Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 83
Chart Week: February 25, 1978 Song: “Falling” – LeBlanc and Carr Chart Position: #28, 20th week on the chart. Peaked at #13 the week of April 1. Normally I put my song grade at the end of these posts, but for this entry it seems best to offer the assessment up front. This is not a good song. In fact,…
Waylaid
You may recall that a few years back I made fun of S for getting poison ivy for the 90th time since we began dating. I bragged about how I had never gotten it so I must not be allergic to its oils. Within two weeks I wandered into a whole mess of poison ivy vines, had sores all over…
Weekend Notes
College Hoops I’ll save most of my thoughts for a post later in the week. It is always a bit of a relief when we reach this point in the season and have a few days off. November and December are usually a mix of big games and ones that KU should win easily. I’m always left wanting more from…
Friday Playlist
I’ve been dropping a bunch of old school tunes into my working playlist. So this week’s edition is going to be both extra meaty and heavy on the old. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5XCgHNSWXvBntePGEVtKxw?si=25928d2a55e042d3 “Room” – TV Star Seems like a good song for a week when we just broke the record for warmest day on March 1 by five degrees. It is dreamy…
February Media
Shortest month of the year, but I was not short-changed on the media tip. Movies, Shows, etc A Cook’s Tour, season one As I said last month, I recently discovered these were on YouTube. Which is awesome because I’ve never seen them. Anthony Bourdain’s first TV show, and you can see the seeds of what No Reservations and Parts Unknown…
Ranking Shit: Wasted Items
I’ve not been very good about continuing with this concept. It seems like I mostly think of it in relation to music, and I figure I have enough music content here already. Or when I get a decent, non-music idea, I have enough other posts lined up. I have a few of those ideas sitting in my drafts folder and…
Weekend Notes
Kid Hoops A week ago L’s team beat some good sixth graders in the best game they’ve played all year. This week they played another sixth grade team and got crushed. It was a 50–26 loss. And that was with us scoring six points in the last minute. The team we played made at least 7 3’s to our one.…
Friday Playlist
I didn’t spend much time with the new music this week. Between that and a family development, this week’s selections will lean to the old. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6603CvMDlXEa2qm35IdSii?si=c1aa9af6c34a45e4 “I Wasn’t Thinking at All” – Cold Irons Band Jason Isbell released the first single from his upcoming album this week. It didn’t jump out at me. Coincidentally, I also heard this track this…
Reader’s Notebook, 2/23/23
I’m a little behind once again, so these will be brief both for brevity’s sake and because the two older books aren’t so fresh in my noggin. The Confession of Copeland Cane – Kennan Norris I loved this book. It is exactly what the title says: the confession of Copeland Cane, a young Black man from East Oakland. Sometime in…
Jayhawk Talk: Escaping Ft. Worth
Monday night’s win in Ft. Worth deserves a few notes. In Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, he attempts to determine what the perfect win is. Now this was British soccer he was talking about, so the standard is a bit different. I think he settled on a 3–2 triumph when your side trails both 1–0 and 2–1 and scores the winner…