Show Your Paintings at the United Nations

The theme for today’s post is: miscellany.
On Thursday, I left the house in a rush so I kind of swept a pair of earrings into my bag, figuring I’d put them on at work.  Around noon I finally remembered to.  I almost always wear earrings, but not when I’m sleeping.  Anyway, I put in my [...]

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Songs for Polar Bears

There is this thing in the city of Chicago–and I’m sure in other cities of snowy climes–where certain street are designated as snow routes.  So if it snows a certain amount, you can’t park on them, lest you get towed. My understanding is that this is for the snow plows to get through and/or emergency [...]

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All Songs Are One Song and That Song is Don’t Forget

ABC’s of music meme.  Pretty self-explanatory, really.
Some favorite artists, alphabetically. And some I just had to choose.  I’ll let you decide which those are
Aerosmith
Beatles
Clash
Death Cab for Cutie
Ella Fitzgerald
Foo Fighters
G. Love and Special Sauce
Hendrix
Indigo Girls
Josh Ritter
Kinks
Local H
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
Nirvana
Ok Go!
Pretenders
Queen
Radiohead
Snow Patrol
Talking Heads
U2
Van Morrison
White Stripes
X….  Yeah I got nothing here.
Yeah Yeah [...]

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Who Are You?

When I was in college, my roommate was a psychology major.  That means I got experimented on a lot.  Nothing dangerous mind you.  We aren’t talking Baby Albert or anything like that.  We’re talking the occassional test.  I’m not sure I was a good subject.  This is how my mind works.  As I’m taking the [...]

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Nine

Ok, who watched 90210 last night?  Come on, admit it.  You did.
I did.  I was stangely drawn into before I left to go have dinner at Best Friend’s.  So much so that I had to watch it when I got home, despite my drooping eyelids and pounding head.
My verdict: Not as good as the original, [...]

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I Really Love Your Hairdo Yeah I’m Glad You Like Mine Too; See We’re Looking Pretty Cool

Last week as Best Friend, her boyfriend and I headed home from celebrating Best Friend’s last day of work (she is off to grad school for three years), her sister sent her a text. Best Friend’s sister is a junior in college. The text congratulated her and ended with a command to “go get krunked.” [...]

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Looking On She Sings the Songs, the Words She Knows, the Tune She Hums

Sometimes, you just stumble on a video that brings it all back. A great scene from a great movie; it made me smile on a tough morning.
Update: It always makes me smile, and my day improved a lot come late morning.

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I Found It Hard, It’s Hard to Find. Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind

I love me some Entertainment Weekly.  I mean, it’s almost a sickness.  Written words about pop culture.  Two of my favorite things combined.  EW recently celebrated its 1000th issue by celebrating the “new classics” naming the best movies, TV shows, music and books for the past 25 years.  Since I’m a bit overdue for a post [...]

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