Reaching For The Stars, Vol. 94
Chart Week: November 14, 1981 Song: “Never Too Much” – Luther Vandross Chart Position: #37, 6th week on the chart, first week in the Top 40. Peaked at #33 for two weeks. Happy Thanksgiving week to you all! A quick entry based on a Casey anecdote about how a pop artist paid the bills before he started making hits of…
Weekend Notes
Kind of a chill weekend, with the holiday ahead of us. M does not come home until Tuesday so it was the usual crew around the house. L had a game Friday, more on that later. The weather was nice, so S and I did some yard work at a sister’s house Sunday. And a fair amount of football, the…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0MPKDxxlLKjK7qdv3S0cJx?si=ddff3358588541bf “Beaming” – The Treasures of Mexico What a glorious piece of jangle pop this is, harkening back to the mid-80s college rock scene. “What Now” – Brittany Howard Howard bringing the funk to her blues. If you don’t like this, stop reading these posts. “Beautiful Sky” – Semisonic featuring Jim James I gave Semisonic’s new album a listen when…
Jayhawk Talk: Champions Classic
Without going back and reading a bunch of them, I’m assuming my Champions Classic posts have a similar theme every year: that wasn’t pretty basketball. Most years it is at least competitive, but despite the big-time matchup, it rarely has the same juice as a March tournament game. Chalk that up for another year, with #1 KU outlasting Kentucky by…
Tuesday Links
As promised, I have a big batch of articles to share. I read most of these while on our trip last weekend, thus on my Kindle, which meant I couldn’t clip pull quotes as I read. With a couple exceptions, you’ll just have to trust me that these are worth your time. Most are pretty lengthy, so if you have…
Weekend Travel Notes
It was Adult Fall Break time for S and me, the first time we’ve done this in a couple years. This was for a medical conference, the first time we’ve done that since before Covid. We spent Thursday through Sunday in Clearwater Beach, FL, staying right on the beach. Like in a hotel, not in a tent or something. The…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 93
Chart Week: November 5, 1983 Song: “Automatic Man” – Michael Sembello Chart Position: #34, 7th week on the chart. This was the song’s peak. A quick RFTS to fill the place of the Friday Playlist as we are taking an adult fall break for the next few days. The 100th entry in this series is getting very close. I’ve been…
High School Hoops Chronicles, Season One, Volume One
Welcome to the first post in a new, recurring series in these parts. L started her high school basketball career Tuesday night, and I think that deserves a clearly identified set of entries to document her adventures. The season opener was against the Jesuit school not too far from our house, BPHS. We have good friends who have a son…
Reader’s Notebook, 11/7/23
The Kennedy Men – Laurence Leamer After about a month of reading, split into sections, I knocked out my Big Book for the fall. A neighbor passed this to me over the summer. We were sitting on the porch having some drinks and somehow books or the Kennedys or something along those lines came up and she mentioned she had…
Weekend Notes
Not a bad weekend at all. The weather was wonderful, and looks to remain that way for a few more days, then seasonably warm after that. Changing the clocks always sucks. And plenty of football, of course. HS Football The Cathedral game was on TV so we were able to watch them get a relatively easy 20–3 sectional championship win…