What Are You Doing, New Year’s Eve
Nancy Wilson. Hau’oli Makahiki Hou, everybody!
Archive of entries posted on December 2008
Twitter question
How do I get that Twitter badge in the left sidebar to reflect new tweets from other people besides myself? The people I’m following, in other words.
NFL Pro Bowl
This is parochial of me, but I really think the NFL’s decision to move its annual All-Star Game, the Pro Bowl, from Honolulu to Miami in 2010 will prove to be a one-off event. For one thing, the players (and their families) have always been delighted to come to Hawai’i to play the game; it’s …
Where have I been?
How is it I haven’t heard of Seeqpod before? Type a song or artist’s name into the search box at the home page. Seeqpod goes out to the web, finds all matching names, and lists them. Click the one you want and it appears in a “podlist” on the right side of the screen. Click …
A little wake-up music
YouTube amazes me sometimes. Here’s Crosby Stills & Nash’s coming-out party at Woodstock in 1969, singing “Suite Judy Blue Eyes.” A word to the unwary: if you want to get the original CSN album, either avoid the one which includes bonus tracks or don’t listen to the demo track of “Teach Your Children;” keep your …
Israel — Hamas
At the time of the Israeli-Lebanon war (July 2006) I wrote a letter to Israel, conceitedly signing it “The United States.” I closed the letter with this sentence: I am concerned that while you may in fact succeed in destroying some of those terrorists, you may also create a new generation of them by your …
The good news (I guess) is that I signed up for a Twitter feed. The bad news is I can’t get it centered on the left sidebar.
Newfound music
I purchased Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Come Darkness, Come Light after hearing a few tracks (below). That had the happy result of me becoming a new fan of her music. So when I got a $10 gift certificate from Borders for Christmas, I went down there and got a copy of The Essential Mary Chapin Carpenter, …
Bah
It’s been raining off and on for about a week. I don’t envy all y’all who live where it’s been snowing and the white stuff has been accumulating, but for blogging purposes at least you can get pretty pictures out of snow. Rain, not so much. The other night when the power went out we’d …
Blue
Hearing Ronstadt’s version of “River” sent me off to find my vinyl copy of Joni Mitchell’s Blue, the album on which it first appeared. If memory serves, “River” got very little airplay at the time of release (1971); “My Old Man” and “Carey” were the two I remember hearing in regular rotation on the radio. …