this is the subtitle in the RSS feed. I don't know where it ends up. 🐶
(Briefly free) Apple Music alerting me to new music by artists it thinks I like - The Dream Academy (it is not that The Dream Academy) and The Sun Days (it is not the Sundays.) The Sun Days isn't bad. Pretty standard indiepop. That's not Harriet though. Alas. This namespace problem - music lawyers used to handle it pretty ruthlessly. Their disappearance - A funny knock-on effect of Jobs' 99-cent…
CB's "Joey" is a sad damn song for a Publix at rush hour. #shoppop
I'm (finally) reading Where Wizards Stay Up Late , and just stumbled across this phrase: "[it] spread like hula hoops." I get the context -- I've seen Hudsucker Proxy . "Y'know.... for kids!" ...but it seems like such a strange simile. No hits on a couple of lesser search engines so I reluctantly plugged it into the goog. Four hits, all from this book. Hm.
The job I had starting in ~2013 - there are a handful of albums I devoured at that desk, hundreds of plays over and over. When I left in Sept of '15 with a sort of non-combat politics-PTSD, I couldn't listen to them anymore. I just revisited one of them tonight. I don't even recognize half the songs. The other half are... fine. Good rock songs; that guy has a great voice. Still weird to me that…
Watching a cute dog video and the creator makes a "one paw only" joke and I realize I never made B watch Hunt for Red October . aargh
Off to work, grabbed my keys but HEY where's my badge? I need to clip it on my belt and swipe it to get in to the bldg. SMS my paralegal. She pokes around my office. "Nope. You went to the store after work right?" Shirt. Yeah. Maybe it's on the ground in the parking lot still. Drive up to the grocery store, lot empty. No badge kicking around the lot. I'm already here, might as well go in and ask.…
My MIL is experiencing an emergency major health crisis, my Mom's partner had another major heart surgery today, and my brother's Brooklyn apartment ceiling just collapsed from (I gather from the photo) a catastrophic plumbing issue above. Big day.
SEQUEL IDEA: Paul Blart, Pool Cop.
Amazing Injection: Listening to #TheRestIsEntertainment hosts on Hollywood's big pretrial settlement of the era, then getting a Mint Mobile ad squirted in at the end.
Listening to last week's Omnibus , about doorbells - they ultimately talk quite a bit about encyclopedias, and John's parents getting the "childrens' encyclopedia" as a bonus with their purchase, and I suddenly flash: "If I did an Omnibus, it would be about National Geographic's Our Universe ." And then they mention it themselves, two sentences later. Phew, now I don't have to be on. 🤣