How To Emcee a Funeral Without Losing It

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Tuesday, it was cold and dreary in London for about the 153rd day in a row, basically a perfect day to have a funeral. As I’d mentioned on FB the day before Eileen’s funeral, it was a challenge to determine where and to what extent you’d want to put funny into what is intended to […]



Eileen Cadman (Oct. 16, 1950 – March 17, 2013)

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                      Proof that online dating DOES work. Eileen and I both asserted many times that there’s no way the two of us could have met otherwise. The circles we travelled in, the pe…



The Osmonds Wouldn’t Have Done That!

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                   For starters, Justin Bieber, What a DICK!!  You’ve been the designated pre-pubescent fantasy pop star for four years now, and even though you’re creeping beyond the age whe…



It Must Be The Shirt’s Fault!

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                       When your average number of gigs per month has gone from 15 five years ago to 3 or 4, you hope to at least enjoy the ones you do get, and it’s mostly b…



A (Possible) History of Gay Marriage

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                 Hey, maybe it WAS Adam and Steve in the Garden of Eden! We weren’t there, and what do we have to go on, other than multi-thousand-year-old accountings that have been transl…



Top and Bottom Five’s of 2012

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                   In looking down the list of the UK’s top 100 singles of 2012, the most prominent word, at least among the artists’ names, is “featuring,” and appearing only slightly le…



Christmas Number One Politics

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            Just finished watching a BBC special on Christmas Number One’s, and the great importance this country has traditionally consigned to it. In the exactly 60 years that Britain has published a pop chart, an …



December Blues, or My Kitchen LACKS Heat, So I Stay Out Of It

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                   There’s a lot of reasons I hate December, but at least one of them, the horrendous Christmas gigs, seems off the list this year. Still there’s plenty of other things to compensa…



No News Is …. No News!

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                    Dammit, this month started out looking pretty good! It began with The Giants sweep in the World Series, was followed by Obama’s re-election (Yeah, I’ve read the ridiculous comm…



Of Course I’m Ecstatic, Just Not Surprised

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                It would be wrong to say I’m not immensely proud to be a San Francisco Giants fan. They’ve now won two out of the last three World Series, with their 2010 victory over Texas breaking a 56-ye…