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Doing the iPod shuffle

As I’ve indicated before, because my musical formative years were when vinyl LPs were the mainstay, I believe musicians put songs on an album in a particular order for a reason. As a result, I rarely use the shuffle feature on my iPod. But last month my kids convinced me it was at least worth […]

Weekend Edition: 2-14

An abbreviated edition this three-day weekend, so I’m kicking it off with a:

Valentine’s Day Pitch

Although perhaps out of the ordinary, here’s one of the things I did for Valentine’s Day: made a contribution in memory of my dad, a World War II infantry lieutenant, to Honor Flight South Dakota. It’s a new organization […]

Book Review: The Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu

Many people believe the U.S. is in a mess. But the history David Hajdu recounts in his latest book might provide a handy scapegoat: comic books. Stop and think about it. For nearly two decades, the men in the Oval Office — and even longer for Congress — have been of the generation that grew […]

Booking Through Thursday: Author Blogs

Do you read any author’s blogs? If so, are you looking for information on their next project? On the author personally? Something else?

I currently subscribe to the blogs of four authors in my RSS reader, three of them science fiction writers. While it is intriguing to hear what the authors are working on, […]

Midweek Music Moment: Before the Flood, Bob Dylan and The Band

He hadn’t toured since the spring of 1966. And when he did it was with The Hawks, who would become The Band. So when Bob Dylan and The Band joined forces for a short North American tour in January and February 1974, it was big news. More than 650,000 tickets were sold for the 40 […]