Happy Mother's Day. First celebrated in 1907 as a religious observance. Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national holiday in 1914. Quickly taken over by Hallmark cards and florists in the 1920s. Interesting Wikipedia read. I think the day has become too commercialized, but it's nice to give a shout-out to the moms. Here in America, it's a pre-Memorial Day warm-up. We'll be having a cookout today to celebrate. Enjoy.
Mother's Day is early, so I didn't think about Mother's Day when putting together the podcast. The artists all have mothers they love, I'm sure. So listen to Classix Nouveau, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Duran Duran, Aloe Blacc, Raphael Saadiq, Al Green, Sharon Van Etten, Holly Golightly, St. Vincent, the New Pornographers, Christine perfect, Van Morrison, and Neil Young. Please go to brennick.net to stream or download or download the podcast brennick.net. Thank you for tuning in.
"Do you like good music? That sweet soul music..." 1971 had some great soul music in addition to all of the other great music available to hear on your AM radio. It was still a time when all styles were played on the radio one after another. It didn't take much to hear a rock song, then country, then soul, then pop, and back to rock. My friend Greg said that because of that he had wide interests in music, as have I. In 1971, soul music was reaching an apex, which you can hear in today's podcast.
So let's go back and really listen to music from Jean Knight, Aretha Franklin, Joe Tex, Funkadelic, the Jackson 5, the Temptations, the Chi-Lites, the Stylistics, the Persuaders, Sly & the Family Stone, Bill Withers, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and War.
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The weather around here is changing over to summer-like conditions. We’re now hitting temperatures in the 70’s through the week. That’s nice. I hope that doesn’t mean that when we are in July and August that temperatures will continue to climb. I like temps in the 70’s – don’t you?
Looks like we’re going to open up – the CDC is relaxing the mask mandate “for those who are fully vaccinated.” We’ll see how that goes, but it’s a hopeful sign that we can return to whatever it is that is considered normal these days. Stay safe, though.
Lots of great music today on the podcast, so take some time and listen to Vigil, Joe Jackson, the Swingers. Hoodoo Gurus, Sloan, Teenage Fanclub, Sugar, the Guess Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buffalo Springfield, Mickey Dolenz, Caravan, John Cale, and Roxy Music.
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We’re on dogsitting duty today. The dogs we’re sitting don’t like being alone all day, so we’re going over to comfort them (and feed them). They’re the type of dogs that could not have food sitting around. Both of the dogs we owned could have food sitting in their bowls all day, but these two will eat everything seconds after the food bowl is put down.
Still, they’re good dogs. One’s a kindly yellow lab, mostly calm (except at feeding time), and one’s a nasty chihuahua that really bonded with me early on, and is generally good when I’m around (the barking at people and general nastiness around others I don’t like, though).
What’s your Sunday like? Hope you’ll be able to enjoy the day. It’s lovely around here. Why not spend some time listening to today’s podcast, which features the James Hunter Six, Jimmie Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Roomful of Blues, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Angelique Kidjo, Grace Jones, Nervous Eaters, the Pretenders, the Cars, the Rings, 10cc, Barracuda, and Mungo Jerry.
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Starting after the Civil War, Memorial Day was founded to honor soldiers who died serving their country here in the United States. Let us honor these soldiers – remember them at your cookout this weekend.
Today’s podcast includes some new music as well as some soul music from the 1970s, so listen to Paul Weller, the Bees, Cornershop, Beck, St. Vincent, Anna Calvi, P.J. Harvey, the Easybeats, the Pretty Things, the Yardbirds, the Creation, the Who, Hollywood Fantasy, the 9th Creation, and Blood Orange.
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In the before time, I was thinking about changes that I was going through as I was getting older. To me it was very gradual – I didn’t really feel any effects of getting older until the cartilage in my left knee went away. Then I started to feel old. I couldn’t run anymore, and getting up and downstairs was no longer easy. I used to bound up and down the stairs, then the pain took over and I slowed way up.
After the knee replacement, I am pretty much back to my old ways. The replacement couldn’t have been any easier, and everything is pretty much normal. Overall, I’m not sure that I feel all that differently than when I was younger. I think that’s got to be normal, right? Since any decline is usually gradual, we don’t see how much we might have changed physically through the years. Sure, my hair is white, I need ever-thickening lenses in my glasses to see clearly, but I don’t feel like I’m old. Does everyone agree with that assessment, or am I fooling myself?
Today’s podcast concentrates on older music (I listen to the music of my youth to stay young). So on today’s podcast, we can listen to Too Much Joy, Bruce Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, Kate Bush, Siouxsie & the Banshees, New Order, the Go-Go’s, XTC, World Party, Sinead O’Connor, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Small Faces.
