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The Washington State Fair is known for being a large event. Part of this is the main stage and the musical acts that perform there. Earlier it was announced Nickelback would kick off the main stage with Jason Aldean closing things out. Now more acts are announced. And some rodeo. With more announcements to come. Perhaps…
It took a few songs to figure it out. Something was off. The problem wasn’t consistent, but it kept popping up. Not having heard the self-titled debut album by Lou Reed in, like, well, ever, I was certainly eager to put this one in my player and give it a listen. I had heard several…
No, I’m not taking a break from blogging. Instead I am referring to the inconsistencies with breaks in the school calendar. Let’s take this weekend for example. President’s Day, or Presidents Day, or perhaps Presidents’ Day – choose your preference because I can’t find an official grammatical presentation for the holiday. On the school calendar…
When some strange occurrences start happening throughout the country and even the world, the Justice League doesn’t know what to do. People are seeing demons instead of their family members for example. Batman gets the message to find John Constantine, contacts Zatana, and a group of heroes (or anti-heroes) connected to the supernatural are gathered….
I saw Lou Reed perform in 2002 at the Bumbershoot festival. He was getting ready to release The Raven, an album consisting of material inspired by or with lyrics taken from the works of Edgar Alan Poe. There were some of the classic songs of course, but he was certainly eager to showcase the poetry…
“What do you mean you haven’t seen Pinocchio?” I assumed with the plethora of streaming options as well as our physical disc collection the kids have all seen this Walt Disney classic. I was wrong. A trip to our basement to peruse the shelves netted no result (Where did my previous copy go?), so when…
“Oh, the beefless Tips are back in stock. I love those!” The cashier at Fred Meyer seemed inordinately chatty, but I had sufficient coffee so I didn’t mind. I replied, “Yeah, I’m fortunate because I’m making stew tonight and really needed them.” “I’m vegetarian, so I really like these. Are you a vegetarian as well?”…
Like many I first heard about Grace Vanderwaal through Facebook. It was a video of her first appearance on “America’s Got Talent” that got a lot of attention. A while later there was another video of her on “America’s Got Talent” and showing it to my kids we were interested in what might happen, so…
Hey look, it’s almost a regularly scheduled update. Here we are a week or so ago in front of Fred Meyer when the weather was nice. Walking to school one day I saw this ahead of me. Tevye disappeared one morning. I finally found him in his room dressing himself. And both of his legs…
Following the events portrayed in The Wizard Of Oz Glenda the Good Witch actually brought back Eviline (a.k.a. The Wicked Witch Of The West) in order to give her a second chance. To help in this regard Eviline’s powers were stripped from her and transferred to her broom and given to the Lion, Tin Man…