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I’m a Loser
I could not figure out today’s Wordle puzzle. And that’s OK. I didn’t share that one to the thread I use for my results because I don’t really need to share my failures. (I have a single Facebook thread for…
Making the Grade … Barely
As many people are wont to do in their mid-40s, I have turned nostalgic. I have always had this streak, but the good times of college have really flooded back recently. A friend recently told me on Facebook that I needed…
Going (Back) to the Go-Go’s
In January 1982, my brother Kevin took me to my first rock concert. Ostensibly. we went to the Cap Centre in Landover, Md., to see The Police, but the opening act made a much greater impression on me. After all,…
ITEOTWAWKI: Pageant Anniversary
I first truly discovered R.E.M. through “Life’s Rich Pageant,” the band’s fourth album. I bought a cassette over Christmas break from college in the summer of 1987, almost a year after it was released. I had heard some of the…
A Little Song, A Little Dance …
Thanks to my friend Heidi, I discovered that today is a very important anniversary. Thirty-five years ago, the Chuckles Bites the Dust episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show aired. If you are not aware, this was perhaps the greatest…
Play the Game Right
I have long maintained that the game the kids today call Beer Pong is not really Beer Pong. To play something called Pong, you need to hit the ball with a paddle, not just toss it. Somehow Beirut (what the…
ITEOTWAWKI: Eating Crow
OK, the last time I did one of these updates, I expressed disappointment that the re-release of “Reckoning” would be paired with a disc from the Dublin rehearsals prior to the Accelerate release. A few people pointed out the fallacy…