Here is Paul Simon singing American Tune. Did you need that? I don't know. I needed that.

Me: I was telling a story and mentioned her friend Harold and then turned to my mom and said, "Not actually a giraffe," and she broke up laughing. Grandma sort of patiently sat there and waited for us to start making sense again.
timprov: I hope someone's bringing her food.

Still sick and run-down, so have some of my favorite New Year's music:

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For some reason I can't find a very important fourth song, Meg Hutchinson's "Being Happy," on YouTube.

So one of the things that's been going on here recently is that I was trying to figure out how to be able to make my good singing and my audible singing more...um...the same. Because I was not having a lot of success with timprov being able to hear me over the guitar, for one thing. I have talked before about how I do participatory music but not ( Read more... )

1. If I put kiwi fruit in my skyr, is there some kind of ancestral retribution that will fall upon my head? I ask because I keep turning it over and it keeps being a good thing in my head (with almonds, but putting almonds in things is a well-established Ancestral Thing ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up with my grandpa's voice singing a medley of Credence Clearwater Revival songs in my head. He sang "Looking Out My Back Door" and "Up Around the Bend" and, just as I was waking up, "Bad Moon Rising ( Read more... )

The Smothers Brothers didn't do this bit yesterday, and timprov had never seen it, so I had to dig it up on YouTube. Here you go:

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It's the one with cravasses and the Folk Singer's Manual ( Read more... )

Well, this time it worked: I made all of dinner myself, except for the bits where markgritter got the hot things out of the oven and carried them to the table. If I'd been vertigo-free, I would barely have counted this as cooking: chicken breasts in the oven with bottled barbecue sauce on them, a pot of jasmine rice on the stove, and steamed broccoli in the ( Read more... )

There is a poll over at minnehaha about the upcoming US election. Please go answer it. I was thinking of doing a similar poll myself before I saw minnehaha's, so I'm curious about the results.

I went and checked YouTube to see if there's a decent vid of "I Am Changing My Name to Chrysler." There isn't, just this, which I think is pretty mediocre in terms of ( Read more... )

Ever since I saw the relevant movie, I've been going around mentally questioning people's commitment to Sparkle Motion. All sorts of people. The mailbeing. The arborist's secretary. My great-aunt. You; you are not exempt. Sometimes my physical therapist says, "Do you think we could try this with your eyes closed? Because that's more of a ( Read more... )