Month: January 2021

  • Snow

    A real snowstorm tomorrow night? Is it supposed to be winter around here? We finally had a cold snap this week – the first of the season. Maybe we’re just having a late winter this year. We’ve had years of huge snowfalls in March – maybe 2021 will be that way. Or maybe we’ll only…

  • Genius

    The word genius is thrown around pretty easily these days, but I get to prove that I’m a genius on a daily basis. I play a game in the New York Times called Spelling Bee, where you make words out of the seven letters they give you and you have to make words with them.…

  • Dreams

    “A candy-colored clown they call the sandman.” My favorite scene from Blue Velvet is when Dean Stockwell lip-syncs Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams.” In today’s podcast, I am trying to capture that style in this dream-laden song cycle. Listen up and don’t snooze while listening to Roy Orbison, Little Feat, Chris Isaak, Otis Redding, Dave &…

  • Nothing

    Another quiet week here. Hunkering down and patiently waiting for the vaccine, which is at least two months away for us. Then we can start feeling a little safer. Need to get to critical mass, which won’t be until summertime at least. To wait, there’s music. Sharing some with you this week includes artists like…

  • A Peaceful and Orderly Transition

    Gee, I love slow news weeks, don’t you? It gives one an ability to focus on oneself rather than what is happening in the world at large, and how those things might affect you. What’s that? No, I haven’t really been paying attention to the news – it’s one of my New Year’s resolutions. I…

  • A New Hope

    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…