The family has returned safely – if a little jet lagged and sniffly – from The Great White North.
Tonight we’re off to a Scottish friend’s Hogmanay bash. As far as I can tell, Hogmanay is just the Scots’ word for New Year’s Eve, but if anyone out there knows more than I – unlikely as [...]
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Merry Christmas!
Happy Holidays to all my readers! Wishing you and yours a joyful Christmas season. It’s been a blue Christmas without your comments. Come back and visit in the New Year after our return from the frozen North. Until then, enjoy Bright Eyes’ interpretation of the Elvis classic.
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And the winner is….
“Take the poison of your age
Don’t lick your fingers when you turn the page
What I know is what you know is right
In the city it’s the only light
It’s the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right…”
-Arcade Fire – “Neon Bible”
To remind you how we got here:
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Constant as a northern star
“On the back of a cartoon coaster
In the blue TV screen light
I drew a map of Canada
Oh Canada
And your face sketched on it twice…”
-Joni Mitchell – “A Case of You”
I’m really leaning on Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” this holiday season. With Christmas nearly upon us, “A Case of You” has been getting nearly as heavy rotation [...]
Reader Gratitude Contest – Time is running out!
Readers of this blog will know that I’ve been counting down my choices for the ten best albums of 2007 for a couple of weeks now. Ahead of revealing the number one album on Friday I’ve decided to run a little contest as a thanks for my readers. I will give away your choice of [...]
Wordless Wednesday: A Wonderful, Awful Idea
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Science Tuesday: Snake Oil?
“The tears on my shoulder
Freeze then boil
I wouldn’t be here
If not for your snake oil…”
-Kristin Hersh – “Snake Oil”
One side-effect of the global warming era is that if you can sell a concept or products as “green” it can go a long way. There is a green alternative for nearly every product that you use [...]
Why, Gordon, why?
What did I do to offend you, Mr. Brown? Seriously, your prime minister-ship, what have I done to become your nemesis? A couple of weeks after you lost my bank details it seems as if you’ve chucked my driver’s license information away somewhere in Iowa of all places. Why were my driver’s license details in [...]
Z’s Music Monday and the Top 10 Albums of 2007: No. 2 The Shins – “Wincing the Night Away”
“Though I knew you masked your disdain.
I can see that change was just too hard for us,
Hard for us.
You always had to hold the reins,
But where I’m headed, you just don’t know the way.
The Shins – “Turn On Me”
I thought it would be fun to combine posts today, so I played Z my second favorite [...]
Top 10 Albums of 2007: No. 3 Okkervil River – “The Stage Names” and WIN One of the Top 10
“You were caught kissing 8 chinese brothers
Well, there’s a reason why the last is smiling wider and sitting higher than the others
Stinking with charm
And he says, “Lets get lost, let them send out alarms
He says, “Let’s get crossed out and come to harm”
“Lets make the world’s stupidest stand and truly mean it
Lets hit the limit [...]
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