Prophet or Madman

On Friday evening, my wife read a meme to me in which the person wanted potato dishes instead of the bird-themed gifts in the 12 days of Christmas.  So, I tried my hand at it.  For the ...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2023/11/12-potato-dishes-of-christmas.html

"How we deal with death is at least as important as how we deal with life." –James T. Kirk I woke up at some point between midnight and 7am this morning. And, for several moments, I simply...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tenth-anniversary-of-my-fathers.html

We are now more than halfway through April, my birth month! And I will complete my 55th orbit around the Sun this month. But I will not use this occasion to have a party or seek presents. Nor...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2023/04/fifty-five.html

All this month, Facebook has been reminding harassing me to setup a charity through them. Well, I do frequently engage with their platform, perhaps more than I should. But I still don't kno...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2022/04/fifty-four.html

  So, tonight is the actual, official, U.S. calendar-dated Halloween. This is also the time of Samhain, Winter Nights, Allelieweziel, and several other seasonal observances.  Three years ag...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2021/10/halloween-2021-my-continuing-pop.html

  This is the week I turn 53. As usual, Facebook has been reminding harassing me to setup a charity through them. Well, I do frequently engage with their platform, perhaps more than I should....

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2021/04/fifty-three.html

Ten years ago this week, I turned forty-two (42), the age of the "the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything ." This week, I shall turn 52. There is nothing pa...

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So, during my evening commute today, I was going through some playlists on my phone. I came across "Always" by Tony Lucca from the NoiseTrade Summer Mixtape collection. I've had this collectio...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-moment-of-grief-and-of-love-remembered.html

Dad crossed over at 3:07am on 5/3/2013. In my eulogy for Dad , I quoted Deng Ming-Dao's meditation on death. On this, the fifth anniversary of Dad's passing, I still find solace and wisdom...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2018/05/on-fifth-anniversary-of-my-fathers-death.html

I haven't been to Prophet or Madman since June of last year. Since then, I've done most of my posting at Bookended by Cats or directly on Twitter. But an anniversary like this moves me to r...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2018/04/remembering-412013-on-412018.html

Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister, was already trying to recruit tech companies out of Silicon Valley (in the wake of DJT's Muslim, er travel, ban).  French President Emmanuel Macron...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2017/06/well-always-have-paris.html

A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.-- Edward Abbey, author , essayist , and environmental advocate  (1927-1989) I posted this Abbey quote at the hei...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/11/quotable-patriot-election-2016-edition.html

> "They crashed the planes and changed the rules." -- GrooveLily > , Live Through This (Are We There > Yet?), Are We There Yet? . QMR, > 2003 Nine years ago the world...

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Didn't post last night, but here is my latest Friday 80s Flashback !

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/07/da-da-da.html

80S FLASHBACKS ARE NOW AT Well, folks, after a bit of a break -- OK, a nearly two month long break, but a break nonetheless -- I'm back with the 80s Flashback. But I'm moving the Flashb...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/06/flashbacks-have-moved.html

-- This Flashback was originally posted on 4/12/2013 at 06:54 PM. We all have guilty pleasures, songs we like even though we feel a little embarrassed about it. I'll bet you just thought of two...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/04/friday-80s-flashback-for-april-29-2016.html

-- If you're one of the two people who regularly visit this corner of the interwebz, then you must have noticed: I've been remiss in my blogging duties of late. I won't make excuses, and I...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/04/friday-80s-flashback-for-april-15-2016.html

-- I'm not certain how many music fans would consider Joni Mitchell an 80s artist. I'm not even sure I do. Still, about a quarter of her singles were released in that decade. And her 13th ...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/03/friday-80s-flashback-for-march-25-2016.html

-- In 1988, Frank Zappa decided to tour with a band that he hired and paid for by himself. It was a short-lived affair as the whole thing broke down. But the band did remain intact for sev...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/03/friday-80s-flashback-for-march-18-2016.html

-- This week in 1987 (2/23/1987), The Smiths' record company, Rough Trade Records, released the compilation album The World Won't Listen. It is a collection of singles and their B-sides -...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/02/friday-80s-flashback-for-february-26.html

-- Even with my new day job, which I started in December, I started 2016 strong with three straight weeks of 80s music blogging. And then I lapsed for two weeks. But I'm here this week...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/02/friday-80s-flashback-for-february-12.html

Otis watches Snowmageddon 2016 (photo by @Dangrdafne ) -- Well, this weekend's snow storm is the perfect excuse to revisit the snowtunes I posted in the wake of February 2014's snow storm...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/01/friday-80s-flashback-for-january-22.html

A 1980s photo of David Bowie (1947 - 2016) -- David Bowie, who started performing music in 1962 and released his final album on 1/8/2016, died on Sunday, 1/10/2016 at the age of 69. I lear...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/01/friday-80s-flashback-for-january-15-2016.html

DC Comics Super Powers Calendar: January 1988 (via Andertoons.com ) -- Looks like I'm starting 2016 rather similarly to 2015: I missed posting a Flashback last week! So sorry. What with ho...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2016/01/friday-80s-flashback-for-january-8-2016.html

If you want to chill a little on the last day of 2015, you could do so with this "lost" recording by Steve Roach. From the website : > A delayed transmission from the early 80s. Discov...

http://prophetmadman.blogspot.com/2015/12/emotions-revealed-lost-steve-roach.html