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Your Daily Dose of Christmas
It's Christmas Eve. May your Christmas herald the coming of wonderful things and peace in your lives.Here's Stevie Nicks.
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2015: I've had better, I've had worse
So, 2015 is almost done. This was a pretty strange year. A lot of people I know and love seem to have had a less-than-stellar year in 2015. Mine wasn't bad at all, but at the same time, it wasn't the...
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2015: Posts and Pictures
Here's a small selection of things I wrote in 2015 in this space.Buffasaurus Rex (Mainly because I like the pun in the title)On story BiblesOn screws (seriously.)Ranking the James Bond Theme SongsIn...
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National Whipped Cream Day
I know, the day is almost over, but I didn't want to let the day go by without a recognition of National Whipped Cream Day! I've no idea why a day honoring such a wonderful substance would be January...
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Something for Thursday
Let's start the year with...country! Specifically, the Oak Ridge Boys. Now, this group has been around forever; I remember hearing "Y'all Come Back Saloon" on my parents' record player when we were...
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Bad Joke Friday
And we're back! So what's the over-under on weeks until I reuse a joke without realizing it?Anyway....
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Last Night's Sky
A stunning sunset greeted me as I left work last evening, and by the time I drove home, the sky had caught fire. The first photo is right outside the front door of The Store, and the second is near my...
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Symphony Saturday
Brahms’s reputation as a brooding and introspective composer probably seems hard to justify, if the only work of his with which you are familiar is his second symphony. This work, almost unversally...
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Mr. Bowie
This one-off video, made at Live-Aid, was the first time I ever heard David Bowie. I will never not love this.
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Something for Thursday (Alan Rickman edition)
I hate that Alan Rickman died today. I hate that more than I hate that David Bowie died the other day, and I really hated that. I had something picked out for this feature, but I decided to postpone...
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Bad Joke Friday
A visual pun, because (what with Mr. Rickman's passing) I have Harry Potter on the brain....
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Symphony Saturday
For some reason that I'm not quite sure of, I've never warmed much to Brahms's Third Symphony (F major, op. 90). I've listened to it more in this last week -- as I write this, I'm hearing it for the...
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Yes, Welsh mythology and Star Wars toys TOTALLY go together!
So, for Christmas my sister gave me a really cool framed poster from Wales, depicting the country's map by the rich tapestry of its mythology. Last week I hung it on the wall.I also put a small shelf...
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Bad Joke Friday
Overheard at the National Funeral Director Convention:FUNERAL DIRECTOR ONE: I don't know, Fred, do you think glass caskets will ever be viable?FUNERAL DIRECTOR TWO: Remains to be seen.
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Something for Thursday
I have two writing projects going on at once, which somewhat feels like this:
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Bad Joke Friday
I bought the world's worst thesaurus yesterday. Not only is it terrible, it's terrible!
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