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Monday, February 23, 2026

Snowpocalypse Now: Special "Cheap Whores on Parade (I Keed -- I Keed!!!)" Edition

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[Greetings from depressingly snowbound NYC, everybody! More to the point, I originally posted this back in 2009(!), a time that in most rega...
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Friday, February 20, 2026

La Fin de La Semaine Essay Question: Special "In Matters of Opinion, One's Opponent is Always an Idiot" Edition

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FYI -- I believe the title quote comes from George Bernard Shaw , who if he'd been born a century or so later would probably have toiled...
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Thursday, February 19, 2026

An Early Clue to the New Direction

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From 1963, and one of those fabulous local teen rock TV shows somewhere, please enjoy extremely blonde nice Jewish girl Diane Renay and her...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Wednesday's Cartoon Chuckles and Photo Funnies

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Love that last one particularly, although the youngsters in the photo probably have too many teeth. 😎
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Those Fabulous Nineties

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Attentive readers will recall that last week I sung the praises of a 2025 BBC/Britbox comedy/drama called Riot Women . Short version of the ...
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Monday, February 16, 2026

Your Monday Moment of Words Fail Me

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And speaking as we were over the weekend of Beatles tributes, I stumbled across this one by accident the other day, and...well, behold it in...
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Friday, February 13, 2026

La Fin de La Semaine Essay Question: Special "Beatles Selfies" Edition

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Yeah, yeah, it's gimmicky. But it's also terrific. That's the work of a British musical comedian/impressionist named Stevie...
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Thursday, February 12, 2026

Songs I'd Forgotten Existed (Let Alone Loved): Special "If I Was a Carpenter and You Were a....Oh, Wait!!!" Edition

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And speaking as were yestrday about folk-rocker/country star Mary Chapin Carpenter , from 1990 please enjoy her powerful and insinuating ...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Be Still My Beating Cornea

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From 1993, recorded live in Glasgow, please enjoy Mary Chapin Carpenter and a nicely semi-countrified version of The Records ' jangle-p...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Tuesday's Music-Themed Photo Funnies

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That last one isn't music-themed per se, of course. But it is how I wanna be remembered.
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