Friday Playlist
The bulk of this week’s playlist is one of my dumb group of songs that share some minor trait. The music is good even if the “concept” is stupid. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2w2pfIdmyU1VVsYq8xvVgW?si=a203e99bd4d14588 “Summer Breeze” – Seals and Crofts It’s summertime, bitches. “High Life” – Bloc Party “American Candy” – The High Water Marks “Ease On” – The High Violets “Standing on an…
Ted Lasso: One for the Road
Some notes about the end of Ted Lasso. To reset, S had never watched the show before, so in April we watched together from the very first episode. We got caught up three weeks ago, watching the final three episodes on the nights they were released. After binging 30 or so in about 20 nights, I hated going old school…
Grad Night, Part 2
We had our final official event at St P’s last night: the graduation of L’s 8th grade class. We got a new priest a little over a year ago after our long-time, very popular priest retired. The new guy has received a decidedly mixed reaction. As I’m not Catholic I won’t get into the details. That said, homie knocked out…
Holiday Weekend Notes
It was a very busy, extra long, extra special holiday weekend. Let’s get into the details. Thursday L’s next-to-last day of middle school. She begged us to host the annual 8th grade pool party. After weeks of badgering us we relented. Not sure I would have said yes if her class was bigger, but only 28 kids seemed manageable. Everyone…
Friday Playlist
I planned on taking this week’s playlist one direction, then some things happened in the music world, I realized it was a holiday weekend, and we ended our academic year, so I decided to mix things up. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3YZ55WO2OKkrOtWsoa4eTj?si=c85864566c5b446f “Lay Low” – My Morning Jacket I watched a documentary on MMJ’s 2004 Bonnaroo performance the other night. Which means I spent…
Protecting Your Mailbox
A very busy week around here, so not sure if I’ll get any more proper posts up until after the holiday weekend. I did run across this article this morning and it’s how I’ve been spending the last 30 minutes or so. If you’re sick of your mailbox being filled up with credit card offers, insurance spiels, and other unsolicited…
Graduation Weekend Notes
Grad Week We officially have a high school graduate! The week leading up to Sunday’s graduation ceremony was jam-packed for M. Her final day of school was last Monday. They were supposed to go in for first period Tuesday but she (and most of her classmates) opted to skip that.[1] She had little activities each day but Thursday was when…
Friday Playlist
Quite the mixed bag this week. We’ll begin with a couple tracks that owe a huge debt to ’90s Brit Pop, hear a classic from that era, dive into some Aussie music, and then get even more eclectic. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1aCRWYCQtr4fsR87jVmy2g?si=33cdad6f47774488 “Savior” – Siracuse I have a buddy who is super into all things Manchester. Man United. The whole music scene. But…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 85
Chart Week: April 23, 1983 Song: “Whirly Girl” – Oxo Chart Position: #28, 10th week on the chart. This was its chart peak. We love to celebrate the one hit wonders that made a big impact on the charts and the culture. Toni Basil. Nena. Tommy Tutone. Artists of that nature that you still hear today. Then there are the…
Tuesday Links
The Tech Toddler has struck again. Naturally it was McSweeney’s that called him out best. As a free speech absolutist, only death could stop me from defending the rights of Twitter users to speak without censorship. Well, either death or a request from an autocratic leader asking that I censor certain content that could be sensitive for their regime. Whichever…