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Saturday 9: Moody Blue
Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. 1) This song was recorded in the special studio Elvis had built in the Jungle Room of Graceland. During the pandemic, have you made like Elvis and worked from home? I was already working from home before it started, so yeah, that’s how it’s been! 2) Elvis sings that […]
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Friday 5: Combo
What do you have mixed feelings about? I’m not sure. Part of me wants to say Biden, but part of me feels like my opinion is actually more nuanced than that and that while I think we need to be doing much, much more if we’re serious about dealing with coronavirus, a lot of that […]
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2022
2022 could very much be a big, transitional year for us–in the spring, Paul finishes his MBA and reenters the workforce, and depending on where he lands, it could mean a move is in the cards for us. Not a major one, mind you. I’d like to stay within an hour of our parents, and […]
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2021
I say it every year–I know people hate New Year’s and can be really cynical about both the new year and resolutions, but I love it. It’s an automatic fresh start, and with a crazy couple of years both personally and with the world at large, it’s interesting to look back at the things I […]
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Saturday 9: The Promise of a New Day
Unfamiliar with this week’s tune? Hear it here. Welcome to the first Saturday 9 of 2022. 1) In this song, Paula Abdul celebrates the promise of a new day. Here at Saturday 9, we’re celebrating the promise of a new year. What do you hope 2022 will bring? Just…better everything. We’re two years into the COVID […]
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Friday 5: We learned more from a three-minute record, baby
Who needs you? My son. He’s coming up on 16 months old, so he relies on me and my husband for basically everything. Who runs to you? Our cat Robin. I joke that she forces me to pay attention to her because I don’t pay attention to her–the joke being, obviously, that when a cat is shoving […]
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It is with very little consideration and a not-so-heavy heart that I announce the semi-retirement of this blog. Although I will say that the more I do think about it, the happier I am with the decision. Over the weekend, I created and launched my personal website, after months of intending to but never really […]
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Saturday 9: The Curly Shuffle
Unfamiliar with this song? Hear it here. 1) This song is a valentine to The Three Stooges. Are you a fan? No, it was never really my kind of humor. 2) It was released to coincide with the Three Stooges getting a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame. That’s the Hollywood in California. There are […]
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Saturday 9: Purple People Eater (1958)
Unfamiliar with this song? Hear it here. 1) When actor Sheb Wooley brought this song to MGM Records, they initially rejected it, saying it just wasn’t the kind of thing they wanted to be associated with. Then executives discovered how popular the audition recording was with the 20-somethings in the office. MGM released it after all […]
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Friday 5: Touched By Your Presents, Dear
For what ability do you seem to have a natural gift? Writing has always come easy. What’s pretty good about the present moment? The baby is asleep and I’m not far behind–unless the fireworks being set off nearby mess that up for all of us. What nearby, everyday object would be a good symbolic bequest […]
Little Janelle 