This week's sporkful
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Bon Jovi
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There are a few song choices where I was not sure whether I should use them, for one reason or another. Would using "The Holy City...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Ruptures -- between 1981 and 1995
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While the songs do not go in complete chronological order, the first twelve songs are essentially how my family became the unit that it was ...
Friday, January 23, 2026
Monstrous comics
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Other than continuing with scary novel series, trying to read as many ghost story picture books as possible, and looking up some remembered ...
Thursday, January 22, 2026
More about my father
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I want to write about the songs for the 10th and the 13th, but it may be hard to get right. January 10th last year was the day he died. ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Hooked on culture
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Looking over the timeline of the songs for January, there are two important ruptures. I wanted something to represent the time in between th...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
The flight of the Butterfly
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My father was not a good husband to my mother. His skills as a father could be questioned too, and that is not a completely new idea, but th...
Friday, January 16, 2026
A ghostly movie
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I try watching a different Halloween movie every year. They are mostly movies that are new to me, but an old one that I haven't seen for...
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Butterfly
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After two choruses from Verdi operas, I put in two of my mother's favorite songs from when she was a teenager in Italy, then one my fath...
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