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Story Up My Sleeve #8 / Midweek Music Break: “The Wreck of the Edmund...
I thought I’d take liberties with both of these ongoing series’ themes in order to combine them. This may continue for the next few Wednesdays, as well — creating, in effect, a weekly post on story...
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Story Up My Sleeve #15 / Midweek Music Break: “Cell Block Tango,” by John...
[Continuing to combine the Story Up My Sleeve and Midweek Music Break series for Wednesdays in May...] Doing this Story Up My Sleeve series has reminded me of a forgotten pleasure: the reading of...
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Story Up My Sleeve #22 / Midweek Music Break: “Stan,” by Eminem
[Don't know what this is? See the Story Up My Sleeve background post. It's also the third weekly Midweek Music Break featuring a "story song," in keeping with the "May is National Short Story Month"...
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Getting Around
[Image: well, that's one way to do it. I'm not really sure what this represents, but it got my attention.] From whiskey river: The Meadow As we walk into words that have waited for us to enter them,...
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Story Up My Sleeve #29 / Midweek Music Break: “Golden Ring,” by Tammy Wynette...
[Don't know what this is? See the Story Up My Sleeve background page. Today's selection also serves as the final weekly Midweek Music Break featuring a "story song," in keeping with the "May is...
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Midweek Music Break: The Coup (and Patton Oswalt), “The Magic Clap”
I have a “real” Midweek Music Break in the pipeline, but it’ll have to wait another week; it’s taking (to my surprise) way too much time in the research for me to finish today. In the meanwhile, here’s...
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The Waking Moment
[Image: Because of childhood associations, all I can think of when I see this is something like, "Come ON. It's Saturday morning! Can I watch cartoons yet? Can I can I can I?!?"] From whiskey river:...
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Potpourri, June 18th (2013 edition)
[Continuing in what seems to have become an annual June 18 tradition, of commenting about whatever the heck I want to...] [Video: Neil Gaiman signs 1200 copies of his newest novel, The Ocean at the End...
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Midweek Music Break: Aoife O’Donovan, “Red & White & Blue & Gold”
Standup comedian Robert Klein used to do a short routine about US President James A. Garfield. Every reference to Garfield (1831-81), said Klein, said exactly the same thing about him. Apparently...
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A Glorious Mess
[Lyrics here. More about the video below.] From whiskey river: Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its...
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(Belated, But Timely) Midweek Music Break: Fifes and Drums
It can be hard to take the music of fifes and drums seriously. Unlike Sousa marches, which I wrote of last year at this time, these marches have never had one single person’s name — a pop-culture...
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What to Do (with, for, in) Just One World
[Video from the Slashdot "News for nerds, stuff that matters" discussion forum: Sarah Campagna discusses her CyberCraft robot-rescue project: building new robots from scraps of old ones. The finished...
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Midweek Music Break: Caitlin Rose, “Pink Champagne”
[Image: Caitlin Rose, looking rather pensive and (if you ask me), well, a little Paris-in-the-'20s, no?] In the photo above, she may look like some sort of exotic Continental anachronism. But Caitlin...
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Weekend (Something Like) Music Break: The Lake House Band, “Five Dollar...
[Image: "laundry day," by user eleanor ryan on Flickr] You’d think a computer professional who got new computers both at work and at home within a few days’ time would be in a shuddery ecstasy of geek...
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Midweek “Music” Break: The Perhaps Non-Musical Sister
For the last couple of years, I’ve been sort of walking backwards in time through my siblings’ birthdays, via Mid-Week Music Breaks. In 2011, I covered the Warren-Zevon-loving Kid Brother; and in 2012,...
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Midweek Music Break: Jherek Bischoff and David Byrne, “Eyes”
The pop-music landscape sometimes to me resembles coarse fabric — fabric with lots of weight and substance, which distracts you from the fact of all the holes in between: “holes” as in “opportunities,”...
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The Awakening
[Video: magician Rob Zabrecky helps The 88 make a point about opening your eyes. Which is to say, I assume The 88 is making that point... 'cause I have no idea what the lyrics of this song are....
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Midweek Music Break: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, “Going Back to New Orleans” and...
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is unapologetically, unwinkingly retro. Their high-energy music feels like it blends so many genres as to be unclassifiable, at least by me. Wikipedia takes the easy way out,...
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Midweek Music Break: Angela Easterling, “La Mer” and “Arkansas Murder Ballad”
The geography of country music is solidly, traditionally, and by rights earthbound: deserts, prairies, and mountains, backwoods and farmland, two-lane blacktop and dirt roads, shingled rooftops and...
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So Little to Say, So Many Ways to Say It
[Image: "IM," graphic by user "L.e.e." on Flickr. The descriptive text below the work there says, FYI, I actually know 3 languages. This is the 3rd one =).] From whiskey river: We can set up a certain...
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