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Hola! Iâve been using Duolingo to learn Spanish. Or at least to try to learn Spanish. Iâve been at it for a bit. Or a bit longer than a bit. Am I anywhere close to fluent? No. (Or, as we say in Spanish⊠âno.â) But am I a lot better than I was before I started? Si! And am I a lot better off spending time on the Duolingo app instead of mindlessly scrolling through social media? Without a doubt!âŠ
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Round and round
Iâm not into motorsports of any sort. I blame that time in high school when my friends and I were doing our own late night time trials on my friend Jonâs younger sisterâs moped. Complete a loop from his house â down the street, up a hill, another straightaway, then back down the hill. I was clearly on track for the fastest lap â at least in my head â until I wiped out in turn 4, going down theâŠ
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Working (or not) for the weekend
Hereâs a quick overview of what I was up to late last week (some of which my faithful readers â all three of them â already know about): Thursday night: Jason Narducy house concert⊠at our house. Friday night: Seeing my son Gabrielâs band The Collies play at a bar in Mt. Lookout. Saturday during the day: working on a basement clean-up project. Saturday night: Maggie Rose/Molly Tuttle concertâŠ
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Living for live music.
Hereâs our living room this morning: But hereâs what it was like last night: A rockinâ house concert, for our family and 25 other folks â some of whom were friends, but most of whom were just friendly strangers. Thatâs Jason Narducy playing to the crowd. He releases music as Split Single. Heâs also the touring bassist for Superchunk, one of my favorite bands. Also bassist in the Bob Mould bandâŠ
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A New Year's Resolution in mid-May
Better late than never, I suppose. Good thing I didnât have âstop procrastinatingâ on my resolution list. Although this great article from The Guardian that was published⊠well, the start of the year⊠is also giving all of us permission to ease off the self-improvement resolutions. The intro paragraph from Oliver Burkemanâs piece sums up the concept quite nicely: The older I get, the moreâŠ
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Scary predictions? You bet!
At the end of March, I blogged about folks cashing in on the death and destruction happening in Iran. That sort of heartless profiteering from the prediction markets (namely Kalshi and Polymarket) has continued pretty much unabated. Those companies have become unregulated casinos in our pockets, with scary consequence. So much so that John Oliver devoted an episode of his Last Week Tonight showâŠ
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Getting indie in Indiana
I spent a decent amount of time last week hootinâ and hollerinâ in the Hoosier State. with nary a Gene Hackman sighting. Live music is my game. This past Tuesday, I drove to Bloomington, Indiana to see Gladie, an indie rock band from Philadelphia. (And my new musical obsession.) (I also took my son and one of his roommates out to dinner before the show. It was âtwo-fer Tuesday.â) Then onâŠ
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See the good to be the good
Great advice from a recent edition of James Clearâs 3-2-1 newsletter: Iâll readily admit that I can be a Negative Nelly. (OK, I begrudgingly admit it â true to form.) A Debbie Downer. âItâll never work.â âWhat will go wrong next?â âWeâre screwed.â As Mr. Clear (great name, btw) points out, seeing the positive doesnât involve putting on rose-colored glasses. Itâs just â as Amy KrouseâŠ
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Keep on rollin'
âChadâ (a.k.a. our 2008 Honda CR-V) recently hit a mileage milestone. 240,000 miles. And heâs not dead yet. Most of those miles were courtesy of previous owners. We got âChadâ (our kids named him⊠er, I mean, it) nearly 8 years ago. He already had clocked 181,000 by then. As âusedâ as used can be. But nearly 60K is certainly something to celebrate. Thatâs a lot of trips to high school for ourâŠ
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If it feels good, do it!
Seth Godin knows whatâs up: âGood work can be good without being popular.â Amen to that, Brother Seth! In keeping with the music reference that Seth made, I know dozens of bands who have created brilliant music but never got popular. Thereâs the famous Brian Eno quote about the Velvet Underground: âI was talking to Lou Reed the other day, and he said that the first Velvet Underground recordâŠ
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Music for the minimum
This past Friday night, Milwaukee singer/songwriter Brett Newski played a free show in the lounge at the Southgate House in Newport, KY. The music was great, but the crowd could best be described as âsparse.â However, there was a woman in the audience who knew the lyrics to every song Brett sang. She was mouthing along (not, it should be noted, singing along) to every tune. So much so that BrettâŠ
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The real Dynamic Duo
Batman & Robin are blasĂ© compared to the real Dynamic Duo. It isnât Batman & Robin, itâs Carol & Robin: I met them eons ago in college. They were a couple of years younger than our gang, but they became our pseudo kid sisters⊠mainly because two of their friends actually were kid sisters of two guys in our gang. At a small school like Xavier, it wasnât long until all of us knew all of them andâŠ
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Enjoy the run, before they run off
UConn and Michigan face off tonight for the NCAA D-1 Championship in menâs hoops. But in the NIL era, itâs really tough for alums to thump their chest if âtheirâ team wins, because most of the players are just stopping by for âone shining momentâ or two. Michiganâs starting five features only one player who was with the program last year. In fact, Nimari Burnett has been with the program for aâŠ
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They greed. You bleed.
By all accounts, the Iran âdonât call it a warâ war has been a unmitigated disaster, an utter folly, a colossal mistake. Oh wait, not by ALL accounts. There are some bank accounts who have rated it a rousing success, based on their totally coincidental investments in oil and S&P500 futures, just minutes before a Trump tweet last Monday hinting at an end to the war. Hmm, who couldâve had suchâŠ
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Beauty is everywhere
Sometimes, when you least expect it, where you least expect it, you find beauty. Like when youâre walking to work, and you see this: Yes, theyâre fake flowers. Yes, theyâre in a dumpster. But in a weird way, that makes the scene even more compelling. âOne manâs trashâ indeed! Beauty is everywhere â if youâre looking for it. And if weâre alive, we should be looking for it. Have a freshâŠ
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R.E.M. = Really Enjoyable Memories
This past Tuesday, I drove two-and-a-half hours to see a tribute band. It wasnât Hells Belles (female AC/DC tribute band). It wasnât Pink Talking Fish (tribute to Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, and Phish) It wasnât the Hot Red Chili Peppers (tribute to the Red Hot Chili Peppers). It wasnât Mini KISS (KISS tribute band of little people). It was less a tribute band, and more of a supergroup â withâŠ
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Redhawks fever
The Miami Redhawks menâs basketball team takes on Tennessee in the NCAA tourney this afternoon. A #11 seed vs. a #6 seed. Miami has already won â literally and figuratively. They won their âplay-inâ game Wednesday night in Dayton against SMU. I was there. It felt like a Miami home game with most of the crowd cheering for the school thatâs a mere 46 miles from Dayton. But theyâve also already wonâŠ
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