Monthly Archives: April 2007

39. you want to go antiquing

Song Blog

I learned about Jonathan Coulton from Anna and Jason who do a weekly podcast I like. They mentioned him in passing – saying they missed his last concert, but had seen him recently, so I checked him out. I’m glad I did.

Last year he wrote a song a week. He called it Thing a Week and uploaded it to his website for free download. My favorite is Creepy Doll, although RE Your Brains is a lot of fun too.

Check out his You page for links for videos and other multimedia that people have made using his music. Some are are a hoot.

Here is a YouTube video of him performing Creepy Doll.

38. The prize winner of Harpers Ferry WV (we hope)

Music,

Doug, my friend and hair stylist, has considered putting out a CD for years, but it never happened – the time was never right. He’s made gift CDs of his music for friends, relatives and his salon clients. I think he has a great voice – and important things to say.

Doug entered a jingle contest for Chock Full O’Nuts coffee about 6 weeks ago, just after he returned from his second trip to Thailand. He’d read The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio on the airplane and heard about the contest a few days later and considered it a sign. (Although he admits that writing jingles was never a dream of his in his youth).

Two weeks ago, his network of family, friends and friends-of-friends faithfully voted for him on the Chock Full O’Nuts website. He made the finals and this week we are voting again.

37. Mistaken identity

Song Blog,

Stealing this one from Deloney –

On the way to Savannah we did something unusual. We stopped for lunch at a sit-down restaurant.

It was Ruby Tuesday’s (Cracker Barrel, next door, had a long line).

Clare wanted to know why it was called Ruby Tuesday – Why Tuesday and not Sunday or Monday. I enlightened her.

Watching Deloney’s link for B kiddo, I discovered I was mistaken – and now I need to tell Clare it was not the Beatles but the Rolling Stones.

Oops.

(Could I tell her it was a lame April Fools joke?)