Category: Music

  • Five weird habits of highly effective people

    My blogdaughter, Frances, sent me a blog meme that sounds like fun: Yahoo! 360 – Good Bloggin’ West – Five Weird Habits of Highly Effective People… OK, so here are five of my weird habits: When someone’s voice or way of talking sounds funny to me I, almost involuntarily, imitate them under my breath. Sometimes,…

  • Serenity… well, not now, but maybe later

    According to Empire: Movie News, the Serenity movie didn’t do well enough in its theatrical release to justify sequels, but Joss Whedon is still sanguine that he will be able to continue the story, perhaps on TV again, possibly in the miniseries format.

  • Another language peeve

    When did touch base morph into touch base*s*? Is it because few people still follow baseball? In baseball touching base is making an important connection. Touching bases sounds like two people each holding some kind of “base” and touching them together. I can’t picture it.

  • U2 at Jazz Fest 2006

    Ruh roh! Rumor has it that U2 has been booked for Fest. This may be good for turnout but it may also be kind of a nightmare for just hanging out and being mellow.

  • National Novel Editing Month

    “Enough with the Grateful Dead already,” writes so-called Bill. “What happened to Cecilia?” Well, I didn’t get into the 50,000-words-in-November winners circle. (Some people hit that number in the first week! I on the other hand, have a life.) I did, however, hit my personal goal of 30,000 words by Nov 29 and I took…

  • When you go to California….

    A friend on a mailing list, writing to another friend who’s contemplating a move, passed along this wonderful quotation: Someone had mentioned an analogy that had begun to prey on my mind. Going to California, he had said, was like entering a swimming-pool. It was pleasant, you swam a few laps, and before you knew…