Friday Random 10: The Great and Not-So-Great edition
This week’s list has a repeat, the CYHSY track (which is included according to the rules of the meme), but the rest is the usual pleasant all-over-the-map assortment. Well, mostly pleasant: once the novelty of hearing Alex Chilton’s once-great Box Tops cover Blondie’s “Call Me” wears off, you’re left with a halfhearted cover that neither [...]
Happy belated birthday, Thomas Jefferson
On April 13, 1743, 263 years and one day ago, Thomas Jefferson was born. Rumor has it that it was several days later that a delegation from Fairfax County was the first to call the infant “Mr. Jefferson.”
I have made something of a semiannual practice of observing Mr. Jefferson’s birthday with an assortment of pithy [...]
