Tunnel of Love is the eighth studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on October 9, 1987. Although members of the E Street Band occasionally performed on the album, Springsteen recorded most of the parts himself, often with drum machines and synthesizers. “Two Faces” is another winning song from this album of winning songs. I love…
Month: June 2019
Justice for the Fookers (long)
image link It was the 50th anniversary of the day the Governor of Whosville, Foul Fooker, gave the order to the State troops to fire randomly into protesting students and other students walking on the campus of Higher Ed U. Myra Madison, age 70, lost her sister, Nancy, that day. Nancy was leaving her honors…
CSN&Y – Ohio ——— Songs that reference Richard Nixon — PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture
If you read no other long essay today, PLEASE read this. It talk about when, in 1970, the Governor of Ohio at the time, methodically murdered 4 college students through orders to the state’s National Guard troops. No one was held accountable. I knew 4 students were shot by national guardsmen at the time but…
#MM Tale Weaver #228 – Cooking – 20th June
There is skill and art to cooking. Cooking is an exercise in experimentation based on experience. When one’s experiment is successful, sometimes the recipe is written down and shared. Not all cooks like to write down recipes, and some don’t like to share their recipes. In the olden days you got your recipes from friends…
Coloring Club Plus — 6/21/19
Young Americans is the ninth studio album by the English musician David Bowie, released on 7 March 1975 by RCA Records. The album marked a departure from the glam rock style of Bowie’s previous albums, showcasing his interest in soul and R&B music. Bowie would call the album’s sound “plastic soul”, describing it as “the…
The God of Bubblegum Mountain
image link He told me God lived on Bubblegum Mountains, the strawberry peaks that greeted the sun first each morning in the summer. Naive I was but I had a few questions for The Almighty so I set off across meadows filled with flowers and grains, streams with boulders and crawdads, then across a sweltering…
Dark Angel for earthweal
At age of five became I blindBad nerves to blame that made me screamCursed I our God for act unkindYet all, my friend, ’twas not as seemed The act upon heaped thoughts unkindTurned out to have a brighter themeThrough haunts did stray the other fiveTo caves of dreams with golden seams Each night I searched…
Tao Talk 