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Mar 21

More of the same, and some more besides

I’ve been on something of a streak with clothes pictures for no particular reason. May as well push that out one more day. It’s the content I know purveyors of this site aren’t really here for at all, but, like I said Monday, it’s a light week.

Today, I decided to try encouraging this spring to be an actual honest-to-goodness spring with some light pastel colors.

It did not work. Other forces in the universe are more powerful than my pocket squares. I am just as surprised as anyone.

And there’s been a lot of food here lately, which is odd considering this is in no way a food blog. But, again, Mellow Mushroom’s pizza is important. And when we have occasion to be near their nearest — and too far away store — we get takeout, and plenty of it. For the leftovers, like tonight.

Seventy-six miles is far too far to have to travel to get good pizza, but here we are. And here they are not. Thus far my social media campaign for them to establish a new store in this college town hasn’t been successful. But it’s gaining momentum.

What we’ve not done this week is show you any shows. Shame on me.

Here’s the late night show they shot last week. See it takes place at a bar. Which is a TV set. An always changing and never-completed set.

We’ve got your news here:

And your pop culture — and bagels! — right here:

We’ll have some sports tomorrow. And some more stuff, too. That oughta keep you coming back! See you then.


17
Mar 21

Tonight we are Mellow

Tonight I had the good fortune to join a ride with the many Major Taylor bicycling clubs across the country. So I wore my Major Taylor kit.

He won the world championship in 1899, set almost three-dozen world records in his career and had to deal with all sorts of racism and violence. He didn’t hang on to it, though, and explained why and how in his autobiography, which is a fine sports read.

So I’m on this group ride on Zwift, and I should point out this was in no way a race. Because I don’t race. Because I am not fast. But, somehow, despite that, I found myself off the front for about 25 minutes.

To not see anyone in front of you for that long is pretty wild. And then the really fast guys went by. It was a sight to behold.

But, for a while, my nose was in the wind and I was riding almost all alone. I celebrated with pizza.

Nah. I was going to enjoy that pizza anyway. The Yankee picked up Mellow Mushroom on an errand-trip to Indianapolis and so we are eating right tonight, and tomorrow! Mellow Mushroom really needs a store here. It’s a college town with woefully inferior pizza selections. Mellow would be a huge hit.


16
Mar 21

Happy Jesus on the Radio day

It’s March 16th, and I only get to wear this shirt on this one day of the year, so it will last forever, and that’s a nice thing.

And as much as Guster inspired the day, Tom T. Hall deserves a mention. (He always deserves a mention.)

Jamie Kimmett has an entirely different song that shows up with that name.

Neither Kimmett’s nor Hall’s song is about today, but they both have their charms. Though the new fan-driven supercut remains the choice version.

I’m so glad the pasta percussion family made it into that version of the song. They were one of the first viral covers of the original, after all.

In a crowd — remember those? — it is a singalong.

Well, despite the lyric, if you looked back you saw this: a first for the year, owing to the changing seasons and the springing forward clocks.

The late sun is a lovely gift. Being just about as far west as you can be in the eastern time zone gives you this perk for a good chunk of the year. It’s repayment for the days and days and endless when you see nothing but gray. We were very excited to see it leaving the studio at 7:30 tonight. It’s a little thing. It’s an important thing.


15
Mar 21

This will be a light week

Easy breezy week around here, as we wait for spring to finally show up for good. We’re getting the occasional nice day, but, never one to be satisfied, we now demand consistency. And somewhere in April that will happen. Problem is, to my subtropical way of thinking, I should be saying that in mid-February.

The real problem is I’m thinking about it around New Years. Alas.

But, to help hold me over, I received a nice gift from our lovely Canadian friend this week. I don’t know if you’ve heard of the Canada Games. They take place every two years. The summer version has 20 sports, the winter games features 21 sports.

And cool hoodies all year ’round.

Yesterday we marked Pi Day, the holiday for nerds who are dessert connoisseurs. The Yankee made these derby pies.

They were delicious. Makes you grateful for leftovers, which we will enjoy this evening.

The cats are doing great! Phoebe has taken to lists. Soon she’ll be jotting down observations and then journaling. Before you know it, she’ll be writing poetry. She’s quiet, but deep.

And Poseidon has re-discovered the sun makes occasional appearances this time of year. He’s claimed his spot.

Next month it’ll finally, finally, be a routine thing to see the sun.


12
Mar 21

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Sports shows! You want ’em, they shot ’em. It’s basketball post-season and only one of Indiana’s basketball teams is making the postseason, that hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm here overmuch. Here are the programs from last night.

I know the women’s team will qualify because they are very good. And I know the men aren’t qualifying because they needed to do something nearly miraculous in their conference tournament to even get a glance, but they went out in the first round tonight. One of our students was at the game, and that required some extra people to step into new rules and they did it without missing a beat. And, I believe, a new star was born.

In other, site-related news, I have updated the front page to reflect the promise of spring. So you’ll see another version of these tulips if you just go to the front page.

I predict they’ll stay there for about two weeks, or until I find something better, or just generally get tired of them, whichever comes first.

And in really important news, tonight we had cookies.

And they were a delicious way to start the weekend. Best part, there will be a few more cookies tomorrow, as well.

Have a great weekend, cookies or no. (But definitely try to find some cookies.)