Rants, Reflections, Ruminations

Love Some Vinyl on Record Store Day

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Give an old record a loving home! Today is the eighth annual Record Store Day, so visit one of your local independently owned shops, browse the bins, and pick up a platter full of sound that you can actually hold in your hands — a shiny groooovy disc with a sleeve that doesn’t require a magnifying glass to read! And even if you no longer have a way to spin the record, stop in anyway. You’ll marvel at those old LP covers and find yourself saying, “I had that one…and that one…and OH, I forgot all about that one!” It’s like taking a trip in a time machine.

Walking the Haunted Chambers with my Guide, Emily D.

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If Halloween is about taking a little trip to the dark, spooky, loony side of life, then every day is Halloween for me. Always has been. I was born in the Season of the Witch, and the mysterious and the macabre are my muses. For me, thrills and chills don’t come in the form of … Read more

Keeping My Foreign Tongue in Cheek

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“What’s with all this telephone nonsense of “‘Press 1 for English, press 2 for Spanish’?  You live in America. Speak American, you damn illegals, or go home.” Ah, the words of the xenophobes. Well, yer blogger has figuratively “pressed 2 for English” in every country she’s ever visited. In the 1970s, my little school offered … Read more