everyone who knows me here probably knows that there have been a lot of songs written about me over the years by various troubadours such as carly simon. the miracle of indie radio bythos who is playing songs only tangentially related to the holiday (when related at all) just reminded of me of one that i had so completely forgotten that it's almost ( Read more... )

seriously with this wikipedia following me thing! first this week it was the shakespeare authorship question. then, this morning i quite randomly selected my dharma looking glass station lost tee shirt with the white (or in this case blue) rabbit, pretty much entirely because it was blue (as mondays almost always are), and looked a bit later to see ( Read more... )

so now then.

we are re-watching cheers gradually. a show that she watched somewhat as it aired (myself i only saw the final episode -- and as a momentous occasion really rather than a televised story, having none of the context of what had gone before), and which we both had watched after it aired (but before we met). so for the first time ( Read more... )

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i just looked out my office window and saw, several blocks away, four gentlemen crossing the broad street in nearly single file, with no cars or other pedestrians in view. a total abbey road moment.

i occasionally check my online fortune cookie. not as often as i have in the past, but few things i did i do regularly now ( Read more... )

as a sideline to my previous entry, i discovered that we have not yet seen any movies released in 2014, although a handful we would like to see have come out.
hence, probably, my feeling we never get out looming especially large.
(technically, the r-rated extended cut of anchorman 2 i dragged c. to wasn't released until 2014, but since it's just a ( Read more... )

this bizarrely mixed bag year, the reddest blue year (maybe it was violet all along?) i've ever known (i haven't been keeping chromatic records for very long), is coming to an end?

with all i've left unsaid, unsaid?

regrets.

this next year i felt might be indigo, but we'll see.

hopes.

i didn't bring in the mail earlier. c. seldom brings in the mail. so i just brought it in a few minutes ago. well after we'd clinched an alcs spot ( Read more... )

you can't count on much. but you can count on the red wings to be in the nhl playoffs every season. every season that there is a season anyhow. since 1991 anyhow. it certainly didn't feel certain this april though. since the red wings waited until the very last day of the regular season to secure their spot (they couldn't afford to lose saturday's ( Read more... )