Ow

Making corrections to your dissertation footnotes is not good for the health of your back. Just in case you were wondering.

Preschooler with a Thousand Faces

This book is a current favorite with Wild Thing. There are a slew of these "trickster" books for kids, and I'm planning to look for a few more.

Oddly, though, I noticed this morning that the author, Gerald McDermott, is a consultant for the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Who knew that such an entity existed? Apparently they're trying to indoctrinate my son with dangerous ideas about comparative mythology.

Anyway, the book is good. We may go for this one next.

Friday Random Ten: Strange Forms of Life

1. "Strange Form of Life"--Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Letting Go.
2. "It's a Curse"--Wolf Parade, Apologies to the Queen Mary.
3. "Darkness on the Edge of Town"--Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town.
4. "It'll Never Happen Again"--Tim Hardin, Person to Person.
5. "Riley"--Joe Armstrong and Group, Southern Journey, Vol. 13: Earliest Times.
6. "Meaulnes"--Palace Brothers, Days in the Wake.
7. "Peg & Awl"--Carolina Tar Heels, Anthology Of American Folk Music, Vol. 1A: Ballads.
8. "I Believe"--Louis Armstrong, Blues for Yesterday.
9. "Road Movie to Berlin"--They Might Be Giants, Flood.
10. "Maine Island Lovers"--Okkervil River, Down the River of Golden Dreams.

Back, sort of

Busy busy busy. I almost forgot about this whole blog thing. But, since I'm here.

Tonight we went to a concert in a local park. They're free, and there's one every week all summer. Tonight was a local country band, mostly doing covers of classics by George Jones and Johnny Cash and that sort of thing.

On the way home, we checked in with Wild Thing. "So, did you like the music?"

WT pauses. "Yeah." Another pause. "Was it Japanese?"

I guess he needs a more thorough introduction into American musical genres.