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December 8, 2014
Monday Morning Music
I’ve been a fan of the Be Good Tanyas for a while now. One of the reasons is Frazey Ford’s gorgeous voice. Here’s a new solo piece from her most recent album, Indian Ocean. The track’s called “September Fields” and my only complaint about it is that it wanders away with a fadeout at the […]
December 1, 2014
Monday Morning Music
Well, as promised, here’s video from the band I got to see while I was in Boston the weekend before last. These folks are a Canadian quartet consisting of two brothers (the guitarist and the drummer) and two unrelated folks (the harpist and the keyboardist/percussionist). They played “Half Crazy” at the show and I found […]
November 30, 2014
Fat, Strong, and Confident (Guest Post)
Originally posted on Fit Is a Feminist Issue:
Five years ago I couldn’t walk three blocks without an embarrassing amount of huffing, puffing, and sweating. I would cancel invitations if there was any amount of walking. The shame of falling behind or asking to take breaks was unbearable. That’s if I got close to getting…
Five years ago I couldn’t walk three blocks without an embarrassing amount of huffing, puffing, and sweating. I would cancel invitations if there was any amount of walking. The shame of falling behind or asking to take breaks was unbearable. That’s if I got close to getting…
November 24, 2014
Monday Afternoon Music
Ah, what a busy day it’s been so far. And there was an awesome, fun, busy weekend just past, as well. I went to Boston to visit a friend, play Ingress, and see some live music, among many other things. It was a blast. My friend and I were hacking portals downtown when we arrived […]
November 17, 2014
Monday Morning Music
So, I considered myself a Grateful Dead fan (never had the teddy bears on my car, so technically not a deadhead?) long before this song came out, got huge, and the dreaded word “sellout” was being bandied about. “Touch of Grey” came out in 1987. I was living in deadhead central at the time: Oakland, […]
November 10, 2014
Monday Morning Music
Monday again. Yeah, that’ll happen. I woke up this morning not knowing what to post today, and I’ve been browsing around Youtube for a little while. The big discovery?Roger Daltrey apparently performs Who tunes with a lot of different people. I would have posted the video of him performing “Summertime Blues” with Joan Jett, but […]
November 3, 2014
Monday Morning Music
Happy November! The weather is changing into winter before our eyes up here in VT. I’m still in a spooky-ish video mood, though.I seem to have jumped on the Unwoman bandwagon in recent times. The music exchange club Alpha Reader & I belong to has a couple fans who’ve been spreading the love lately. Unwoman […]
October 29, 2014
Dog Days by Joe McKinney – A Review
Dog Days Joe McKinney JournalStone (July 2014) young adult/horror 2.375/5 I received a copy of Joe McKinney’s Dog Days through LibraryThing‘s Early Reviewer program. The book got my hopes up with a strong start, introducing us to Mark, a Texan teenager at the beginning of his summer vacation, who wakes up to the aftermath of […]
October 27, 2014
Monday Morning Music – Hallowe’en Edition
Well, October is almost over. This is its last Monday, and I’ve only posted one spooky video in honor of Hallowe’en. That’s disappointing, at least to me. I’ll try to make up for it with a trio of videos today. First up are the Brian Sisters, a singing trio successful in the 1930s and 1940s. […]
October 14, 2014
Wolf Interval by Chrysoula Tzavelas – A Review
Wolf Interval Chrysoula Tzavelas Candlemark & Gleam (October 2014) young adult/urban fantasy 4.25/5 Wolf Interval, the third book in Chrysoula Tzavelas’ Senyaza series, is coming out this month. I was lucky enough to get an ARC so I could share my thoughts about it with you. (And I will be honest here–the author and I […]
