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Sometimes I wonder why I started this blog. Despite the success I recently enjoyed with NaBloPoMo, I still have difficulty coming up with things to post. Even the Music Monday posts, which I enjoy immensely, are a chore to work on half the time. Parenting? Supposedly the “focus” of this blog, right? There are only…
You may wonder why I split up my look at Siouxsie And The Banshees into two parts. You may wonder why there are two parts at all considering the first part was a complete story. Thing is, I have gotten to like and appreciate the band more as time goes on. I’m not under the…
It’s been a couple of weeks, I know, but I haven’t taken that many pictures. We are all so busy, and then again, there’s nothing really to report. It’s all the hecticness of life with a gajillion kids. Earlier this month Ciaran had a Cub Scout meeting. There he worked on creating a scrapbook, one…
Does anybody else remember “Friday Night Videos”? This was a program that aired on NBC Friday nights after “The Tonight Show” a few years before “Late Night With David Letterman” took over that programming slot that night. Debuting in 1983, NBC was looking to capitalize on the popularity of music videos – and produce a cheap late…
I had been to concerts before. Most of my live music had come from festivals such as the Bite Of Seattle or Bumbershoot, but I was taken to a Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem concert in my youth and I did get to see the Beach Boys perform after a Mariners game (but that is…
Two men walk into a bar. The third man ducks. What is the last thing to go through a fly’s mind as it hits the windshield? It’s ass. This last one is sort of paraphrased. I heard it from an Irish comedian, Dave Allen on his television series “Dave Allen At Large” – it was…
After the lackluster reception to 1987’s Never Let Me Down, David Bowie considered giving up music for a while. The album didn’t sell as well as expected, and the tour suffered from technical problems and lackluster sales, partly because he was simply “going through the motions” after the blockbuster success of Let’s Dance and to…
Xavier has begun to start playing video games. You can question my parenting decisions all you want, I do, but until you try parenting a large group of kids that aren’t the same age at least hold of on the harsher of judgements. He only plays LEGO Marvel and The LEGO Movie, and only for…
It’s a new year. I still have some old pictures. It’s not all older stuff this week though. Here are the shots from Christmas that turned out. Yes, that is a shot of Kyle. He came over on Christmas Eve and spent the night. Ciaran was “Santa’s helper” this year, assisting in the distribution of…
I got an advertisement in the mail the other day for a personalized item of jewelry to give to my special valentine. Now I’m sure whoever was in charge used some sort of automated search algorithm to match my name with a female’s. Unfortunately this was more along the lines of “Red Dwarf” in regards…