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December 2, 2013
Monday Afternoon Music
So, it’s Cyber Monday and that means gorilla and yeti costumes, doesn’t it? Around here it does, anyway. The Pack A.D. just keeps getting better. Here’s their new single “Big Shot.” Filed under: Monday Morning Music, Music Tagged: Big Shot, Cyber Monday, music, Pack A.D., video
November 26, 2013
Mindscape by Andrea Hairston – A Review
In my last WOGF reading challenge review, I remarked on how one of the main points of Native Tongue gets bogged down amidst all the other plot threads Suzette Haden Elgin tries to bring together. That point being the attempt of a group of women Linguists to create their own language, a necessary thing given […]
November 25, 2013
Monday Morning Music
Went to see Frank Turner at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton last night. Lots of fun, as usual! My only complaint is the same as when I went to see him at the Pearl Street Club in March. The sound mix royally sucked. What is it with IHEG shows? If a dive bar in Baltimore […]
November 18, 2013
Monday Morning Music
Okay, this morning? Well, looks like it’s going to be a classic rock day. Up until the Jeep went into the transmission shop for a brand new transmission last week (where it still is), I was playing nothing but Jethro Tull on the cd deck. Hadn’t listened to them in a while, so the revisit […]
November 11, 2013
Monday Morning Music
This week’s Monday Morning Music is going to be less serious (and horribly punny) than last week’s. Today I’m just aiming for fun. Yoko Ono released a new album in September. It’s called Take Me To The Land of Hell and it’s pretty good. You can stream it for free at Ono’s website. One song […]
November 5, 2013
Update from the Endoscopy Suite
Well, not really. I’m back at work. But I figured since I told everyone yesterday about my upcoming colonoscopy, it only seemed fair to give you an update on how things went. They went fine. The doctor found two very small polyps that he removed. Everything else looked great. Especially hopeful: the site of the […]
November 4, 2013
Monday Morning PSA
This feels awkward to write about, because it’s rather personal. But I think I should use my little soapbox I have here for good as much as I can. Let’s start off with this. My grandfather died of colon cancer back in the 1940s. His was a slow, painful death. No fun at all and […]
October 31, 2013
Happy Hallowe’en!
So, it hit me in the face this morning that I haven’t posted any spooky videos this month. And today’s Hallowe’en! I only have today left to do something about that. So why don’t I? Let’s start with a cute promo that Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi filmed back in the ’30s. This always makes […]
October 28, 2013
Monday Morning Music
Yeah, so Lou Reed died yesterday. He was, wow… he’s been one of my favorite musicians for a long, long time. Probably since I first heard “Walk on the Wild Side” on the AM radio station that the place I worked in high school used to play. So, we’re talking late-1970s. And it still amuses […]
October 25, 2013
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin – A Review
Suzette Haden Elgin published Native Tongue, the first book in this eponymous trilogy, in 1984. I was 22 in 1984. I remember Reagan’s election and how many of us on the left (I was already quite at home way over on the left wing) were frightened by the possibilities, many of which have come to […]
