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The Once, and Only Once, a Year Post
All these years later and my curmudgeonly pen has not been stilled. The Worst Christmas Songs According to Me has become a time-honored tradition. What keeps me going, you ask? (or more likely you didn’t ask, but I’ll tell you anyway). Well, I’ve become something of a traveler during the holiday season. A friend once congratulated me on my trek ( Read more... ) -
The Annual Lovefest
There’s a funk in the air this season, and it has little to do with bad music or crass commercialism or any of the other things many typically complain about this time of year; albeit, those things are still alive and well. Social media has become a more fractured place than ever, and there seems to be less room for frivolity than there was a few ( Read more... ) -
The 25th of Never
Regardless of what you believe, celebrate, or wish this time of year, if you’ve known me personally or online for any length of time, this LiveJournal update has probably shown up on your desktop monitor or handheld device, roughly the same day each December, whether you have asked for it or not.
Well, unlike so many red coffee cups, this list will ( Read more... ) -
Putting the "Win" Back in Winter!
While holiday-related songs vary in terms of genre; their religiosity or secular bent; their length; seriousness, and so on, what they typically have in common is overplay from an unspecified date a few weeks before Advent until the end of Christmas Day, at which they are yanked until the following November. A few of these tracks are too obscure ( Read more... ) -
First Update of the Year
I have some down time at work, so I decided to check in. I think I posted updates 2 or 3 times total last year. I blamed Facebook for a long time, but I haven't really been posting to FB much lately either. Really, it's just habit; I've gotten out of the habit of writing. Although, my reading is back up, a book or two a week on average. I ( Read more... ) -
A Very Merry Un-Birthday to Jesus
This year’s list is being rolled out on Friday the 13th, a fitting holiday to commemorate ten Christmas songs that have left a trail of colossally bad luck to those within earshot. Just consider yourselves fortunate that I didn’t see fit to include thirteen songs on this year’s list as a gesture of synchronicity or something. I generally manage to ( Read more... ) -
Notes from an Arm Chair Rock 'n' Roll Star
These days, my knowledge of certain kinds of music borders on encyclopedic. Such was not the case three decades ago. I became an adolescent in the early 80’s, and consumer culture, while maybe not yet at its apex, was spiraling upward. Perhaps in no other market was this more apparent than pop music and all the fashion accessories that were sold to ( Read more... ) -
Fire Up the John Deere!
This morning, as on so many other mornings, I awoke around 6:10, put on my shoes, slipped out the back door, opened the sliding gate behind the house--being careful not to tread on white and black splotches on the ground--and unhooked the cable that releases the door that becomes a sloping surface connected to the ground for our six chickens. ( Read more... )
