The Road to Springfield

The Road to Springfield: [link deprecated] Vote on your favorite supporting character in NCAA playoff-style matches. To be eligible, the character must have appeared in at least two episodes. Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are ineligible.

This weekend was laid-back but pretty busy: I went to the lesbian picnic on Friday night. Saturday, we did a brief run through the Talbott Street art fair, peered in the windows of Dan and Doug’s new house (they’re closing Wednesday) and ate lunch at Bazbeaux. On Saturday night, I went to R. Bistro (Massachusetts Ave.) with Dan, Doug, Garrett, Amy, Jeremy, Jennifer, Barb, Michelle, and Ralph. David’s the manager, there; it’s a new restaurant. Nice place; definitely go.

I spend Sunday working on the lawn and “verandah”. I finished putting up hooks for hanging plants, then planted the Snow-in-Summer seeds and Black Eyed Susans, then I went and bought a hanging plant and a bunch of small plants for the front flower bed.

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Happy Birthday, Riley (vol. 3)

01 – Big Rock Candy Mountain – Harry McClintock
02 – Potato – Cheryl Wheeler
03 – Sugar Sugar – The Archies
04 – Candy Man – Sammy Davis Jr. & The Mike Curb Congregation
05 – Chewy Chewy – Ohio Express
06 – Yummy Yummy Yummy – Ohio Express
07 – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep – Mac & Katie Kissoon
08 – Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead – The Fifth Estate
09 – Is This The Way To Amarillo – Tony Christie
10 – A Little Bit Me – The Monkees
11 – I Think I Love You – David Cassidy
12 – The Garden Song – Peter, Paul & Mary
13 – Bad Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce
14 – Black Superman [Muhammed Ali] – Johnny Wakelin
15 – Kung Fu Fighting – Carl Douglas
16 – Devil Went Down To Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band
17 – Elvira – The Oak Ridge Boys
18 – You Are My Sunshine – Riders in the Sky
19 – Don’t Fence Me In – Roy Rogers
20 – Thank God I’m A Country Boy – John Denver
21 – Convoy – C. W. McCall
22 – Pass The Dutchie – Musical Youth
23 – Up Up And Away – The Fifth Dimension
24 – Wonder Woman – New World Symphony
25 – BJ And The Bear – Greg Evigan
26 – Muskrat Love – Captain & Tennille

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birthday!

It’s my birthday, and Beth bought me new new comic book Fray by Joss Whedon, which is very cool. My co-workers took me out to dinner, despite my persistent grumpiness, and I got fortune cookie and free dessert. Doug called to wish me Happy Birthday. Very cool.

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Songs about Dangerous Women

I made this CD of songs about dangerous women after a lunch-time conversation with friends about the difference between “devil woman” and “evil woman,” and how there are two different version of “devil woman” and how we were all getting the songs mixed up with “Black Magic Woman.” Then we started a list of all the songs we could think of… and this is where it ended up.

1 Black Betty – Leadbelly
2 Black Betty – Blow Soundtrack
3 Black Magic Woman – Santana
4 American Woman – Led Zepplin
5 Witchy Woman – Eagles
6 Devil Woman – Marty Robbins
7 Devil Woman – Cliff Richard
8 Evil Woman – ELO
9 Honky Tonk Woman – Rolling Stones
10 Hard Headed Woman – Elvis Presley
11 Black Magic Woman [live] – Santana
12 Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress – The Hollies
13 Hanky Panky Woman (Loretta Lynn Cover) — Kelly Hogan – Kelly Hogan
14 Devil With A Blue Dress On – Little Richard
15 Long Tall Sally – Little Richard
16 Dark Lady – Cher
17 Hot Child In The City – Nick Gilder
18 Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day
19 Maneater – Hall And Oates
20 Jolene – Dolly Parton
21 Rich Girl – Hall And Oates
22 Lucille – Kenny Rogers
23 Rio – Duran Duran
24 Bitch – Meredith Brooks
25 L.A. Woman – Billy Idol
26 Ah! Leah! – Donny Iris
27 American Woman – Lenny Kravitz
28 Billy Jean – Michael Jackson
29 Ruby Red Dress – Helen Reddy
30 Angie – Rolling Stones
31 Kentucky Woman – Neil Diamond
32 Delia’s Gone – Johnny Cash
33 Femme Fatale – Tom Tom Club

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‘Cambrian Explosion’

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Remember when you were a kid, and all of the sudden, for no apparent reason, you shot up several inches one summer? Like growth wasn’t a slow, glacial process but an abrupt one? Sort of like some of the theories on evolution that suggest mutations aren’t as gradual as we think. (A Cambrian Explosion, per Jim C.)

Although, when you look closely at the theories, the idea of a real ‘explosion’ is probably a misnomer:

The Cambrian explosion, or Cambrian radiation, was the relatively rapid appearance, around 542 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record.[1][2] This was accompanied by major diversification of other organisms.[note 1] Before about 580 million years ago,[note 2] most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies. Over the following 70 or 80 million years, the rate of evolution accelerated by an order of magnitude[note 3] and the diversity of life began to resemble that of today.[5] All present phyla appeared within the first 20 million years of the period,[6] with the exception of Bryozoa who made its earliest known appearance in the upper Cambrian.[7]

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