Holiday Weekend Notes (Heavy With Cooking Content)
We’ve reached the midway point in academic summer, an occasional always highlighted by our family’s July 4th celebrations. This year’s was a little lower key than recent ones. We had no out-of-town visitors this time, so fewer cousins, aunts, and uncles running around. It was as hot as it’s been any recent year, so it was probably good we had…
Independence Day Playlist
Only one change to the playlist for this year, which is now four years old. The dark tone that carries through many of these songs seems more appropriate this year. I hope you all have happy and safe gatherings.
Emergency Sports Post
Some MASSIVE sports news dropped on Thursday. With Monday being a holiday, who knows what can happen between now and when I get around to sharing some thoughts. So a quick-ish, emergency post about… UCLA/USC Jumping To Big 10 WHAT?!?!!? Where the fuck did this come from? I have to say, I am utterly amazed that the UT/OU to SEC…
Friday Playlist
Over halfway through the year; that’s kind of nutty! Be looking for my annual bonus playlist on Monday. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ptS7CPCztYAfNIpdvLtSe?si=e556e77807424c28 “Rubberneckers” – Christian Lee Hutson A perfect mid-summer song in tone, this is about how many people you run across in LA who have made messes of their lives. It doesn’t take much to extrapolate that to our entire country right…
Stats
June 2022 The War on Drugs – 106 MUNA – 40 Dehd – 25 The Beatles – 25 Night Moves – 23 Complete stats available at my Last.fm page.
Reader’s Notebook, 6/29/22
Midnight in Siberia – David Greene Interesting timing on reading this. Greene is a former NPR reporter who was the network’s Moscow bureau chief in the early 2010s. Late in his tenure, he took the Trans-Siberian Railway 6000 miles across Russia. In 2014, he returned to take the same journey and write about it. It is a fascinating read because…
NBA Draft Notes
I loathe the NFL draft. It is the most over-hyped event in sports. Primarily because there are very few players picked in that draft that make an immediate and profound impact on their teams. For every Joe Burrow, there are dozens and dozens of players that take two, three, even five years to acclimate to the professional level, complete their…
Travel Hoops Wrap Up
Travel basketball came to a disappointing end for L over the weekend. Her team lost in the semifinals to a squad they had beaten twice this year. That team went on to win the championship by four points. So it was right there for our girls and they blew it. Saturday’s pool games were two very different contests. In the…
Friday Playlist
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2FbAXvuHtGlC0YyOzLsW1a?si=e73c41154e6b4525 “Birthdays” – Craig Finn Hey, I had a birthday this week! Coincidentally this is the best song from Craig Finn’s latest solo album. “I Was Neon” – Julia Jacklin The first single off JJ’s up-coming album was solid. This one cooks. “Wait ‘Til the Morning” – Frightened Rabbit Spotify suggested this, a bonus track from the final FR album,…
Reaching for the Stars, Vol. 75
Chart Week: June 20, 1981 Song: “Angel of the Morning” – Juice Newton Chart Position: #38, 18th week on the chart. Peaked at #4 for four weeks in May. Juice Newton was a classic Right Artist at the Right Time success. Although she came up in the world of folk music, by the early 1980s she had slid into a…