{"id":28200,"date":"2025-04-20T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=28200"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T21:15:29","slug":"ramh17-what-goes-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/ramh17-what-goes-around\/","title":{"rendered":"RAMH@17: What Goes Around…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy 17th birthday to Running After My Hat<\/em> (with thanks to the visitors — some known, many anonymous, and quite a few with suspicious email addresses who really, really want my help in ways I’ll never be prepared to offer)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My custom here over the years has been to open with a playlist you can listen to as you read through the balance of the post. Let’s try this one: the soundtrack to the 2019 miniseries<\/a> (on the Hulu streaming service) of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22<\/em>. I wasn’t bowled over by the adaptation itself — it was okay, it did have some affecting moments, and I liked many of the performances, but as a whole I just found myself wanting, y’know, more<\/em>. But the soundtrack: exceptional! The “official” soundtrack on Spotify, however, doesn’t include all the music, by all the same performers, which featured in the series as broadcast; this enterprising Spotify user did the hard work of pulling the thing together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, it occurs to me now that finally catching the damn hat after 22 years would be a terrific blogging goal for me, eh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catch-22<\/em> has been a significant book in my life. Years ago, I wrote up a guest piece about it for a onetime blog about reading called, aptly, The Book Book<\/em>… While the blog itself is shuttered, I’ve still got a copy of the text lying around; I should probably share it here, eventually. Eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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