Seven Angels, Four Kids, One Family
Sometimes sarcasm is the only sane response
Due to negligent parenting, my daughter has eaten two Happy Meals in the last three weeks, and each of these contained a half-length CD of Kids Bop. Each contains four pop songs, sung by kids or by young adults who…
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On my iTunes I have a playlist called “stealth Christian.” They’re songs that I find resonate in a Christian way even though I’m pretty sure they weren’t intended that way. Offhand, I find Dan Fogelberg’s “Leader Of The Band” to…
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To: GuardianAngelSupport@godgroups.heavenlyhost.el Subject: Make It Stop — part two Hey, I couldn’t help hearing that your charge has been listening to the songs from Hank The Cowdog over and over again for the last, oh, week or so. Those painful,…
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Bear with me here. I’m asking, from an academic perspective, if the election of Barack Obama will result in the death of hip-hop. My son’s reading class is studying the poetry of Langston Hughes. I was speaking to him about…
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New weblog tour question: What is the biggest faux pas you’ve ever committed? What happened? Did you ever correct the mistake? What did you learn from the experience? I learned that teasing is in the eye of the beholder. This…
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New question, and answer for yourself in the comments: “What song’s lyrics so accurately describe you or a period in your life that you could’ve written it yourself?” There are times I would say, “All of them,” and I was…
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Here’s a blast from the past to make up for yesterday’s mewling whining post: how I taught my toddler about bourbon. On the way home from Angeltown, we listened to the soundtrack from The Sound of Music. (Thank you, Patient…
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Last night at Casa Philangelus was the night of the mixed-up music. First my husband told me about a commercial he’d heard for a local college team’s football. He found their theme song strangely familiar, but he couldn’t place it…
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I mentioned once that two years ago, I discovered that they made music prior to 1960, and some of it didn’t even involve guitars. Classical music has been a learning adventure for me in several respects. For one thing, there…
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Kiddo#2 was singing while I washed dishes, when suddenly she stopped. “Why are all the songs you like about love?” I honestly cannot remember which song it was she had been singing at the time, but does it really matter?…
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