I just read a short blurb about Billy Joel’s song “Uptown Girl.” And it said that song was a Number 1 hit for him on the British charts, for five weeks, back in 1983. That started on this day, November 5th. I knew it was popular. And it was even in my playlist for a while, back when I played live music for a … Read the rest…
So, you probably got up today and immediately started to focus on how you could be patient with all the people you were gonna deal with. Right? Yeah, right. Me neither. Is it even possible to be patient with all the knuckleheads? No, I don’t believe it is. At least not completely. And certainly not when you depend on YOU for the ability to … Read the rest…
Exvangelical deconstruction. Now, there’s a term you probably don’t hear every day. I hadn’t heard of it before today. But apparently it’s a “thing” in the ranks of people leaving the Christian “church” these days. And I put quotations around “church” for a reason. Because exvangelical deconstruction is a self-indulgent activity. No surprise there, right? Selfishness was the original sin. And it’s still at … Read the rest…
If you regularly listen to or watch the morning news, it can give you the impression there’s no such thing as lasting hope. And it can give you the impression that the only way to “beat ’em” is to “join ’em.” So skip the morning news. At least skip all the opinion stuff. All that point, counterpoint, and other synthetic, so-called “news.” Because, when … Read the rest…
Back in 1974 I paid for (and enjoyed, immensely) an America holiday. Because it was an excursion into the best parts of musical imagination. And…what? You think I misspelled it? Oh, I see. You think it should have been American with the n at the end. Yeah, I get it. But no. I got it right. America Holiday. But maybe I should clear up … Read the rest…
I remember, learning about Halloween for the first time, as a little kid. And that’s back when we went “trick or treating” for fun and candy. My first few Halloween costumes were your basic innocent kid types. Casper the friendly ghost. Cowboy. Pirate. You get the picture. And I think there’s still a lot of the innocent kid stuff out there. But the vast … Read the rest…
Just 5 days ago, I alluded to this event that took place 83 years ago today. That’s when Orson Welles did a radio broadcast based on the H.G. Wells (no relation and not even spelled the same way) book, War of the Worlds. The War of the Worlds broadcast was a special Halloween show. And, by many accounts, there were millions of people listening. … Read the rest…