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AI7 Finals, Week 07: Bring on the Theatricalnessitivityness
Right up front, I must admit I couldn't restrain myself...I had to go for new levels of Dubyaism on the title. I realize I used the same technique with my "Countryficationery" post a while back. But I...
View ArticlePre-AI thoughts (and/or rant…yeah, no ‘or’ about it)
It's Neil Diamond night. Just let that sink in. Wait for it. Almost there. Even now, you're reeling from the shock of it, aren't you? As the great sage Bob Wiley once said, "There are two types of...
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AI7 Finals, Week 08: Twice the Singing, Half the Lucidity
When Ryan announced that the judges would only comment after the second performances, I thought, "This is to make it so Paula doesn't have to struggle to be lucid twice in the same evening." Wow, was I...
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AI7 Finals, Week 09: Rolling the Rock Dice
It's occurred to me this year that, at this stage of the competition, I'm not looking for the singers to be versatile. I'm looking for them to be themselves. So, while it's nice that Syesha could mold...
View ArticleToo Funny Tuesdays: Nerd to your mutha’
Now that I've done twenty Too Funny Tuesdays (actually, I doubled-up on #8), I'm dropping the number. It's annoying to have to look up last weeks' version to find out what number I'm on (and as #8...
View ArticleToo Funny Tuesdays: Something Different
I thought I might do another Danny Kaye post, since I consider him one of the funniest people ever. So I set out to find a video from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, but I found something else....
View ArticleMore Carolers, Little Dorrit, Music Theory, Sixty-seven
Another Monday, more Musings, more Carolers updates. I’ve now been out on two paying gigs with Fireside Carolers, and they both went pretty well. Actually, no song sounded anything like a train...
View ArticleBook Review: What Becky Didn’t Want, by Seth Tower Hurd
Well, if I'm going to praise Jim Al-Khalili for having on of the most enjoyable names in history then I have to give a shout out to Seth Tower Hurd just based on his being named Seth. I mean, what's...
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