2021
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Aquarium Playlist, 12/14/21
EPISODE #465: HOLIDAY SPECIAL 2021Darlene Love — “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home” [ALTERNATE THEME]Laura Cantrell and Michael Shelley — “Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus”The Spaminato Brothers — “The Very Best Gift of All” The Porchistas — “3 a.m. Santa” worldsucks — “Must Be Santa”The Polyphonic Spree — “It’s Christmas”Nicole Atkins — “Every Single Christmas”Swansea Sound […]
Aquarium Playlist, 12/7/21
EPISODE #464: 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO IX) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Hank Williams — “Happy Rovin’ Cowboy” [Health and Happiness Show theme]soundbite — Jack on WNYC’s Morning Edition, 12/19/12 Gary Stewart — “Ten Years of This” Mac McCaughan — “I Hear a Radio”Hearty Har — “Radio Man ’56”All Ashore! — “Radio Sunshine”Freedy Johnston — […]
Movie Review: Ghostbusters — Afterlife
4 stars out of 5Ghostbusters is my jam. It was perfection when I was 15: an ideal blend of smart, silly, juvenile, and flat-out funny. I’ll always remember being at my buddy John’s house for New Year’s Eve; at midnight we discovered that HBO was playing Ghostbusters, and even though we’d both seen it in […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/23/21
EPISODE #462: THANKSGIVING 2021 (PARADES) live from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day ParadeThe Genuine Diamelles — “Underdog” [ALTERNATE THEME]My Chemical Romance — “Welcome to the Black Parade”Aberdeen — “Marine Parade” The Undertones — “The Love Parade” The Dream Academy — “The Love Parade”M. Ward — “Sweethearts on Parade”The Magnetic Fields — “Parades Go By”Of Montreal — […]
What I’ve Been Watching: Edition XXI
Though life is a lot more normal now, thankfully there’s still plenty of TV time. Oh who am I kidding, there’s always TV time! (Plus my newish WiFi extender and Amazon Firestick made it much easier to watch streaming stuff on my television.) Here’s another annotated rundown of shows I’ve checked out in recent months. […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/16/21
EPISODE #461: GREATThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Mountain Goats — “Prowl Great Cain”The Connells — “Really Great” Elvis Costello & the Attractions — “The Great Unknown” The Beths — “Great No One”Gang of Four — “Not Great Men”The Shangri-Las — “Give Him a Great Big Kiss”Honeybunch — “The Great Divide”The Glands — “Great Waves”The Lemonheads […]
Ten Years Ago: Goodbye Scholastic
On November 11, 2011, after 19+ years of employment, I left Scholastic’s Classroom Magazines division. This is the farewell e-mail I sent to my co-workers. It’s hard to believe I’m typing these words, and this will be a shock to many of you. But with a ridiculously heavy heart, I must announce I have decided […]
Aquarium Playlist, 11/9/21
EPISODE #460: DISCOThe Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]The Disco Bros. (Nick Lowe) — “Let’s Go to the Disco”Jennifer O’Connor — “Born at the Disco” Tussle — “Disco d’Oro” [AB mix]Colleen Green — “Disco”The Minutemen — “If Reagan Played Disco”Future Bible Heroes — “The World Is a Disco Ball”The New Pornographers — “Valkyrie in the Roller […]
Movie Review: The French Dispatch
4.5 stars out of 5Or maybe 4 out of 5, but, somewhere in there. As I’ve said a number of times, there are a handful of directors that I am absolutely crazy about, and Wes Anderson is one of them. Perhaps I’m too soft on them or perhaps I hold them to too high a […]
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