Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 44
Chart Week: June 23, 1984Song: “Obscene Phone Caller” – RockwellChart Position: #39, 8th week on the chart. Peaked at #35 the week of June 30. I have always prided myself for knowing minor hits by artists who have been labeled as One Hit Wonders by the general public. Others find this trait annoying, but it’s kind of too late to…
Friday Playlist
As promised, a playlist for the holiday weekend. This is the same PL I shared last year on July 4. I listened to it again this week and still thought it was pretty good. I hope you enjoy it, and have a happy and safe Independence Day weekend.
New Jams for Your Head
I’m about to check out for the holiday weekend. I’ll post a special playlist for the weekend on Friday. Before I step back for a few days, I thought I’d provide some more music recommendations. So here are a few good albums from the first six months of 2020. If you have free time over the next few days, open…
Reader’s Notebook
The Cold Dish – Craig JohnsonThis is the time of year when I abandon my To Read list and seek out Best Summer Reads type lists online. One such list suggested this book, which was a nice spin on the detective procedural. Walt Longmire is a sheriff in a small town in Wyoming. He is in his 50s, widowed, and…
An Update on the Golf
Life continues to be fairly boring. Well, at least in our house. There is obviously plenty going on in the world, and I’m feeling the urge to revive my Covid posts. This weekend was especially boring, thanks to plenty of much-needed rain most of the day Saturday and then on Sunday morning. S has been busy trying to knock out…
Friday Playlist
Another longer set of music this week. “Find Your Way Back Home” – Neil Finn featuring Stevie Nicks and & Christine McVie The whole Neil Finn replacing Lyndsey Buckingham in Fleetwood Mac thing is so odd that I kind of refuse to believe that it actually happened. But Finn leveraged that to get his two most famous new bandmates to…
Dads and Dishwashers
The dishwasher is a constant source of battle in our house. As I considered it this week, while once again rearranging dishes my kids put in the wrong spots, I realized I am never more of a Dad than when I’m correcting how they put dishes into the dishwasher. “These can’t go on the bottom rack, they stick through and…
Weekend Notes
First off, obviously some changes to the site’s look. Big changes, for now. I know it’s a little jarring and I’m not sure if I’ll stick with it, but as I was doing some other administrative work, I figured why not throw up a theme that looks like nothing else I’ve used in my 17-year blogging career? I’m happy to…
Friday Playlist
It looks like it has been nearly a month since I shared new music in a Friday post. That has left quite a backlog. So let’s get caught up with a mega-playlist to take us into Father’s Day weekend. “Carousels” – Doves. The first new Doves song in over a decade, and it does not disappoint. Sounds mature yet maintains…
Reader’s Notebook, 6/17/20
The Border – Don Winslow For an author, finishing a trilogy has to be difficult. Especially when you didn’t set out to write a three-book series to begin with. This is the final entry in Winslow’s excellent Power of the Dog series, in which he unfurls the epic story of the rise and fall of a Mexican drug empire and…