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I might have mentioned that I have an aunt who might be terminally ill in St. Charles. I have been remiss in visiting the St. Louis area and seeing her in the last ten years since we bought Nogglestead–I might have been back only two or three times–so I have been inventing excuses to drive […]
Yesterday, I took the boys up north to the Ozark Empire Fairgrounds to attend the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale where I predicted I would gorge on $1 record albums. Which proved truer than I thought. I bought a bunch. I got: KC and the Sunshine Band by KC and the Sunshine […]
We had a couple of minutes to kill before the school fundraiser began at Chick-Fil-A this evening, so we stopped by a couple of nearby thrift stores. I found a couple records at the Salvation Army thrift store, and I got a real deal as the clerk rang them up incorrectly and then let me […]
So I’m watching the video for Herb Alpert’s 1987 hit, “Diamonds”, from his album Keep Your Eye On Me which is the only Herb Alpert album I own on cassette (which is okay, because I have a cassette player in my new-to-me truck and get to listen to the album all the time). At any […]
So yesterday, I found myself at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton annual sale, and they had a couple of boxes of records. I found a couple that looked interesting and bought them along with a couple of glass vases to etch. Then, I found myself at Relics Antique Mall as my wife is looking for […]
Yesterday I mentioned films I had seen more than once in the theater, and it got me thinking (but not right before bed) about other things I have seen more than once. Plays Table Manners, one of the three in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests. When I was at the university, the Milwaukee Rep played […]
Friends, somehow this spring’s book sale sneaked up on me, so I only found an opportunity to visit it on half price day today. Which worked out all right for me, as I only spent thirty some dollars on records. Which is 61 LPs, double-albums, and boxed sets. I got: Asilos de Abandonados Miguel Aceves […]
It’s been like eight months since I posted about my musical balance, wherein I prove yet again that my musical taste runs in jazz songbirds and heavy metal. Well, Brian J., you ask. How have you done over the Christmas season, where the One For You/One For Me protocol takes effect? Well. Last Christmas, the […]
On Tuesday, I helped set up for this sale, which meant I unboxed the books for the Art tables and sorted the Animal books by animal type. Little did I know that those who volunteer on Tuesday get to shop immediately when the book sale is set up. So I didn’t have my checkbook, but […]
Herb Alpert shared on Facebook that he’s got some upcoming shows, so I clicked through to see if he’s going to be anywhere nearby. “Whoa!” I thought, “He’s going to be in St. Louis…Michigan. Never mind.” Oops. That’s a mistake on Herb Alpert’s Web site. Herb Alpert sells out the Grandel. Apparently, the Grandel Theatre […]
Well, perhaps it’s not the music library and more the recent purchases. As I’ve mentioned, my music purchases tend to fall into two camps: Heavy metal and female jazz vocalists. However, the I recently noted that I’d bought a run of metal: Danger Danger Return of the Great Guildersleeves Fozzy Judas Danger Danger Danger Danger […]
Danger Danger’s The Return of the Great Gildersleeves: Well, all right, maybe not, but the old timey blogs pointed the way. First, on the Facebook, Blackfive posted a song by eighties band Danger Danger: I liked the sound–man, do I miss the eighties–so I bought the debut CD. When I was thinking about picking up […]
Herb Alpert, Lani Hall will perform in Springfield: Herb Alpert and Lani Hall will perform at Gillioz Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. Reserved seating tickets start at $36.50 and go on sale Friday, July 14, at 10 a.m. Gillioz Club members will have a presale opportunity on July 13 from 10 – […]
As you may know, gentle reader, I have a growing collection of Spanish songbirds, including classic artists like Rocío Jurado, Rocío Dúrcal, Claudia Acuña, and others as well as pop equivalents Shakira and Paulina Rubio. I’ve also picked up a small collection of singers in Portuguese, such as Astrud Gilberto, Beth Carvalho, and Gal Costa, […]
On Tuesday, one of my children called from school to indicate that he was not feeling well. Whenever I pick up a child sick from school with a questionable ailment, I like to take him somewhere that he doesn’t like to go to celebrate the partial day off school: namely, thrift stores and antique malls. […]
Heh, heh, heh. Did I say that the Clever book sale might be the only one we hit this autumn? Yeah, I recant that testimony. On both Friday and Saturday, circumstances led me and one or more of my children to the northern reaches of Springfield (almost south Bolivar, really) where the Friends of the […]
The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library moved the semiannual book sale from a location about fifteen minutes from me to a location about forty-five minutes away, plus or minus fifteen minutes with traffic. So I’m only going once this year, and I made a beeline to the record albums. I knew I was going […]
On Saturday morning, my boys and I went to a couple of book sales, and late Saturday afternoon, a birthday party sugared my children to approximately 62,000 Hz. (My scientific studies have shown that a lot of sugar can make children very high pitched, no amount of sugar can actually render them too high pitched […]
The critics predicted it: Gay marriage becomes the law of the land, and people would start buying albums of show tunes. Although, in my defense in this case, it was a collection of Pat Suzuki singing show tunes: If Mark Steyn can listen to show tunes, I can, too. At any rate, the acquisition stems […]
Today, I visited the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Spring Book Sale for the first time. Over the last couple of years, I’ve adopted a staged approach to the book sale. First, I go for the albums, and then I go back and look over the books, preferably on half price or bag day. […]