My grandfather passed away last month. Had I told my grandfather I had a blog, he probably would have told me to get it checked out by a doctor, so this is an interesting forum to write about his passing. I’ve wanted to write something about him since it happened. After my grandmother passed away […]
Archive for the ‘Whatever’ category
Thursday Giggles
I haven’t done this in a while, but here are some great clips of some of my favorite current stand up comedians. Hope you enjoy! John Mulaney [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uD-akXggZA[/youtube] Chelsea Peretti [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehScpMeG_a8[/youtube] Erik Bergstrom [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMwMxq61GRE[/youtube] Kyle Kinane [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6rsp6phb5U[/youtube] Rory Scovel [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms4ND0JPUSc[/youtube] Marina Franklin [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG6FMJJ1kmA[/youtube] Nick Turner [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVQykm92OBo[/youtube]
A little more fiction
The hitter It was the bottom of the ninth, two outs, bases loaded when Eddy stepped to the plate. He couldn’t believe this moment had really come – the perfect moment, the perfect baseball cliché. The game was on the line, heroics were in order. And he was ready – never been readier – to […]
Best things this week
Sorry for the grab-bag format, folks, but it’s late and I have a terrible sunburn from gardening all day. (I know, cry me a river, right? Boo-hoo, suburban academic on summer break!) These are some of the things that have delighted me recently: 1. Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus for the Los Angeles Review of […]
Memorial Day 2012 Mixmas
I know the holiday is still a week away. But this is my agreed-on blog day this month. So, I guess this gives y'all an advance week to figure out your favorite songs before the barbecues start. Fwiw, this a great mix of songs. The point of gathering songs for this mix is to help […]
Thursday playlist: latest online enthusiasms
Oh, this video is really good! (thank you Bryan Waterman for the link–our BW who has a fun tumblr blog now): buying cigars online [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO6y1-erVEw[/youtube] If that wasn't your moment of bliss for the day, and you can stop yourself from replaying it, I recommend following this link to a tumblr page called Shallow Rewards […]
The Story of 420
As today is 4/20, I decided that I either need to write about Adolf Hitler, as today is his birthday, or marijuana. Other than being the number one, all-time most wanted target in time-travel related murders, I don’t know a whole lot about Adolf Hitler. I think I got Mein Kampf out of the library […]
All Together Now
Last night the hubs and I took a brief respite from our ongoing 30-Rock marathon to watch “Commune”, a 2005 documentary about Black Bear Ranch, a commune that was started in the late-60’s in Northern California. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ0OuT2hiuY[/youtube] While the film touches on the political and social upheaval of the time, most of the focus is […]
A process, an end, a beginning
The college search and decision process represents, for some kids, a significant threshold. They begin to move from the present emotion of adolescence to the future rationale of adulthood. They have to consider their own identity in an attempt to find a cultural and academic match. They must take a sobering account of their performance and […]
Thursday playlist: TV and Music we're digging lately
A few of our favorite things: 1.) Adventure Time. It's now in its 3rd season on Cartoon Network. There's a little 7 year old we know who started watching it recently. And suddenly his parents were as eager as he was to catch up on all the old episodes. A lovely 21 year old house […]
