To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
I prefer Linda Ronstadt’s rendition of “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered”. Here is Ella Fitzgerald’s version, which I’ve enjoyed for decades: Back when I was filling my evenings with eBay doings and then writing a book, an Ella Fitzgerald compilation featuring this track was in the 6 disc CD changer in my office, so I heard […]
I have a cousin who listens to a lot of hard rock and heavy metal, so this year for Christmas, I gave her a framed hard rock album since I couldn’t find a different one at the thrift stores before Christmas. I put it in a frame and put some text on a label, and […]
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, […]
This book is the third I read on vacation. As you might remember, it is one of three books I bought at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library this spring amid oh so many albums. It’s a short book–111 pages. It’s not a play, it’s a short novel, with dense, vivid prose that draws […]
I remember this book being mentioned explicitly (well, not that explicitly) in George Carlin’s comedy routine in his album What Am I Doing In New Jersey?. The bit is the driver behind him has his high beams on, and Carlin says that’s great because he just happens to have his copy of this book with […]
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 […]
Tam K. on collecting the old-fashioned way: (I’m not going the internet auction site route, because it always feels to me like the gun collecting equivalent of hunting over a baited field. It’d be like having a computerized database of exactly what old sports cars are in which barns across the country, or having clear […]
So we visited a church garage sale at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton church in Springfield on Saturday. It was bag day, and that’s like catnip to me. I rub my cheeks and roll on the junk you can buy, especially late in the day on bag day. No, this isn’t a Good Book Hunting post, […]
All right, so I read a book on Swedish history, which led to my new taste for lingonberries and then to commenting on Swedish news. When will it end? When will Brian J. cease with this little blog goofery fixation on Sweden? Not yet. So I mentioned I went to the Friends of the Clever […]
You’re not mistaken; the Good Book Hunting posts have dropped off here recently. I only hit three or four book fairs a year these days, since they’re not as prevalent in Springfield as they are in St. Louis, and we’re reaching an epoch where an average garage sale these days doesn’t feature many books, and […]