Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Quick post today. Heading down to the Boston Aquarium to take my grandson to see the fish and penguins. Wonder if there are any sharks – they are Owen’s favorites. No shark will eat today’s podcast, with Jonathan Richman, Light & Motion, Automatic, Squeeze, Alex Little & the Suspicious Minds, Pretenders, DiVinyls, the Bangles, My…

I’ve been a comics reader for as long as I can remember. I loved looking at the comics as a child and have continued to read them today. They still put out a (classic) Peanuts strip daily. I have the first few volumes of the complete strips from the beginning and still chuckle at Charlie…

Happy 4th of July weekend! What’re you doing for the holiday? We finally have a quiet weekend – had all of our fun last week and weekend, with vacation with my son, daughter, and grandson, a nephew’s wedding, and hosting my brother-in-law and his wife through Tuesday. We need to breathe. The weather, which may…

Just got back from vacation. What a great week. Eighteen-month-olds are fascinating. It was interesting to observe throughout the week. Owen has a great sense of humor and he loves his grandpa. I’m the favorite. Still, it’s funny. He loves saying no to things he doesn’t like, but if you say no to him it’s…

We’re heading out on vacation today. Going to North Conway for a week of fun with my son, his wife, and the grandchild. Will update you on how it went next week. This week’s podcast has a raft of favorites, including Strawbs, Richard & Linda Thompson, John Martyn, Crowded House, Squeeze, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller,…

It’s too nice to be sitting around and writing today. Let’s just enjoy the day (I hope the weather is beautiful everywhere today). So on today’s pod, we mess around with the Call, the Connells, the Fixx, INXS, Jethro Tull, Family, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, Alex Little & the Suspicious Minds, the Get Up…

Continuing with the year 1971, this set is a bunch of songs that were on the Billboard 100 during the year, presented semi-1971 style. I don’t speak in-between or over the songs, but they’re just presented without a thought of any semblance of order. Just like 1971. You’d hear a country song followed by a…

In he before time I was thinking about changes that I was going through as I was getting older. To me it was very gradual – I didn’t really feel any effects of getting older until the cartilage in my left knee went away. Then I started to feel old. I couldn’t run anymore, and…

Starting after the Civil War, Memorial Day was founded to honor soldiers who died serving their country here in the United States. Let us honor these soldiers – remember them at your cookout this weekend. Today’s podcast includes some new music as well as some soul music from the 1970’s, so listen to Paul Weller,…

We’re on dogsitting duty today. The dogs we’re sitting don’t like being alone all day, so we’re going over to comfort them (and feed them). They’re the type of dogs that could not have food sitting around. Both of the dogs we owned could have food sitting in their bowls all day, but these two…