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Thanks to gesundyke for the link.

So there's a small meme going around about the first record/CD/music compilation you ever owned. Which got me to remembering the first - and for a long time, the only - record that I owned: "Sing With Grover." (At least, I think that was the title, or something similar - I can definitely say that the record had Grover on the cover and that Grover ( Read more... )

Three reasons to see this particular video: one, it managed to cheer me up after a seriously annoying day; two, the first minute and a half will do wonders for your vocabulary if you happen to be studying for the GRE test; three, if you have no interest in studying for the GRE test, you can easily skip ahead to 1:30 which is when things get good.

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So, for my birthday, tgregoryt got me something absolutely awesome: a good sized patio garden stand, where, at least in theory, you can grow hanging tomato vines bursting with tomato flavor, and then in the top section grow flowers, if you are the nice picture, herbs, if you're me, and exotic vegetables if you're him. ("Uh. Do we even like those?" I asked ( Read more... )

So I was grousing (panicking) to many of you that my writing progress for much of January had been zilch, none, zip. I knew a couple of the causes - the cold that decided to stop by for a visit, and had difficulty realizing that it really wasn't welcome, and the ongoing bouts of massive fatigue and resulting headaches that left me merrily chasing ( Read more... )

The type of warning we all need.

Special and unusual congratulations to the media, who for once has included Helpful and Useful Video to help us all in this sort of situation.

Much thanks to simplykathryn for the link ( Read more... )

1. It is possible -- possible, I say - that I have just a few too many covers of "Hallelujah," because, heretical as it is to say so, sometimes Jeff Buckley's version just isn't enough.

On the other hand, having more covers of this than any other song, by far, may indicate a serious problem. Maybe.

2. So I finally got around to reading The Silver ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I gained an odd fascination with the decidedly, um, odd campaign of Mike Gravel back when he started to throw random rocks at people and to set things on fire, since if I can admire any quality in a presidential candidate, it's open honesty about his or her ability and willingness to damage us all, hopefully with live weapons ( Read more... )

My musical tastes tend towards the classical, and I have different music for different needs, different places: Mozart, Faure and Pergolosi at work; Anuna, various Jeff Beal soundtracks, Bharamji and Maneesh while struggling with words while writing, and so on. (That's a very partial list.) But here's a very partial list of the songs that make me ( Read more... )

Meant to note yesterday, but forgot ( Read more... )