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Turn up your speakers!
There has never been and may never be anyone quite like Freddie Mercury: But Miss Piggy comes close! This post is part of the Blogging A to Z Challenge. Today’s letter is Q. Thanks for stopping by. Please leave a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, music
Tagged Best Song Ever, Blogging A to Z Challenge, Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury, PostADay, Queen, The Muppets
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A Crazy Wednesday Idea
Stephen MacInnes, at Painter’s Progress, has been doing weekly experiments involving art. One of his experiments involved drawing the word “DRAW”, and then leaving it in an encyclopedia or dictionary. I liked this idea and thought that I would play … Continue reading
Posted in Art, criticism, Culture, Imagination
Tagged art, NaBloPoMO, PostADay, Wednesday Idea
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Its got a good beat & you can dance to it
Scene: Dick Clark, any day, the mid-60′s through the mid-70′s. You could have found me watching American Bandstand. I would sit in front of the TV, watching teens dance, observing their actions, studying their clothes, listening to the music, hoping … Continue reading
Posted in criticism, Culture, music, Shakespeare
Tagged American Bandstand, Criticism, music, Theatre
Engaging Conversation
On a whim, while traveling a few weeks ago, I forwarded to my husband a notice about a public conversation at Goose the Market, one of our favorite speciality grocers in Indianapolis. I was in a hurry and didn’t look … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, liquor, Politics
Tagged Chew on This, history, Indiana Humanities Council, Ken Burns, Ken Burns has the neatest job ever!, liquor, Prohibition
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>Local, Organic, Food (Part 1)
>I don’t know about you, but I’m still digesting a hearty, caloric, too-high carbohydrated, Thanksgiving meal. So one would think it would be unlikely that I would again be writing about food today. But, here I am, posting about food … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Culture, Food, NaBloPoMo
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>Olympic Ceremony in Real Time
>Go to http://www.cyclingfans.com and scroll down for the second link to NRK. I think this is in Danish. My info on the language may be wrong, but it doesn’t matter because I can’t understand it. However, there are some things … Continue reading
>live blogging Obama
>Obama isn’t on stage yet. Thousands of people standing in Indianapolis in American Legion Mall — IN THE RAIN. And Stevie Wonder is singing !!!!! AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Updated: I can’t say I saw Senator Obama, but I could hear him! Local … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics
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>Fireworks
>Indianapolis boasts of the largest Children’s Museum in the world. While this is true, I find no value in its size; I dislike self-reported claims of being the biggest, tallest, largest anything, because these terms have nothing to do with … Continue reading
>More on Thomas Paine – Paine and Religion
>No wonder Thomas Paine was controversial. And ignored by those who blindly believe that all of our “founding fathers” were supportive of a “Christian” nation. From Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man Throughout this work, various and numerous as the subjects … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Religion and Spirituality
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>Election Day Reading
>I sat down this evening to read Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, but instead, read Paine’s Rights of Man (1791, 92). Paine’s arguments for the right to choose one’s government, 215 years later, seem self-evident, so obvious as to make one … Continue reading
