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The Best Debut Album

I’ve recently written about the perfect album (REM’s Automatic For the People) and the best Three song intro to a new artist (Bruce Hornsby’s The Way It is, Mandolin Rain, and Every Little Kiss). Hornsby’s three did not produce the best debut album, however, because the rest of the album isn’t as good. And no, […]

Birds In Flight

An experiment I’m trying on my other blog:

Best Three Song Intro

I was looking around Spotify for something to listen to. I’ve been spending weeks and months listening to the same playlists that include the same rotation of songs. I found a playlist I had forgotten I had made. It’s my 80s/90s playlist and it includes some of my favorite songs from that era. Those songs […]

A Couple Of Updates

Long-time followers of this blog will likely remember that I’ve had a long battle with beer. I love the stuff and it has been a part of my evening ritual for … well … decades. For years, it didn’t have much affect on me, but over the last ten years there was more and more […]

The End of Basketball

After reading my last post about baseball, Berthold encouraged me to write similar posts about the NBA and the NFL. So … Sadly, my favorite team has contributed to the death of basketball than any other team. As a long suffering Warriors fan, I was thrilled by what the Warriors did starting around ten years […]

The End Of Baseball

No. They’ll keep playing the game. But we are witnessing the end of the game as we once knew it. What baseball was for decades was a starting pitcher that would go deep into games. The best pitchers threw complete game after complete game after complete game. Bullpens were not much of a thing. On […]

A Song For Today

Bruce Springsteen released this song in 1973 on his debut album. I rarely listen to his version. It just doesn’t do much for me. The sound is just … thin. But a few years later, Manfred Mann’s Earth Band released a cover of Blinded By the Light that I believe did much better than Springsteen’s […]

Bookish Thoughts

I recently read The Plot Against America by Philip Roth. The book tells the story of a 1940 election that does not see FDR re-elected. Instead, Charles Lindbergh runs as the anti-war candidate, promising to stay out of the war in Europe. He wins and America stays out of the war. It also starts to […]

VRBO — The Final Chapter?

See here for the previous post on this topic. I woke up this morning to a couple of emails from VRBO. The refund of the $700 damage charge has been approved. And. And! AND!!! The property owner’s account with VRBO has been suspended. Which tells me this is not the first time they have had […]

VRBO — Nine Days Later

On December 18, I wrote a post about a problem I’m having with the owner of a rental we got through VRBO, and the accompanying problems with VRBO. After I posted that, I shared it on Twitter and tagged VRBO in the tweet. I got a response relatively quickly and ultimately had some conversations with […]