That’s not funny

Maybe I’m too literal-minded, but I have a hard time getting many types of humor. To me, it’s all personal. I love puns and word play, but have trouble with a lot of the types of comedy I see. Most people have become aware enough to be offended by racist and sexist jokes, but other [...]

I feel blue … but only in B flat major

In freshman ear training class, I amazed my professor with my ability to name any scale or chord upon hearing it. Yet I couldn’t do it with a single note, as someone with perfect pitch can. That’s because I didn’t identify it with my ears–I did it with my eyes. For a few of us, [...]

Hit ‘em in the wallet

From Warren Ellis can see what you are doing: Jhayne Holmes says this: What with the Washington State Supreme Court handing down its anti-gay-marriage decision several weeks ago and the ever-hearing more about attacks on reproductive rights down south, I’m feeling that the States is tripping a bit too merrily down the Handmaid’s path. This [...]

Addiction

I’ve been smoking since I was 13 years old. That’s 33 years. Originally I did it to look tough–not cool or sexy as the anti-tobacco commericals focus on–and it worked. A lit cigarette was a weapon and that was a good thing in some of the places I hung out. But I quickly found that [...]

The pornography of suffering

The media loves a tragedy. They got one in living and dying color yesterday morning when Comair Flight 5191 crashed on take-off in Lexington, KY. Of 50 passengers and crew, 49 died. CNN lost no time in intruding upon the families’ grief. Note these quotes from their article Honeymooners among crash victims POSTED: 10:48 p.m. [...]

First tomatoes of the season

The first of my romas are ripe. By the end of the week, I’ll be making sauce.

Flashback, the music edition

Last 10 tunes on my Musicmatch Jukebox playlist while I work this afternoon: Second-hand News – Fleetwood Mac Harder To Breathe – Maroon5 Why Don’t You and I – Santana and Chad Kroeger Flirtin’ With Disaster – Molly Hatchet Magic Man – Heart Brother Jacob – Head East No Sugar Tonight – Guess Who I [...]

M-m-m-m-My Sharona

From CNN: LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Bruce Gary, the rock drummer who worked with George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Stephen Stills but is best known as The Knack’s original drummer — the man who played on the group’s No. 1 hit “My Sharona” — has died. He was 55. My Sharona was a #1 [...]

Eudora comes home

Eudora Welty, that is, not the Qualcom email client named in her honor. In 1973 Ms. Welty won a Pulitzer Prize for her novel “The Optomist’s Daughter,” considered one of the best southern novels on the 20th century. The National Endowment for the Arts has discovered 5 hours of color footage of the author reading [...]

Mission accomplished

I did it. At 7:00 tonight I made my deadline and took the site live. Zero to 60 in 15 days. :) Tomorrow I’m going to sleep until I wake up – no alarm clock–then start right in on stage 2 Monday morning. The sprint is over and now I settle in for the marathon. [...]

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