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Boyish Prankery
Marta was wondering earlier this week about pranks, harmless or funny or otherwise. Coincidentally, at about the same time that she posted that, I received a funny reminder of a successful but harmless prank I’d been involved with from years ago. Thought I’d share the story with you (even though some of it, in retrospect, [...]
Discoveries
[Photo above taken by the Hubble Wide-Field Camera 3 and released a few days ago by NASA. Several thousand galaxies are visible in the original, "a peek at the universe as it looked about 600 million years after the Big Bang." More info here and here.] From whiskey river (which excerpted from this poem, in [...]
Superstar in the Making
Regular whiskey river Friday post coming up shortly. In the meantime, in case you haven’t seen it already, another of those going-/gone-viral instant Web sensation videos to put a Friday grin on your face: To begin, if you don’t already know of the songwriter/performer Jason Mraz and his song “I’m Yours,” you might want to [...]
What’s in a Song: Cry Me a River (2)
[This is Part 2 of a two-part series about the song "Cry Me a River," made popular, originally, in a recording released in 1955. Part 1, about the song's history, appeared a few days ago. As I indicated there, if you hope to learn anything from this about the Justin Timberlake song of the same [...]
Navigating My Subconscious
When I was a boy, among my adventure fantasies was being a fighter pilot. There was something tremendously exciting to me in the idea of traveling at superhigh speeds and concentrating not just on the flight path ahead, but on the split-second change in circumstances in all three dimensions at once. You’d have to keep [...]
What’s Your Story? (Are You Sure?)
From whiskey river: The Story, Around the Corner is not turning the way you thought it would turn, gently, in a little spiral loop, the way a child draws the tail of a pig. What came out of your mouth, a riff of common talk. As a sudden weather shift on a beach, sky looming [...]
What’s in a Song: Cry Me a River (1)
[Another in a series of occasional posts about popular American songs with long histories. And if you are seeking information on the Justin Timberlake song by the same name, believe me, you are 100% in the wrong place.] On paper, it doesn’t appear to be a “big” song. Nearly always, the arrangement features a single [...]
