Sunday School
We’re talking – well, mostly the wife is talking while I play solitaire so my mind won’t wander – and the subject of Normal Borlaug came up. I had forgotten Borlaug’s birthday was on March 25th. Back...
View ArticleTemptation Eyes
Or: One of My Stranger Misheard Lyrics. When The Grass Roots came out with Temptation Eyes in 1970, I just loved it. It’s so catchy. It never gained any special association with an individual. It was...
View ArticleCognitive Dissonance Or Mind Goes First
I spent some time helping my brother with tax-related stuff and asked him about the time we went to The Guess Who. When I tried to determine when I went to each concert, I was absolutely convinced it...
View ArticleWhat to Say?
I’m at a loss for what to post without it being too much. Since I want to go to bed ASAP, earlier than normal so I’m not sleepy all day tomorrow, there’s not much time. I’ve been meaning to write...
View ArticlePlease Come To Boston
Nope, this isn’t about the song of the same name, pleasing as it may be. That just seemed like the thing to use as a catchy title for a city versus country post inspired by going to Boston. Tomorrow I...
View ArticleWatch The Orville?
Every Friday after a new episode airs Thursday night while I’m sleeping, I watch The Orville on the web. This is the first new episode to air since Disney took ownership. Unless it’s some crazy...
View ArticleSomething About You
So I’m back with the series of “favorite song by an artist” posts, prompted by a Boston song having played on my playlist and reminding me that they were one of the groups I’d thought of initially. In...
View ArticleHappy First of May
May first is celebrated by fans of Melody due to the degree to which the Bee Gees song First of May inspired the story told in the film, and due to its inclusion in the film as the theme of Daniel and...
View ArticleTimeline Elasticity
If any of you follow all my babbling here, you know I think about alternate history scenarios, and alternate timelines to ours based on points where events large or small departed. One of my fiction...
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Happy Birthday Tracy Hyde
Tracy Constance Margaret Hyde is sixty years old today. That means it was 49 years ago that she turned 11 and celebrated on the set of the movie that made her famous, early in the shooting. Obviously I...
View ArticleBushcraft
I added bushcraft as a category because it’s one of my interests, but I haven’t posted about it any more than I’ve practiced it. I end up being more armchair and wishful thinking than practitioner. I...
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To Love Somebody Poster
This is an interesting find. It’s a poster for Melody where it was marketed under its alternate alternate name of To Love Somebody, as opposed to the alternate name of SWALK (Sealed With a Loving...
View ArticleNo Little Indians
My mother got an Ancestry DNA test for Christmas and never activated it and sent it in. A few weeks ago, I activated it for her and helped her with getting the sample sent in. Overnight the results...
View ArticleRemembering D-Day
Well, not remembering, since it was 17 years before history began for me personally. However, it is on my mind. It is astonishing, what a feat the whole thing was, and what was accomplished. It’s an...
View ArticleReally… NO Little Indians
I got my Ancestry DNA results. My mother’s shows no American, seemingly eliminating the Wampanoag ancestor we know is there. Mine shows no American, seemingly eliminating the possibility of a not...
View ArticleAnd None On The Wife’s Side
If the eldest’s DNA results are any indication. We had no American come back on my mother’s, even though we “know” there’s Wampanoag. We had none come back on mine, seemingly ruling out that as an...
View ArticleMuskrat Vengeance
Season 6, Episode 2 of Alone. This will be spoilers, probably, even if I am vague. The title of the episode is “Tainted,” which sets it up that something associated with that will play a role. Clever...
View ArticleYesterday Is Wonderful
I went to see Yesterday, well, yesterday (barely) and loved it. I am, of course, a sucker for romantic comedies. That’s what Yesterday is, at heart. I don’t want to give anything away, so I will only...
View ArticleFifty Years
I’ve been quiet here, even thinking about taking it down. I’ve moved on from my obsession with the film Melody that dominated this place for a while. However, it’s still a good movie, albeit imperfect...
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