This week's sporkful

Friday, November 29, 2019

Concert Review: Cosmonox

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Cosmonox ended the show Saturday night, and it just got weirder. Both members of Cosmonox appeared to play different things, but they ...
Thursday, November 28, 2019

Concert Review: The Vardaman Ensemble

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The Vardaman Ensemble was the second band on the bill Saturday night at Kelly's Olympian. The theme of multi-instrumentalism con...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Concert Review: Dr. Something

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I previously reviewed Dr. Something in May 2015 ( https://sporkful.blogspot.com/2015/05/band-review-dr-something.html ).  It took me a whi...
Monday, November 18, 2019

Dealing with death

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I thought I would have a lot to say about death. Now I am not sure that I do, but I wanted to get this one quote out of the way. "It...
Friday, November 08, 2019

Concert Review: The Slants - Farewell Show

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I have been wanting to see The Slants live since I first reviewed them in 2017 . I recently saw that they were coming to Doug Fir Lounge wit...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

Concert Review: Camp Crush

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Camp Crush was second on the bill. They also have a nostalgic focus. With a love for the 80s, and married couple Jen Deale and Chris Spice...
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Concert Review: Shy Honey

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Shy Honey opened the Slants' farewell show Monday night at the Doug Fir Lounge. It was a good show. As a relatively new band, they cur...
Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Green on the vine

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I took this a few days ago as frost was coming. Tomatoes are kind of the easiest thing to grow, so often the only thing I am growing. Th...
Thursday, October 31, 2019

Monster songs

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The final October goal was to do a month of monster songs. I have done some other Halloween stuff. I have read some more macabre material ...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Costume selfies

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This also did not go as planned, but things still worked out. I was not sure I could come up with 31 different costume ideas that were doa...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Inktober review

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I know the month isn't over yet, but I had set some October goals, and this seems like a good time to go over them. I want to blog about...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Album Review: Nine by blink-182

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I loved this album! My personal favorite track is "Pin the Grenade", but "Heaven" and Darkside" are strong conten...
Monday, October 14, 2019

The moral economy of the present

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Friday brought me to tears. Things worked out, but with enormous stress. We recently took our dog in for her three year rabies vaccine. Th...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Band Review: The Brat

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The Brat was a classic punk band from East L.A. at a time when which side of L.A. you were on made a difference. They embraced their Chicano...

Album Review: Mania by Fall Out Boy

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In some of the earlier album reviews I have written about bands changing and growing, but also what still sounds familiar. Fall Out Boy ha...
Tuesday, October 01, 2019

October-Fest! (31 days of fall fun)

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I have never made any secret of my love for fall, and of Halloween specifically. I will be celebrating this month in three ways. First of ...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Band Review: The Zeros

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The first thing I should tell you is that there are three bands that go by "The Zeros" and they are all punk. This is not the Brit...
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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Album Review: 40 by Stray Cats

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Most of the album reviews will be for bands I have already reviewed, and usually that I have seen in concert. I came across a new release fr...
Thursday, September 19, 2019

Native American Heritage Month 2018: A side of paternalism

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One reason I want to move my reading to focus more on Native authors for November and Black authors for February, et cetera, is that in some...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Native American Heritage Month 2018: Children's books to break your heart

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Last year's reading covered a lot regarding education and residential schools too, but this year was largely built upon one list: http...
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