To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
At PJMedia, Stephen Green asserts: This one might only be underappreciated by PJ Media/Townhall readers because while it sold well and earned a Grammy, I’m guessing we don’t have a whole lot of Queen Latifah fans around here. If we do, please speak up now. [crickets] I’m here to fix that. Ya know, I bought […]
This is a bit of a Recycler post, but it’s pretty fresh, gentle reader. I posted this yesterday on social media: All I got for Valentine’s Day was the blues. But that’s what I asked for. Which is true: When my beautiful wife asked what I wanted for Valentine’s Day, I mentioned that I’d added […]
I might have mentioned that my Facebook feed is basically ads, promoted posts (Suggested for you, I suspect, is just an ad by another name), a couple things from people I went to high school with, a posts from Gimlet’s wife showing their kids, bible quote posts from that guy who runs 5Ks in a […]
Gentle reader, you might have noticed no Good Album Hunting or Good Book Hunting posts recently, even though the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library held its autumn book sale last week. I did not go. I alluded to this in book reports leading up to the event–that I might not go–but in the end, […]
Actually, unlike previous reports of fusion between traditional Japanese music and metal, this is more straightforward funk music by a band composed of pretty Japanese women: Coming soon to a musical balance post near you. Assuming I get around to compiling my recent music purchases before they stop being recent. (Link via Robert Zimmerman.)
In addition to showing me ads for every individual song that Misa1 (not to be confused with Maysa or Misia) has released, Facebook has started showing me ads for Messa: Who the heck is Messa? Apparently, the genre is described by Messa as Scarlet Doom. Messa emerged on the first day of 2014. The extreme […]
In 2000, or a little before, someone thought, “Hey, what if we remade Rush Hour, but instead of Chris Tucker playing Chris Tucker, we have Owen Wilson playing Owen Wilson (as seen recently in You, Me, and Dupree and Starsky and Hutch? And we set it in the old West?” The result was Shanghai Nights, […]
Misa (pronounced like Jar Jar Binks would have you pronounce it) is a London-based “trip hop” artist. Maysa (pronounced like it looks), an American jazz singer. Only one is currently in my library so far, so expect Maysa to appear in a musical balance post sometime soon. Although, to be honest, you might be more […]
I just ordered an autographed CD from German band Null Positiv, navigating the site, the store, and the checkout process completely in German (which I do not speak) only then to discover a drop-down list in the footer that, whereupon the user selects English, displays the site completely translated. At least I think I just […]
Two years ago, I said: Oh, no. In the silent auction, I wrote my phone number in the wrong column. Now I owe almost nine million dollars for a peach pie and some chocolate cookies. I was referring to the Republic Pregnancy Resource Center’s annual Bluegrass and Barbecue silent auctions (where I have shopped before). […]
Not to be confused with local singer/songwriter Lily Belle: Who I guess is going by Lilybelle now. Or maybe not–the relatively new Web site linked in her most recent YouTube video is already defunct. Hopefully she’s busy working on a new album since it’s been years since The Sunshine Projects.
So we returned from our vacation on Saturday–we got home about 1pm after departing around 9 from De Soto, and we had to re-route around a traffic incident on Highway 44. Now, when I return home, I have a little trepidation about what might have transpired while we were gone. I generally shut down the […]
I got two $25 gift certificates to Relics Antique Mall for Christmas. Relics’ gift certificates are unique in two ways to Relics’ favor: They expire in a mere six months, and you have to spend the total amount on the gift certificate as they give no change and they’re not gift cards that can carry […]
After I read Book Lust in January for the Winter 2021 Reading Challenge, I was surprised/not surprised to find I had the sequel on my bookshelves. I didn’t buy them at the same time–I bought the first at the Friends of the Christian County Library Book Sale in autumn 2015 and this volume, signed by […]
On Facebook, Jane Monheit touts that her new album, released last week, is doing well: Which led me to wonder, Who is Veronica Swift? A “prodigy” of jazz, the child of jazz musicians, who recorded her first album at the age of nine. Now she’s 26 and has a new album out. I ordered it. […]
Well, now I have done it. I mentioned in December that I had heard a song on WSIE sung by Charles Glenn, the former St. Louis Blues hockey national anthem singer–although to be honest, I kind of missed the Charles Glenn era, attending the majority of my games when Edward Curtis, the previous national anthem […]
Pro-Trump heavy metal guitarist reportedly identified as Capitol rioter: A pro-President Trump heavy metal guitarist has been identified as one of the US Capitol rioters, according to a report. Multiple sources told the Indianapolis Star Wednesday that one of the suspects in the deadly Jan. 6 siege is Jon Schaffer, a founding member of a […]
My accountant and his wife have a podcast. You can see them on YouTube for the nonce, but given that the podcast is entitled “Right From Us”, perhaps not for long. I spotted it when I hit his wife’s blog today because I was looking for something to read that would not be too newsy […]
I kind of feel under attack from various sources lately as I am known to read less-than-high quality poetry, cheap men’s adventure paperbacks, and artist monographs from artists that I don’t like and who lack basic technical skill if not fine motor control. First, Friar tries to stage an intervention by linking to a First […]
As I mentioned the other day, I pre-ordered the debut album by Damascus and got it on the first day it came out. Damascus is the project of a guy I went to high school with who goes by Butch. I’m not sure if that’s his given name–it’s in the yearbook, so perhaps. He was […]