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But That’s Just An Old Fantasy

February 14, 2012

Whitney Houston was the first cassette tape my uncle bought along with a brand new player back in 1985. And while listening to “Saving All My Love” at the age of 10 was when I first really understood unrequited love and loss. This isn’t about a post about memorializing celebrities, burnouts and addicts. It isn’t [...]

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A Countertop of Kilkenny Marble

January 26, 2012
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Cari The Geologist And Certified U2 Freak is sure to love this post. Volcanoclast hosts this month’s Accretionary Wedge on countertop geology. Have you seen a great countertop out there?  Sure, everyone says it’s “granite”, but you know better.  Take a picture, post it on your own blog or send it to me and I’ll [...]

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It’s Carnival Time!

January 6, 2011

Throw your sparkles into the air! Purple, green and gold like you just don’t care! Tweet

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Happy Halloween!

October 29, 2010

Never go a single Halloween without costuming. Here’s some musical and visual inspiration. Have a ghoul of a weekend! Finicky 8Tracks embed is finicky. If it doesn’t work here, try listening to it from the source. Tweet

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Teach Me How To Bucky

October 26, 2010

On nice, sunny days during high school and college at the University of Illinois, a bunch of us would take our fat slice of Garcia’s Pizza In A Pan and walk on over to the Quad to listen to Preacher Dan for lunchtime entertainment. I’d lazily peel off the extra pepperoni to munch on while [...]

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Soundtrack For Earth Science Week

October 14, 2010

For your listening pleasure, a compilation named A Hardness Of 10. Today is also Women In The Geosciences day, so most of the songs are performed by women. What two songs would you suggest to make this an appropriate 10-track mix? Tweet

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Friday Morning Bagel & Music

September 10, 2010

Bagel for me. Neil Finn & Company for you. Tweet

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Herman Leonard, 1923-2010

August 16, 2010

nola.com: Herman Leonard, a photographer who created some of the most famous images of such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and others, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. Mr. Leonard, 87, lived in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina struck and destroyed much of his collection. He was born and raised [...]

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Rude Girl

July 16, 2010

The magical power of the YouTubes gives you my new hero: Rani Taj. The “first Kashmiri woman dholi in the UK” and senior player with the DholBlasters. (Thanks, Anil!) I’m not a huge fan of Rihanna’s Rude Boy but think I can bhangra to this version all day. Girlfriend brings it at the 1:55 mark and [...]

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Laurie Anderson’s “Homeland”

July 1, 2010

Must. To. Get. D loves her music, if you can pigeonhole her creations of multimedia wonderment into Music. I see why: In the atmospheric “Only an Expert,” Anderson reflects on the culture of experts in America. She says she finds it irritating that people are infantilized by specialists who try to answer for them. “I [...]

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