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Yesterday, I had a CT scan of my heart to check for plaque buildup in the arteries. Afterwards, you are given what is known as an Agatston score for each of 4 arteries with 100-400 moderate and over 400 equaling severe heart disease. The woman who gave me my results said that she has actually seen numbers as high as the 4000s (!) Considering my pretty good health, but also considering that I’m in my 60s, I expected to have something on the low side, but what I didn’t expect was to have scored a ”perfect score” of “0” on all 4 arteries!
I kinda feel that I’ve aged quite a bit tho in the past three years with added stress and various uncertainties, but maybe it’s just an observance of others that’s mentally influenced my thoughts. I’m still expecting to find grey hairs that will someday overtake my brown/blond hair, and have hearing that will be diminished when I’ll need some help listening to some favorite album, but it hasn’t happened yet and I’m pretty thankful for my present situation - especially when I read about others who have certain “old age” problems even when they are, sometimes considerably, younger than I am.
Continuing with the year 1971, this set is a bunch of songs that were on the Billboard 100 during the year, presented semi-1971 style. I don’t speak in-between or over the songs, but they’re just presented without a thought of any semblance of order. Just like 1971. You’d hear a country song followed by a soul tune. Why not? BTW, there’s a book out called the Heartaches by the Numbers: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles. I put this together before hearing about the book, but the #1 single according to the book is the next to last song played in this podcast.
So think back to a simpler time and listen to Badfinger, Tom Jones, Brewer & Shipley, Five Man Electrical Band, Ringo Starr, Jerry Reed, Three Dog Night, the Undisputed Truth, the Grass Roots, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tommy James, the Fortunes, Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, the Bee Gees, Paul McCartney, Sammi Smith, and Cat Stevens.
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It’s too nice to be sitting around and writing today. Let’s just enjoy the day (I hope the weather is beautiful everywhere today). So on today’s pod, we mess around with the Call, the Connells, the Fixx, INXS, Jethro Tull, Family, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, Alex Little & the Suspicious Minds, the Get Up Kids, Superchunk, T. Rex, David Bowie, and Roxy Music.
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@bremble - I can totally agree with your comments from June 6th above. Age has crept up on me too, especially over the last couple of years or so. We've been on holiday in Scotland, staying in four cottages. I've realised that showers over bath can be quite difficult for me!! I am sure that it is impacting the music I play too. Recently I've been buying CDs from, mainly, ebay of LPs I had years ago (generally cheaper than lossless downloads!)
We’re heading out on vacation today. Going to North Conway for a week of fun with my son, his wife, and the grandchild. Will update you on how it went next week.
This week’s podcast has a raft of favorites, including Strawbs, Richard & Linda Thompson, John Martyn, Crowded House, Squeeze, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller, Wall of Voodoo, Dr. Feelgood, Dave Edmunds, NRBQ, Valerie June, Yola, Jenny Lewis, and Elvis Costello.
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Just got back from vacation. What a great week. Eighteen-month-olds are fascinating. It was interesting to observe throughout the week. Owen has a great sense of humor and he loves his grandpa. I’m the favorite.
Still, it’s funny. He loves saying no to things he doesn’t like, but if you say no to him it’s pretty much tantrum time. He tried to shove more food in his mouth than he could chew and swallow, and lunch went from fun to tears very quickly. I had to explain that it wasn’t that he couldn’t eat the food, but that he had to do it piece by piece and not all at once. He also didn’t want to hold hands crossing the street. Isn’t it a little early for that? When we told him he had to hold hands crossing the street he broke down again. Even after we told him that we weren’t saying that he wasn’t a good walker, but it was for safety’s sake, he wasn’t buying. He got over it, but it’s going to happen more often.
I’d talk more about the vacation, but it’s morning and he’s up. His parents aren’t, so having grandparents who are early risers helps out the parents who want to sleep in but don’t ever get much of a chance to.
Today’s podcast was pre-taped before vacation to give me a break this morning. So listen to the Chills, Liz Phair, Cowboys International, Buddy Guy, Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Whitley, Delbert McClinton, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Beau Brummels, the Turtles, the Mamas and the Papas, the MC5, the New York Dolls, the Soft Boys, and T-Bone Burnett. Please go to brennick.net to stream or download or download the podcast brennick.net. Thank you for tuning in.
Happy 4th of July weekend! What’re you doing for the holiday? We finally have a quiet weekend – had all of our fun last week and weekend, with vacation with my son, daughter, and grandson, a nephew’s wedding, and hosting my brother-in-law and his wife through Tuesday. We need to breathe.
The weather, which may hit 60 degrees today, has not been great for the beginning of summer. It’s been gray and rainy since Friday morning. Monday is supposed to be nice. What happened with the 100 degree days (I prefer the 60 degree days, to be truthful)?
