Author: Brennick
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I’ve forgoten what I was going to say
I turned 56 this week – overall I don’t feel any different than I did when I was younger. The vagaries of age haven’t caught up to me, except… I’ve become more forgetful. I suppose that it’s due to age. Over the past few years I’ve started to be more forgetful about things – I’ll…
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Speaker of the House
As soon as I heard that the Speaker of the House did not have to be a member of the House (check), not in the majority party (check), and not have to be a “natural born” citizen (check), I decided that I had to become Speaker of the House. I have all 3 of the…
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1965
Today’s podcast looks back at the year 1965. Ah, 1965. The year I turned 6. That was 50 years ago (how old will I be in 8 days?). In 1965 there weren’t many “albums” as such – most songs were made to be released as singles. Remember 45’s – little 7″ discs with a song…
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M Train
Last night I finished M Train by Patti Smith. What a great book. The main focus of the book is a shambling diary of the year 2012, but touches on much more, especially her marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith of the MC5. It’s just a wonderful book full of coffee, TV detectives (USA Network’s The…
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Happiness is a Warm Gun
When I was a kid, I had an impressive array of toy guns. Pistols, rifles, and sub-machine guns. We played war constantly – I was the yellow peril, I played many Germans, and I was a good guy. We literally spent hours and hours with toy guns in our hand. I lived in rural Maine…
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Bring Back That Sunny Day
How appropriate – it’s going to rain all day, with heavy rain predicted (“It’s a Hard Rain that’s gonna fall”). Today’s special podcast looks at weather. We start with a stormy forecast, then see the clouds move in. From there we have a lot of rain before ending with the sun – there’s always the…
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Totally Lunar
Tonight is the big “supermoon” total lunar eclipse. It should be clear skies where I am tonight, so I should be able to see the lunar eclipse without worrying about clouds. It starts at 9:07, becomes totally eclipsed at 10:47 PM. Woo, that’s late for me, not sure if I’ll make the maximum eclipse time.…
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Silly Season
Politics in America is weird. Candidates are running for office far too early. It’s the silly season. The first voting is till 5 months away – the Iowa Caucus is February 1 and the NH Primary is February 9. By then our infatuation with candidates will have changed a couple of times, and I suspect…
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Let’s Talk About Love
I recently finished reading the book Let’s Talk About Love by Carl Wilson, which is a book that examines how we think about music. The album he’s chosen is Let’s Talk About Love by Celine Dion. He spends the book talking about musical taste – bad taste, why people love Celine Dion, why he, as…
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Sunday Morning Coffee
Waiting for my coffee to brew. Getting the coffee ready in the morning is one of my last rituals – I’ve stripped away many of the rituals of my life, but getting out the grinder, pouring the beans in , grinding the beans, getting water into the maker, putting in a filter, pouring the ground…