“Everything About It Is a Love Song,” Paul Simon, Surprise“Don’t Dream It’s Over,” Crowded House, Recurring Dream – The Best of Crowded House“I Hate Myself for Losing You,” Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway“I Wanna Be Like You,” Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, This Beautiful Life“Probably,” Lisa Loeb, The Way It Really Is“Love Needs a Heart, ” Jackson Browne, Running on Empty“Since U Been Gone,” Kelly Clarkson, Breakaway“Burnin’ for You,” Mike Watt, Guilt by Association“Next Year,” Foo Fighters, There […]
What with yesterday being Halloween, and all . . . do you read horror? Stories of things that go bump in the night and keep you from sleeping? I thought about asking you about whether you were participating in NaNoWriMo, but I asked that last year. Although . . . if you want to answer that one, too, please feel free to go ahead and do both, or either, your choice! Don’t forget to leave […]
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! And just in time for the end of baseball season, we get this one: Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP), in baseball, is a sabermetric measurement of how many baserunners a pitcher is responsible for allowing per inning pitched. It gives a general measure of a pitcher’s ability to keep batters off base. A WHIP […]
Once again, I’m borrowing a meme from Literary Feline, who issued an open invitation for anyone else who wanted to join in. I thought it might be fun. (And on this “memorable” occasion – Happy Birthday, T! This message is brought to you by T’s sister.) 10 Years Ago (1997): At 33, I felt like my life was actually somewhat together – that would only last for another couple of years, though, and it took […]
Today’s suggestion is from Cereal Box Reader I would enjoy reading a meme about people’s abandoned books. The books that you start but don’t finish say as much about you as the ones you actually read, sometimes because of the books themselves or because of the circumstances that prevent you from finishing. So . . . what books have you abandoned and why? Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people […]
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! I might need to try to find this somewhere – it would take care of a major gap in my music library. Greatest Hits Live is a live album by the punk rock band the Ramones. It was recorded at The Academy in New York City on February 29, 1996. This was their last live performance […]
Just in case anyone was still wondering, here’s the T-or-F breakdown on the “10 Things About Me” I posted last week. I weighed just over four pounds at birth. – TRUE. And I was full-term, as well, but my mom had severe bronchitis for much of the winter she was pregnant with me, and they think that’s what kept me so small. I was incubated for two weeks until I got over five pounds, and […]
Here’s a little book meme I’m borrowing from Literary Feline. Please play along on your own blog if you like! Take the nearest book next to you and answer the following questions: Title and Author: The Fourth Bear – A Nursery Crime, by Jasper Fforde Is the book dedicated to anyone? If so, who? Dedicated to the author’s mother (awww!) What is the first sentence? The little village of Obscurity is remarkable only for its […]
Thanks to Karen for this link to a short quiz to find out if you’ve gotten any “cooler” over the years – it seems like an appropriate way to follow up on the Nerd Test. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address Subscribe Join 2,318 other subscribers
“Rehab,” Amy Winehouse“I Who Have Nothing,” Jordin Sparks (Yes, I downloaded some American Idol performances last season – I guess the secret’s out now)“Can’t Get It Out of My Head,” Fountains of Wayne“My Valentine,” Rhett Miller“Right in Time,” Lucinda Williams“Up the Junction,” Squeeze“There Will Come a Day,” Melinda Doolittle“Promises in the Dark,” Pat Benatar“Rosalita (Come Out Tonight),” Bruce Springsteen“Testing 1,2,3,” Barenaked Ladies If these are the next 10 songs coming up on the World’s Weirdest […]
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! Not the Kelly Clarkson song, but another with the same title: “Because of You” is a popular song. It was written by Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson in 1940 for the movie I Was An American Spy. A 1951 recording by Tony Bennett (Columbia Records catalog number 39362, recorded April 4, 1951) was the first major […]
The “Ten on Tuesday” site was down on Tuesday the 9th, so there’s no official prompt for this week. Sorry folks! The Ten on Tuesday database seems to be corrupt. I’m working on fixing it, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be back up (soon). While we’re down, take the time to write a (top) ten list of your choice! That assignment actually fits very well with this one: My agency had its […]
