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Video Fridays: Van Morrison – 1973
I’ve got a real treat for this week’s Video Fridays installment! An Irish singer-songwriter I’m fond of, and who I’ve written about here before, Glen Hansard, tweeted this clip today of his fellow...
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Why We Love, And Even Need, Photos & Videos Of Interspecies Animal Friends
From 1984’s comedy classic, Ghostbusters (my emphasis added in bold in the last line of dialogue): Peter Venkman: Well, you can believe Mr. Pecker… Walter Peck: My name is “Peck.” Venkman: Or you could...
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Fat Bikes Go Electric
When I first heard someone refer to a ‘fat bike’ a couple of years ago, the first thing that popped into my mind, as I’m sure it did for many beer drinkers, was Fat Tire Amber Ale from New Belgium...
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Video Fridays: Donovan
There’s a time to rock, such as last week’s post featuring the music of The Who. And, there is a time — such as a sleep-deprived Friday, after an exhausting, stressful week — to listen to a simple,...
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Eyecatchers: Upcycling: Allied Arts Recycled Art Exhibit
It’s been ages since my last Upcycling installment, but this weekend I visited an exhibit at a local art gallery that focused entirely on pieces made from recycled materials, and I just had to share....
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Alabama Shakes: The Real Deal
When I first heard the reverb-drenched, Soul-infused rock & roll of Alabama Shakes‘ 2012 debut, Boys & Girls, I was instantly hooked. This band just seemed to come out of nowhere, fully formed...
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Video Fridays: Double Hit of Rickenbacker 12-String Cover Song Goodness
I’m pretty confident in guessing that most guitar players who have stuck with the instrument for a number of years have at least tried playing a 12-string guitar, and from my experience as a guitarist,...
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Video Fridays: Welcome to Late Night TV, Jon Batiste!
There are traditionally, with a few exceptions, three primary personality roles in the late night talk show format: Host, Sidekick, and Bandleader. Sometimes there’s a sidekick and a bandleader, like...
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Late Night TV Bandleader/Sidekick: Part II
This morning I posted this week’s Video Fridays installment, in which I touched on the late night TV talk show Host, Bandleader, and Sidekick roles, in response to the announcement yesterday that Jon...
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Eyecatchers: 2015 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
If, like me, your family had a subscription to National Geographic Magazine when you were a kid, before you learned to love reading, one of the reasons you LOVED the publication was because you didn’t...
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Headline of the Day: Not Your Ordinary Organ Transplant
It’s difficult to know where to start with this Headline of the Day installment, so perhaps I’ll just get right to it. Dear readers, especially all you guys out there, brace yourselves: Penis...
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Fare Thee Well, Grateful Dead
So, last night, at Soldier Field in Chicago, the Grateful Dead played what was billed as their last ever concert, which is to say that the “core four”, the four surviving members of the original band —...
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If My Home Is Ever Raided By The FBI, Can I Be Treated Like Jared?
Whether it’s white privilege, our country’s soft-on-white-collar-crime tendencies, or something else entirely, in all my years of reading the news I’ve never seen anything like the softball coverage of...
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Oh, England. You’re No Fun Anymore!
If you are a heterosexual guy and you reached puberty when I did, in the 1970s, and you were lucky enough, as I was, to have a public television station that, late at night, would play reruns of Monty...
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Video Fridays: Pavement
So, it’s happened again. I’ve written before about how I fancy myself quite the student of music, and yet, despite my diligent efforts to know what’s going on, I occasionally discover that a particular...
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Video Fridays: Happy 50th Birthday, Highway 61 Revisited!
This is quite the week for masterpiece Rock & Roll album anniversaries! Tuesday, as I mentioned in that day’s post, was the 40th anniversary of Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run. And this coming...
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Eyecatchers: The Street Art Of Oakoak
Hey, everyone! Fish & Bicycles is back on the air after a particularly busy period paying the bills, so to speak. So, let’s kick things off with an Eyecatchers installment, featuring the Street Art...
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To Man Bun, Or Not To Man Bun?
When I first heard my 17-year old son refer to some guy’s hairstyle as a “man bun”, I chuckled heartily. Little did I know at the time just how much of a thing man buns are! See, I’ve lived here in...
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Tweet of the Day: @TheOnion
Because Monday. Bisquick Unveils Sprawling State-Of-The-Art Silicon Valley Campus https://t.co/E2F5exHVH0 pic.twitter.com/G5eM6BIoBr — The Onion (@TheOnion) October 24, 2015 The Pros: Reinert said the...
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Man Buns Revisited
Last month, I published a post titled To Man Bun, Or Not To Man Bun?, and the title was clearly a rhetorical question, cuz I’d already cut my hair to man-bun-prohibitive shortness. Now, the Man Bun...
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