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We made it. It’s 2021 and the worst is over (we hope). Sure, the pandemic’s still cresting, we still have our old President (before we get a new old President), too many people still aren’t working, and it’s winter in our hemisphere. Still, not 2020. I’m going to remain hopeful that 2021 will end up … Continue reading "A New Hope"

How was everyone’s Christmas? It was very strange for us – didn’t feel much like Christmas (the rain washing away most of the snow didn’t help. We tried to get Chinese food for Christmas Eve, but the best place in town was way back-ordered. We went to another (disappointing ) Chines restaurant, and was thus … Continue reading "Zoom"

Hi, this is the second set of songs I’ve put together that came out in 2020 (first came out on November 25). I don’t usually have a “best of’ list for the year – my likes shift from day-to-day, and I think that there’s recency bias (“I just heard this album, – it’s now number … Continue reading "More 2020 songs"

It’s Christmas week, but it doesn’t really feel like Christmas. Sure, we got nailed with snow, there is Christmas music everywhere, and some people have gone nuts decorating for Christmas, but for me, the Spirit of Christmas hasn’t come (I don’t think that I’ll be visited by three Christmas spirits – stow it, Jacob Marley). … Continue reading "And so, This is Christmas"

It’s been a year, hasn’t it? on the one hand, there’s a global pandemic and a loosening of the fabric of Democracy in America; on the other hand…many of us are still alive. Doesn’t seem fair. That’s it today. Let’s be hopeful for the future – there’s a possible solution to the pandemic on the … Continue reading "Let’s Just End This Year"

Nor’Easter? We were supposed to get a ton of snow yesterday but ended up with an annoying amount of snow. For those of you who live in climes that do not have snow, let me explain: an annoying amount is enough snow that needs to be shoveled but not enough that it’s worth taking out … Continue reading "An Annoying Amount of Snow"

We’re almost there. Just December to get through. Did anyone predict that 2020 would be so long and drawn out? For me, May was the longest month of the year. It was then that we knew that COVID-19 was going to affect us long-term and wouldn’t just go away when the weather got warm. Seemed … Continue reading "December?"

On this Thanksgiving week, Sly Stone says: Oh, Sunday morning, I forgot my prayerI should have been happy, I still be thereSomething could have come and taken me awayBut the mainman felt Sly should be here another day That’s why I got to be thankful, yeah, yeahI gotta be thoughtfulHey, hey, hey, oh, thankful, thank … Continue reading "Thanksgiving"

We raked leaves in October. The ground was pretty bare afterward. This weekend we’re raking leaves. The ground is full of leaves – oak leaves. Why do oak trees hold their leaves after the maple and other trees have all lost theirs? Just to make us rake leaves multiple times? I’m not a big acorn … Continue reading "Pod340"

I got nothing – what do you have? Today’s podcast focuses on nothing, with lots of something great artists, like Van Morrison, Small Faces, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, the Alley Cats, Roky Erickson, Guided by Voices, Pavement, Tommy Keene, Dum Dum Girls, the Heavy, the Specials, the Del Fuegos, the Flirtations, Sade, and Sinead O’Connor. … Continue reading "Nothing"