Pages Tagged “songs”
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- Hello chkdsk, my old friend…
Hello chkdsk, my old friend I’ve got to run you once again Cause my Windows box is acting weird And the disk drive must need something cleared And the error that was printed on my screen Made me scream And put aside my work For chkdsk
- Books of Laredo
As I walked out on the streets of Laredo, As I walked out in Laredo one day, I stopped in the mall just to visit the bookstore. The bookstore was closed, it’s been taken away. The only bookstore in Laredo, Texas, a city of 250,000 people, has closed. The nearest one is 150 miles away […]
- Musical Thoughts of the Day
1. Fountains of Wayne‘s song, “No Better Place,” popped up on the iPod today. There’s a great line that made us both laugh when we heard them at a concert several years ago, opening for some band that one or the other of us wanted to see: It may be the whiskey talking But the […]
- Snow More!
Oh the crowds outside are frightful, But the music’s so delightful… ’Cept for ev’ry darn place we go, It’s “Let it Snow!” “Let it Snow!” “Let it Snow!” Seriously. It seems like this song has somehow become the most popular Christmas song this year. I normally don’t mind it, but come on! It doesn’t help […]
- Maps and Music
Leave it to MapQuest to remind you that the nearby railroad actually is the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe (and immediately lodge the song into your mind). Actually, I’m also reminded of a Forbidden Broadway bit on a musical version of Anna Karenina, which finished with the parody, “On the Ashkabad, Tblisi and the Kiev […]