Advertisements Or, an announcement After 200 posts (!), I decided it was time to move the blog over to Substack. It’s all the same stuff for free, but there will be other content available to paying subscribers, including special projects and semi-regular dives that are somehow even deeper than what I normally do. Check outContinue reading “I’ve moved to Substack!”
Category Archives: Writing
An Improvised Quatrain on the Lennon-McCartney Songwriting Partnership
Advertisements Possibly greater than Arlen and Harburg, Possibly greater than Rodgers and Hart, Possibly greater than Gershwin and Gershwin— Gosh, I don’t know where to start! Thoughts on “Now and Then” coming soon. Image: 1969 via AP
Who #5: This is embarrassing
Advertisements Or, a check-in While interloping at the conference in Milan, I met a very knowledgeable presenter (British) to whom I took an instant liking. It somehow came up that I was writing this series on the Who because I had been listening to them all year. Her knee-jerk reaction was: (weirded-out face) “Why?” ItContinue reading “Who #5: This is embarrassing”
Who #4: La La La Songs
Advertisements In which I do a lot of air-drumming You know how any given McCartney composition has little cues and clues that let you know it’s a McCartney? I guess those tend to be musical more than lyrical. Anyway, in a like manner, Pete Townshend has a collection of what I call ‘la la laContinue reading “Who #4: La La La Songs”
Who #3: why don’t you all ffffffff
Advertisements “we live in a generation where a generation we live in a generation lives in a generation we live in but y’all ain’t ready to have that conversation” : Lil Nas X What is a generation? This is not a question I asked myself while listening to “My Generation,” because I was busy wonderingContinue reading “Who #3: why don’t you all ffffffff”
The what, the where, the when, & the why
Advertisements …but most of all, the who! This story begins with a new listening cycle that started in late January or early February. It reached a milestone in late June, with a concert. I can see by now that it has no end. I guess I wasn’t ready for the Who until now. I haveContinue reading “The what, the where, the when, & the why”
Somebody Else’s Poem, for Megan Rapinoe
Advertisements In which a classic becomes relevant again When I heard the US had been eliminated from the Women’s World Cup the other day—and that Megan Rapinoe, who never misses a penalty, had in fact missed—I thought immediately of this poem by Ernest Thayer. It is a sports poem, if not a soccer/football one, andContinue reading “Somebody Else’s Poem, for Megan Rapinoe”
Introverts & Extroverts
Advertisements Or, a soapbox Well, not exactly; ‘soapbox’ suggests an energy that I don’t have at the moment. But I’ll do my best. *clears throat* Hear ye, hear ye, people of the internet. I would like to join the chorus of voices imploring us to collectively adjust our assessment of the differences between introversion and extroversion.Continue reading “Introverts & Extroverts”
A byte of midweek reading…
Advertisements Or, flash nonfiction Last week I published a short creative nonfiction piece in the Women* Writing Berlin Lab Magazine, something I’d been working on for a while that dealt with something from an even longer while ago. A lot of my recent work has confronted, examined, and/or come to terms with memory, of whichContinue reading “A byte of midweek reading…”
News of the Soul: March
Advertisements It’s time for another roundup from Soul and the City! There’s so much to look forward to as the springtime rolls in: check out the events, classes, and mind-broadening stuff we’re offering 😊 Love—Cecilia