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November 2015

November 02, 2015

Reading, watching, listening to …

I'm reading ... When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris Sedaris is the...

October 2015

October 21, 2015

I’m reading, I’m watching, I’m listening to . . .

I'm reading . . . Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith. Fourth in the Arkady...

October 14, 2015

I’m reading, I’m watching, I’m listening to …

I'm reading . . . A Case of Conscience by James Blish (1958). It turns...

October 05, 2015

The lady was sad, and MAD. (We showed the kids an opera!)

My kids' experience with opera comes entirely from Bugs Bunny, and we really wanted them to...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

I’m reading, I’m watching, I’m listening to . . .

I'm reading . . . Zorro by Isabel Allende. Allende is definitely a guilty pleasure....

September 08, 2015

Happy birthday, Antonín Dvořák!

Born on this lavishly romantic day in 1841. Did you know that he was a...

April 2015

April 29, 2015

New to me: the wonderful Samatha Crain

I was grousing to myself about spending yet another evening and afternoon driving back and...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Making ashes out of you and me

What a shame that Ash Wednesday comes but once a year. For many of us,...

February 03, 2015

Will no one stop the cycle of violins?

The other day, Mendelssohn's string octet came on the radio, and I was astonished to...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Never mind the bollocks, here’s the Pennywhistlers

Sometimes your day is going so poorly, for no reason at all, that you just...

January 07, 2015

On repeat today: Son Little

A lovely lady (hi, lovely lady!) sent me an Amazon gift card, so...

December 2014

December 22, 2014

Cheap and Easy Christmas Things that Even You Can Do!

I assume you're already doing all the religious stuff, and have already bought, made, figured...

December 01, 2014

Allow me to share one of the finest works of art yet produced by Western Civilization

We haven't heard "Mary Didja Knowwww?" at Mass yet, but IF WE DO . ....

October 2014

October 22, 2014

Listen to this! Son Little

Heard this guy for the first time on the radio this morning, and it made...

October 01, 2014

Sam Rocha’s new spin on spirituality

From my new article in Our Sunday Visitor about Sam Rocha and his new album,...

September 2014

September 11, 2014

Sam Rocha sings . . . Augustinian Soul? (an interview with Sam)

In contemporary Gospel music, people like Israel Houghton are making amazing music with...

June 2014

June 11, 2014

Dolly Parton. Still.

How did I miss this? Dolly Parton has a new album out -- her 42nd...

June 10, 2014

My earworm for the morning . . .

could be worse! Steely Dan, "Pearl of the Quarter" (from Countdown to Ecstasy, 1973) What...

June 05, 2014

What did you dance to at your wedding?

No reason, just curious! We really wanted "I Walk the Line," but with a music budget...

May 2014

May 10, 2014

Jazz for cows, because why not?

I don't know which I like more, the fact that these guys pulled over and...

May 04, 2014

Free Bach every Friday!

Eventually, the new All of Bach website will host . . . well, all of...

March 2014

March 19, 2014

Help me load my iPad with freebies!

The other day, I was amazed and delighted to hear that I had won second...

March 13, 2014

At the Register: Beyond Ashes

In which I heroically refrain from making fun of bad hymns and instead suggest some...

March 04, 2014

Quick, before it’s Lent!

Listen to this.

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Songs on butts, evebody knows one!

Songs on butts, every garden grows one! Oh, Neil Diamond, you always come back to...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

I think Taylor Marshall May Actually Be the Walrus

Look, I know Taylor Marshall is a good guy. He is a courageous and clear...

January 22, 2014

Is there something wrong with me

. . . that I do not find this irritating at all? It sounds like...

January 09, 2014

This is the stupidest thing I have ever saw.

I do this all the time when I'm alone. I laughed so hard!

December 2013

December 24, 2013

At the Register: The Light of the Child

A poem, a tune, a painting for Christmas. May the baby who brings us warmth...

December 19, 2013

Like a lark who is learning to pray

Yesterday, we went to another lovely concert at the public high school that my oldest...