We talk a lot about six-fingered men and as-you-wishes and the wine in front of me and even whether or not anybody wants a peanut, but tonight let’s just sit back and appreciate how Mark Knopfler made a nice little … Continue reading The 04/21 Night Thread Is Like A Storybook Story
Happy Night Threading! Continue reading The 04/17 Night Thread Is Cow Tools
It’s “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted” by Jimmy Ruffin. Continue reading The 04/10 Night Thread Of The Song Currently Playing In The Cafe Where I Am
There was no Night Thread and I looked over at my shelf and there is Catan on it. Here is a Night Thread of Catan. If you’ve never played it before, you can read about it here. It’s for nerds … Continue reading The Emergency 03/30 Night Thread Has Longest Road
Looking back now at that question of what all those hippies were doing singing and dancing in the desert, the answer is clearly: “Putting on one heck of a show, that’s what.” Continue reading All Your Followers Are Blind — Too Much 03/28 Night Thread On Their Minds
It’s “Iris” by the Goo Goo Dolls.
Continue reading The 03/24 Night Thread Of The Song Currently Playing In The Cafe Where I Am
wangity-wang wangity-wang Continue reading The 03/24 Day Thread Is a Little Airplane Nyao
Japanese home furnishings/clothing/general-stuff chain Muji has for the last 25 years commissioned a series of mostly instrumental folk music albums from around the world to play as BGM (background music) in their stores. Continue reading The 03/21 Day Thread Plays In The Background While You Buy Some Storage Bins
Nothing, Gladys Knight. Sorry! Continue reading The 03/19 Day Thread Apologizes to Gladys Knight
Fun fact: Not every song by 1960’s girl group The Shangri-Las is about tragic motorcycle death! This is one of those songs! Continue reading The 03/14 Night Thread Is Good Bad, But It’s Not Evil
Seven weeks ago I began a header series on the 21st Century Pearl Jam albums, and we’ve finally made it to the band’s twelfth studio release, 2024’s Dark Matter. Continue reading The 03/12 Day Thread Hears Its Own Voice Rising
If I had a nickel for every time a hit musical had a song about ditching New York and running away to Santa Fe, well, I’d have two nickels, but still it’s weird that it happened twice. Continue reading We’ll Open Up A Restaurant In The 03/08 Day Thread And Also Hide From Pulitzer’s Goons There I Guess
This song is “The Infanta” by The Decemberists from their 2005 album Picaresque. I would say more, but “The Infanta” by The Decemberists has already used up all of the words. Just, like, in the English language. There are none … Continue reading From All Atop The Parapets Blow A Multitude Of Coronets, 03/07 Night Threads Rhapsodical And Fair
After a seven-year gap from 2013’s Lightning Bolt, Pearl Jam released its 11th studio album, Gigaton, in 2020. Continue reading I’m In Love With The 03/05 Day Thread Cause It’s Out Of This World
Today’s Night Thread header song is “Barracuda” from Heart’s 1977 album Little Queen. Continue reading You’re Gonna Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn To The 03/03 Night Thread
Released between 2009’s Backspacer and 2020’s Gigaton, Pearl Jam’s sole studio album in the 2010s is 2013’s Lightning Bolt. Continue reading The 02/26 Day Puts All Its Faith In No Faith
We haven’t done the ’80s in a while, have we? Feels like it’s been a while. Let’s do some ’80s. Continue reading The 02/21 Day Thread Can’t Control Itself Any Longer
Hey! We made it to Backspacer! The “fun” one! Continue reading Turn It Up, Set It Off Before It’s The 2/19 Day Thread
Last week I blabbered on about 2002’s Riot Act and this week I shall blabber on about 2006’s Pearl Jam. Continue reading The 02/12 Day Thread Can See It Coming
You kids like Lord of the Rings, right?
It’s pretty good. Continue reading The 02/07 Day Thread Is Lord of the Rings
