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2010 Listage

December 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment

Lists! And none of them are in ranked order. Also, none of the lists include the couple of handfuls of things that I forgot. Here goes: My favorite music of 2010 (the source material for this coming Sunday’s playlist): Mandelring Quartett / Schumann: Piano Quintet Josh Rouse / El Turista I disliked this album at first, […]

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Tags: books · fiction · film · music · Screenings · TV

Postcard: Florida Flame Vine

December 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Card is titled: “835 A Florida Home Surrounded by Tropical Foliage and Hedge of Flame Vine. 4A-H750.”

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Tags: postcards

Attack Dogs

October 29th, 2010 · No Comments

Sculpture in Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama.

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Tags: history

Fred FM playlist: 10 October 2010 “Autumn”

October 10th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

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Tags: Fred FM · music · self

Josh Ritter: “Girl in the War” (31 October 2007)

July 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Recently, following a link from my friend Jonathan’s Facebook page to his MySpace page, I stumbled upon this (and another) video clip from the now-legendary Halloween 2007 midnight Laser’s Edge in-store performance by Josh Ritter.

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Tags: music

Trapezoidal Cellphone Images

July 9th, 2010 · No Comments

So there I was, sitting at the red light at the intersection of Valley Avenue and Green Springs Highway, windows down in the post-work late afternoon in an attempt to circulate the stale hot air to the outside.

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Tags: music · My Eye

Quotation Mark Lunacy #1

June 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Sometimes, as you are about to see, our friendly neighborhood President got a little crazy with his quotation mark usage.

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Tags: language

Brunneous Birmingham Barbecue

June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Miss Thing leads me to a table, her two-inch claws ten shades of brown, with glitter. My BBQ plate, by comparison, is a flat Sienna.

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Tags: CNFtweet · food

Fred FM playlist: 9 May 2010 “For Libby”

May 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Approximate playing time: 80 minutes.

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Tags: Fred FM · house · music

(not quite) Tim James campaign commercial #3

April 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Well, it sure didn’t take Dustin Timbrook and his bandmates long to create a parody of the most recent Tim James policital ad.

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Tags: music · politics