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Music Monday – “All by myself/Don’t want to be, all by myself anymore/All by myself/Don’t want to live, all by myself anymore”

“All By Myself” – Eric Carmen

Posted 30 March 2020 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The First Celebrity COVID Death?

I would never have guessed that Joe Diffie would be the first celebrity COVID death (well, if a tier B 1990’s country singer counts as a celebrity but I liked quite a few of his songs back in the day so why not?) And if this helps even one Red Stater stay home, his death […]

Posted 29 March 2020 § MemoryLane § News § PopCulture § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “And the saddest thing would be/Is if you up and said to me/That you’re tired of running scared/And you really don’t care/About the ice age, baby”

I’m suddenly very interested in end-of-the-world songs for some reason… “Ice Age” – Hawksley Workman

Posted 23 March 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

My Review of Crown Paradise Club Cancun

We just returned from a week at the Crown Paradise Club Cancun so I wanted to write a review of our resort while the memories are still fresh. HOW WE ENDED UP CHOOSING THE CROWN PARADISE CANCUN IN THE FIRST PLACE Having bought a house in the late fall, our streak of visiting an all-inclusive […]

Posted 10 March 2020 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “From the last survivors of those terms/To the bona fide embodiment/Of an endless emergency without end”

“Emergency” – Tragically Hip

Posted 09 March 2020 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – “I can almost smell the perfumed nights/And see the starry sky/I wish you comin’ with me baby/’Cause right before my eye”

Isn’t the Internet amazing? I heard this song on my random “Flow” playlist the other day.  It’s a song from 1977 by an obscure New Zealand band that I’d never heard before but it felt fitting even though we’re going to Mexico instead of Cuba, leaving in February instead of April, but hoping for sun […]

Posted 17 February 2020 § MusicMonday § Randomness § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

“Losing My Religion” – The Story Behind the Song

A bit more about the song I featured in yesterday’s “Music Monday” post…

Posted 28 January 2020 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “Every whisper/Of every waking hour I’m/Choosing my confessions”

Recommended by a patron at my branch… “Losing My Religion” – Lacuna Coil

Posted 27 January 2020 § Library § MusicMonday § Randomness § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

[Spoilers] The Entire Emperor Palpatine Story

The entire Star Wars universe can be pretty confusing, especially when there are years if not decades between films. Seeing the arc of a single character through the whole series does a good job of explaining different moments and motivations…  

Posted 14 January 2020 § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – “My family left Honduras when they killed the Sandinistas/We followed a coyote through the dust of Mexico/Every one of them except for me survived/And I am still alive”

There are very few songs that can make the hair on my arms stand on end. This song, a reworking of an older song I loved growing up. But instead of focusing on men dying doing manly things as in the original, the update is about women dying in service of larger social issues. Incredibly […]

Posted 06 January 2020 § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § News § Politics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,