I needed to brush up on what the rules and etiquette were during Creole / Jazz funerals as well as All Saints Day. You’d think I’d had learned them already, having a BA in Religion. But, sadly, the education behind my BA in Religion wasn’t allowed to cross the street and had to come home […]
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“My Whole World Ended.” David Ruffin’s First Solo Album.
“My Whole World Ended,” is the first solo album David Ruffin performed after he got fired from left The Temps. The album as a whole is one of those you can play over and over again, especially the back-half of the album, which sounds like the classic “B-sides” back side that’s stripped down (and, therefore, […]
Cole Porter. Primer page of facts.
“Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose.” Cole Porter cranked out a lot of content in his time. Hell, in any time I thought Søren Kierkegaard cranked out a lot of content without the use of a word processor of any kind in his short time. Cole […]
The Song at the end of “The Big Short” is “When the Levee Breaks,” by Led Zeppelin.
The song that plays at the end of the 2015 movie The Big Short, is none other than Led Zeppelin’s iconic reworking of the anthem “When the Levee Breaks”. It’s the powerful, foreboding 7-minute “coda” to ZOSO, what fellow Zep fans call the otherwise untitled 4th album Led Zeppelin IV. “Reworking?” They covered that? It […]
Sausalito, California. Facts relevant to me, so far.
Sausalito, California first caught my attention while I was researching the back story to Otis Redding’s, “(Sittin’ on the) Dock of the Bay”. I was curious about what led him to write it and if he had a deep relationship with the city. The research was a little disappointing. I was left with three tourist […]
“She turned me on to Back Porch Pickers, Jackson Pollock, and gin”
Growing up, I wouldn’t have heard this song. I would have turned my nose up and the volume down. I lived on a US 30 border town, drawn south by my state and pulled north by my city. I tended to avoid southernism. Why would you do such a thing? Because when the best friends […]
Digital Marketing and Creative Writing on the same site? “That’s like hypnotizing chickens.”
There are seldom things more painful than watching things you’ve written on go to waste. That said, if I’m lucky, I’ll have a few of those sitting around a Half Price Books store waiting for some next-gen culture-experimenter to give one of my creations a ride. At least in those cases, they’ll have history to […]
Historical precedence for House of Cards Season 4’s most shocking moments. At least, as many as I found during the initial bingewatch.
At this point, there are two types of people: Those who have seen House of Cards Season 4, and those who haven’t. For those who seen it, that leaves two choices: “Don’t spoil me. I’ll click the “+” in the upper right hand side of the page and read something at random.” : Okay. Happy […]
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead 2015/12/12 show at Fox Theatre in Oakland…quick thoughts and facts
Set list for Joe Russo’s Almost Dead 2015/12/12 show at the Fox Theatre in Oakland. Sources: Experience, Lahti’s texting to his lady friend, and setlist.fm – who will, over time, hopefully have YouTube cuts from the actual concert. For now, they have the songs from other sets. Still worth listening to. Oh, and being there. […]
MyFitnessPal Take 2. Day 208.
I didn’t want to do the 30-60-90 day #MyFitnessPal updates so much as only update when it was important. And from reading the last few entries of the Facebook support group I’m on, it was time. So, here’s where I am, 208 days after I began, again. So, where to begin, again. Again. Summer: I […]