Category: play
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beer me
My Darling B and I went to the Isthmus Beer and Cheese Fest yesterday afternoon. We enjoyed ourselves just fine, but the event seemed to both of us to lean a lot more heavily toward the beer and a lot less toward the cheese than it had in years past. Not that more beer is… Read.
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bon voyage
It took something like two and a half hours to get from the Hill Farms office building back to Our Humble O’Bode this evening, owing to the inch or so of snow on the ground. I have never been so embarrassed to be a cheesehead. One inch of snow and traffic all over Madison is… Read.
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gone too far
As we were coming home from work the other day, the 70s pop song “I’d Really Like to See You Tonight” by England Dan & John Ford Coley started to play on the radio. We were already talking back to the radio, so I took a shot at this song, saying something like, “What ever… Read.
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fast forward
One of my favorite ways to wind down at the end of the day is to watch YouTube videos of Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert’s The Tonight Show, and Seth Meyers’s The Late Show. All the shows post highlights of the previous night’s show the next day, so I can catch up on… Read.
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pain
Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, an understanding, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something. — James Jones, From Here To Eternity Read.
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advice
Few people in the history of written advice have actually been qualified to give it. There’s no Ph.D. program or certification course or license for the role. Which means that nobody is ineligible to give advice, either. … Take Ann Landers and Dear Abby. Those columns were written by a pair of twins whose parents… Read.
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Alan Bean
Fare thee well, Alan Bean, and thank you. It has been, and continues to be, a heartbreak to lose people who have dared to do great things. With Alan Bean’s passing, there are just four living people who have walked on the moon: Dave Scott & Jim Irwin, Apollo 15: July 30 to August 2,… Read.
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Another Song Bites The Dust
Every Step You Take was released thirty-five years ago today and almost instantly pulled in a shit-ton of money for The Police. It was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks, the UK Singles Chart for four weeks, and the Billboard Top Tracks chart for nine weeks. It won a… Read.
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outdoor hugging
Outdoor hugging starts today! (reference to the JoCo song First Of May, the clean version, in which he replaces the word “fuck” with the word “hug” and inserts ad-libs to explain lines such as, “taking each other’s pants off – becauseit’shotoutside”. He said he made the change when his own kids grew old enough to… Read.
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Solaris (Tartovsky)
For years, I’ve wanted to see the science fiction film “Solaris” by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky because I’ve heard so many good things about it and because I love the book it’s based on, a sci-fi classic by Stanislaw Lem. Last night I finally got the chance, thanks to Cinematheque, a program at the… Read.
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