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Midweek Music Moment: American Woman, The Guess Who

Even though I probably wasn’t aware of the routine yet, Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s On First?” reminds me of buying The Guess Who’s American Woman. I called my best friend on the phone after getting the album and the conversation went something like:

“I got the new album by The Guess Who.”

“Who?”

“The […]

Ongoing intermittency

They’ll be a substantive post tomorrow but things will likely be sparse around here for the immediate future. It’s even possible a few regular weekly posts may not make it. Travel will leave me with only occasional internet access and not a great deal of spare time. And, sadly, it doesn’t look like there’s any […]

Weekend Edition: 5-8

Bulletin Board

I hadn’t heard about this before but it looks like there will be a Reel Dakota Film Festival in Sioux Falls this September. It is, however, the same weekend as the South Dakota Festival of Books.

Blog Headline of the Week

Noah’s Ark found! Again!

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

To Die […]

Friday Follies 2.13

Stupid Legislative Trick of the Week: U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman and a couple other idjits are introducing legislation to allow Americans to be stripped of their citizenship if the State Department (not a court) concludes they are associated with a terrorist organization. I doubt it’s coincidence that these guys — who evidently don’t remember McCarthyism […]

Book Review: Looking for the Summer by Robert W. Norris

Sociologists may debate the question but popular belief certainly holds that baby boomers, for whatever reason, were preoccupied with a search for enlightenment. While much of it was domestic exploration of Eastern culture and religions, so many Americans and Europeans journeyed from Europe through places like Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan on their way to India […]