Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
A rough week at work led to a short break for daydreaming toward the end of my shift tonight. Recently, daydreams tend toward thoughts about my mom, who died last month. Tonight’s catalyst was “Manuela,” the name of the woman on the other end of the phone. Enter (brain right) another “Manuela,” this one played [...]
My 10-year-old nephew reports that my 66-year-old dad has announced plans to patent the video game “Tuba Hero.” According to my nephew, what’s truly funny about this pronouncement is that he can’t tell if his grandpa is joking. In other tangentially guitar-hero related news, my 7-year-old niece is working on a re-write of Survivor’s “Eye [...]
While watching the Superbowl, my friend Rebecca and I discovered that what went came out of the TV speakers as went into our ears as
Oh wait. I guess those were two separate stories. Still, that’s pretty cool.
I was angry when Ralston-Purina, focusing their energies on the chocolate chip flavor, stopped production of vanilla Cookie Crisp. I was nine years old. I wrote them a letter. And so began my political activism, and relative indifference toward chocolate.
I’ve never been to Iowa. A couple of Bunnyblinks readers live there, and a few of my Madison friends are Hawkeyes (although they’re the sort of Hawkeyes who don’t generally identify with team mascots). That said, I realize that my never having been to Iowa might not be a big deal to many of you. [...]
wayneandwax.com � Modern Ancient African Music: “Noting, for example, that Baaba Maal’s Firin in Fouta (1994) was received ambivalently by the “world music” market because of its incorporation of funk, reggae, hip-hop, “techno” (don’t know why Monson and Eyre call it that — sounds much more like house to me)” Such comfortably dropped off-the-cuff declarations [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
