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Vocabulary Yoga – 5

It’s time for another round of language-stretching vocabulary yoga. Here are some recent finds that I picked up on WordSpy and the Open Dictionary.
joy-to-stuff ratio: the time a person has to enjoy life versus the time a person spends accumulating material goods
butt bus: a bus parked near a pub or restaurant that is used as [...]

Music of the Spheres: Redux

For the love of all things cool and artistic and musical, you must check out the SolarBeat project. The White Vinyl Design group has given a tone to each of the planets in our solar system, worked out their rate of travel, and then kicked them off on digital orbits, leaving the viewer/listener to adjust [...]

Overheard at the Record Store-17

“As an album it’s pretty cheesy, but as a piece of historical significance, it’s huge.”
“Daddy, I don’t like this music. These people are weird.”
“OK buddy.”
“I went through a Guns ‘n’ Roses phase.”
“Oh yeah? How long did it last?”
“It never really ended.”
“Oh dude. The only time I’ve ever been escorted out of a bar was with [...]

Schoolhouse Rockers

Remember Schoolhouse Rock? With their cool and groovy attempts to get us all to pay attention to grammar, punctuation, politics and whatever else was deemed worthy?
Here are a few word-nerd favorites to jog your memory:
The Tale of Mr. Morton

Verbs

Conjunction Junction

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A Band of One

The first one-man band that I remember seeing, was Bert in Mary Poppins. I was immediately intrigued by the notion that you could, by utilizing all of your available appendages, create a pretty full and lively sound.
Bert has set a pretty high bar as far as one-man bands go. Check out the knee cymbals, the [...]

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