Mine was called The Yellow Bird. Tom Hachtman‘s was The Goshdarnwich. Yum.
saying goodbye to 2009
December 31st, 2009
Some will say 2009 was a good year, and others will say it was a bad year. Me, I hardly noticed it, slipping by as quickly and subtly as it did. Plus – just as many folks give up meat or smoking because they’re bad for you – I’ve been trying not to let too much concern about time into my life. I mean, what is it anyway? We’ve done well to control it with calendars and clocks, but we haven’t actually tamed it, have we. I imagine it feels it’s the one that has us trained, if Time could think such a thing or anything at all. And perhaps it would be right…. (more…)
Tags: tesla, time
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let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
December 23rd, 2009
I love snow. Probably because, growing up in the Deep South, there wasn’t a lot of it around. Oh sure, we managed a flurry most years, but accumulation was a rare and meager thing: one inch and the whole town shut down. White Christmas? I didn’t know what that song was about until I was a teenager, since having snow on Christmas Day was never even a remote consideration. (more…)
Tags: christmas, snow
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is tom hanks giving you a hard time?
November 30th, 2009
Is Tom Hanks Giving You A Hard Time?
Thanksgiving came and went without so much as a burp, if by burp you mean song (and I do). This song was intended to be a song for that holiday, but well you know me and so it’s moved along and become probably just what it wanted to be all along: not that at all. Oh there’s still some Thanksgiving in it – we haven’t finished all of our turkey, after all – but it’s mostly Tom Hanks giving you a hard time, not me. Just let it go…. (more…)
Tags: thanksgiving
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lonesome vampire bill
October 31st, 2009
Perhaps there’s no better time for a sacrilege than Halloween.
As the end of this month was drawing nigh and I was finally finding some time to work on this month’s song, I decided to do something in the frightful orange spirit of this holiday. I’ve been catching up on the first season of True Blood (having abandoned it last year as too not for me after watching the first episode…vampires don’t socialize with humans, after all), and I’m enjoying it now. I somehow got sucked in – if you’ll allow me to stick my neck out and say that – for the second season and so had to go back and find out the things I’d missed. Netflix to the rescue. (more…)
Tags: halloween, vampires, velvet underground
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