs are on it before you listen, you can check it out here. (Or just click the ( Read more... )

Stress is getting to me. It's not bad stress, the sort born of unhappiness or despair, but rather the kind caused by not having as much time to relax as one might wish. Between the two jobs and the additional travel time associated with that and my church responsibilities and the cold weather and the reduced daylight ... it all adds up ( Read more... )

Back in the 1960s and '70s, it was fairly common for department stores and tire manufacturers to issue Christmas record albums every year. I remember my mom owned several of these Christmas compilations, and I remember one in particular that was issued by JC Penney: The Brightest Stars of Christmas. Actually, it's the album per se I remember -- ( Read more... )