Last night I was listening to another CD in the Spike Jones box set I bought this past Saturday. There was a tune I heard on the Dr. Demento show, but had forgotten the title. This tune, Black Bottom has no vocal but it does have a joke of sorts in it. The joke depends on knowing one way that a record can fail or be damaged. There is a point where ( Read more... )

Some time back, jmaynard and I returned home from supper or some such and saw a rabbit on the lawn. This was unusual for Jay, but not for me. I had been used to seeing rabbits when I lived in the country in Wisconsin, and Fairmont is a small enough town that seeing rabbits is not unusual. A bit less common than squirrels, but hardly rare. Seeing deer in ( Read more... )