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He’s Back! (And so am I)
I took a hiatus from blogging for a bit. I’ve been traveling for work and for fun and it’s been difficult to write. I’m home for the foreseeable future, however. So here’s to getting back into the routine! More importantly, Owlbertson is back! I saw him in his tree a few days ago! I stopped to get a photo of him to post here, but as soon as I got out of my car he jumped down into the hole he likes to perch in and disappeared. So maybe that’s why I haven’t seen him in such a long time; it turns out he has a basement! So, no photo.…
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Fare Thee Well, Starman
I was a teenager in the 1990s when I first heard “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie. I was outraged. “What? Who is this? They stole that baseline from Vanilla Ice!” And everyone present stopped laughing an hour or so later. Luckily I survived my teenhood and evolved into a less idiotic and better exposed human being. Even more luckily, the career of David Bowie was not a closed book. It was a party that was still very much raging, and I was able to join. Not that I was hip. There was also the incident where I rented Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence. It’s a great movie, and Bowie…