“Put on your socks and mittens / it’s getting colder tonight / A snowball in my kitchen / I watched it melt before my eyes…”
Setting the mood for this evening, New Years Eve to be exact, I’m sharing this track.
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We’ve got ourselves some snow here in Manhattan.
Dastardly Sweet Ocean of Sound
These are the guys I’d want to compose the soundtrack to my first film.
Ok, if anything it would be a novel that would make for a great adaptation.
But if you haven’t guessed by now, I can’t stop listening. The track Clipper (listen to this one from start to finish please), off their most recent album titled Isla, is the sort of dastardly sweet ocean of sound that reminds me of what I should be doing with my life.
Get to know them at: www.porticoquartet.com
Tags: Music Portico Quartet
“My Husband The Heart Surgeon” Awarded Best Of 2009
My contributor’s copy of Blood and Thunder, a journal published by The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, arrived in the mail this week. I had no idea until I opened it that my piece “My Husband The Heart Surgeon” had been awarded “2009 Best of Blood and Thunder for Short Stories, Essays, and Prose”.
To the editors of Blood and Thunder - thank you for the honor.
Read “My Husband The Heart Surgeon” after the break.
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Charlie Brown: We’ve got ANOTHER holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving Day is upon us.
Sally Brown: I haven’t even finished eating all of my Halloween candy.
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“A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”
Charles M. Schulz
(1973)
(Sometimes the Parks Dept. Daily Plant newsletter Quote of The Day actually does make my day.)
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