Category: Odd

Saturday Matinee – Jim Huish, Jim Stafford, School House Rock & Amber’s Drive

When I’m Gone (The Cup Song) Jim Huish of the Nashville Americana-pop group Amber’s Drive offers up a cover of the song “Cups (When I’m Gone)” [via].

Jim Stafford‘s “My Girl Bill” popped into my head the other day for no good reason. I’d forgotten about it for decades, and kinda wished it had stayed that way. So where do we go from here? Maybe this.

I never watched SHR, but that one seems familiar.

Amber’s Drive has good harmonies, a nice vibe, and a song that jives with my attitude these days. Have a great weekend, folks. Be back here tomorrow.

“A Skinny Girl Stuffing Balloons In Her Chonies.” It’s supposed to be art or something.

Balloon Art

I find it interesting that many people who appreciate this kind of *ahem* performance art Freedom of Speech believe that they’re sentient enough to vote against it.

[Found here. Related post here.]

Nancy goes “PUNG-G”

Nancy PUNG-G

Nancy made a window disappear and lowered the ceiling.
Awesome.

[Found here, via here. Related posts here.]

1/1/15 1:1:1 = 1115111 = Happy New Year!

1115111

Day / Month / Year; Hour: Minute: Second.
Date + Time palindrome.

HAPPY NEW YEAR, PEEPS!

[Update: 2015 in binary is a numerical palindrome: 11111011111.]

Christmas In The Heartland

Christmas In The Sticks

[Found here.]

Noon At The Equator

Noon at the equator

[Found here.]

The Day After Christmas on the Starship Enterprise

Star Trek - The Day After Christmas

The entire crew went shopping on planet Khanada.

[Found here.]

Hot Christmas Decorations

firemans-xmas-lights

[Found in here.]

Christmas In Portland

Christmas In Portland

#DarthVader caroling with flaming #bagpipes in a #kilt while on a #unicycle in #Portland. Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from #Twitter.

[Found here.]

Saturday Matinee – Carol of the Bells, Little Drummer Boy & Sleigh Ride

The music for “Carol of The Bells” predates the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, is based upon a Ukrainian traditional chant that predates Christianity, and celebrates the New Year… in April. The original lyrics for the song describe a swallow flying into a house and promising good fortune because lambs have been born, and compliments the master of the house for having a wife with dark eyebrows (at least according to Wiki).

There are exactly 15 Pas, 18 Rums and 63 Pums in the lyrics to “Little Drummer Boy.” If you delete the spaces between the pa-rum-pa-pum-pums, there are exactly 21 Rumps. I can’t stand that song because it doesn’t stop when it should (just as the “Twelve Days Of Christmas” made it’s point on Day One).

It just doesn’t seem like Christmas until I hear The Ronette’s version of Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride.”

Have a great Pre-Holiday Weekend, folks, and don’t fight over parking spaces. I was there first.