• Stats

    March 2021 * Middle Kids – 47 * The Pack A.D. – 42 * Crowded House – 32 * Hatchie – 18 * Pearl Jam – 13 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.

  • March Media

    Don’t think I’m going to add anything new in the next 24 hours, so I’ll go ahead and drop this and knock one item off my new month checklist. Shows and Movies Spring Baking Championship It’s been awhile, but I finally decided to watch one of these shows that didn’t wasn’t focused on Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Easter. I’m not sure…

  • Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 55

    Chart Week: March 26, 1983 Song: “I Know There’s Something Going On” – Frida Chart Position: #13, 21st week on the chart. Peaked there for three weeks. One great thing about The Number Ones series is how it has forced me to re-evaluate artists I soured on over the years. Phil Collins is a perfect example. I forgot how many…

  • Spring Break 2021

    Another spring break has come and gone. We spent the week on Anna Maria Island, Florida, just outside of Tampa. Although we planned our trip independently, it turns out AMI and the surrounding communities are one of the most popular destinations for families from Indy area Catholic schools. Our girls were very excited to learn how many of their friends…

  • Oh Yeah…

    Gonzaga, Texas, Baylor, Illinois. Zags over Illini in title game. KU loses to USC Monday. Unless they play Drake. Then they sweep the Iowa schools and lose by 12 (again) to the Zags in the Elite 8.

  • Friday Vids

    I have a busy day of spring break travel prep ahead of me, so just a video for this week. We shall reconvene for our weekly listening party on Good Friday. “A Quick One (While He’s Away)” – The Who I’ve heard about this performance before, but had never watched it. Two different people referenced it over the past week…

  • Reader’s Notebook, 3/18/21

    Well, shit. It appears that I’ve lost what was supposed to be my most recent Reader’s Notebook entry. I remember writing it and swore I posted it. (The books included were N.K. Jemisin’s The City We Became and John Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.) Since this entry references one of those books, I was looking…

  • Whoa, We’re Halfway There…

    One shot down, one to go. That’s right, I am 50% of the way to being fully vaccinated against Covid 19! Indiana dropped the age limit to 45 yesterday. A friend, who also turns 50 this June, told me Monday night he heard rumors the state would be dropping the requirement below 50 Tuesday morning. He got up early, checked…

  • Fun With Travel

    This was a delightful read. Since it happened in 1977, seems legit. If you could even try to pull it off today – and seems like there’s too much technology to make it possible – I don’t think anyone would believe you. Also, 17 beers a day does not seem ideal. The bizarre tale of the world’s last lost tourist,…