Look, it’s an Independence Day-themed podcast, with David Byrne, the Love Language, Kerry Kearney, Insect Trust, Pousette-Dart Band, 10cc, Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren, Cheap Trick, Shoes, Dwight Twilley, the Undertones, Don Dixon, R.E.M., and the Beautiful South. Please go to brennick.net to stream or download or download the podcast brennick.net. Thank you for tuning in.
I’ve been a comics reader for as long as I can remember. I loved looking at the comics as a child and have continued to read them today. They still put out a (classic) Peanuts strip daily. I have the first few volumes of the complete strips from the beginning and still chuckle at Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
When I was in college I had a friend tell me that he read Apartment3G every day. Apartment 3G? Wasn’t that one of those slow-moving soapy comic strips? Yes, it was, and so I started reading it every day, too. Oh, I read it ironically, but it still became part of my daily viewing. What’s that Professor up to today?
In fact, I pretty much read it until it stopped publication in 2015. To tell the truth, I now read more soapy comics than I do “funny” comic strips. Judge Parker, Mark Trail, Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, and the Phantom are now on my daily reading list. So if you’ll pardon me, the Sunday (mostly recaps of the week’s strips) are awaiting me. See you in the funny papers.
Today’s podcast is all over the place, and a perfect way to start your day, with John Hiatt, Los Lobos, Delbert McClinton, Billy Boy Arnold, Pokey LaFarge, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Allan Toussaint, Neil Young, Richard & Linda Thompson, John Martyn, the Rolling Stones, the Blues Project, and John Mayall.
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Quick post today. Heading down to the Boston Aquarium to take my grandson to see the fish and penguins. Wonder if there are any sharks – they are Owen’s favorites.
No shark will eat today’s podcast, with Jonathan Richman, Light & Motion, Automatic, Squeeze, Alex Little & the Suspicious Minds, Pretenders, DiVinyls, the Bangles, My Morning Jacket, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, the Mavericks, Letters to Cleo, the Subways, and Tribe.
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It’s going to rain here today…again. We’ve had a wet summer, not that it’s helped the dwindling water supplies in the area. Most towns around here still have a mandatory water ban, as the rains have still not raised the water tables enough. We don’t live in the desert southwest, either.
Saturday was nice, so my wife and I went for a hike, and I mowed the lawn like a good suburban homeowner. With rain on the weekends and visiting the grandson, the lawn had started to get long and unruly. I like to leave the lawn a little long and not like a putting green, as longer grass doesn’t die quite as fast. If it gets as dry in August, the grass will take a hit (as it always does).
To help with this rainy weather, I’ve put together this podcast for you to listen to. So let’s hear from Concrete Blonde, Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Doors, Talking Heads, Adrian Belew, Peter Gabriel, Gil Scott-Heron, and Terry Callier today.
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Can you give us some info about some of the steps you take to get your podcast from your desktop to, eventually, iTunes/Apple? (I think you mentioned that it's available thru them?) I've been considering this and wondering if you're using a special service? Podcasts that end up with iTunes or some other major location, I'm told have "fans" that usually expect the uploads to be on a regular basis so as to not keep them confused about when you may be offering new ones. Anyway, just curious that it being music-based that there may be different "rules" for doing this.
Sonic Sunday? To go with Manic Monday? I’m a fan of both the Bangles and Prince, but not that song. Not sure that Sundays are my fun day, either. Now I’ll have that song in my head for days. I’d like to give it away – maybe airing it out here will help.
Right now it’s a Roy Brooks Sunday. Just picked up Understanding with Woody Shaw on trumpet. Great stuff. Jazz to start the day. Maybe this will be my fun day after all.
I have some fun on today’s podcast, with the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Pixies, Sugar, Sebadoh, Purple Mountains, Wussy, Lydia Loveless, the Kinks, the Who, Faces, Ian Hunter, Barbara Lewis, the Dells, Marvin Gaye, and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas.
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Hi, Rostasi, not sure how much or how deep you want to get. It's been 7 years since I started the podcast, so I've got to cut through a bunch of cobwebs.
I'm going to assume that you've got a podcast that you have completed and not how I put it together. I think you need a webpage to host the original feed, which was what I wanted to do anyway. There has to be somewhere that Apple Podcasts go to to get the feed.
The next steps are the fuzzy ones. I signed up with Feedburner (which no longer is taking new podcasts - sorry). I think that helped establish a feed that was ready to go to Apple. Then you go to an Apple podcast feed place and establish the podcast. From there, everything should be automatic. Every time I post, the feed is sent to Apple who loads it up on the podcast app. With Feedburner, it also goes to a bunch of other podcast apps. Not sure if that's an extra that they offered or if other apps just grab whatever is available on the Apple feed.
A quick search got me to two sites that help get podcasts uploaded - Buzzsprout and Podbean. You might want to see what's out there. Feedburner was free - not sure if the other sites are free - the two sites I listed have pricing that includes website hosting, which starts at free and goes up from there.
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I’m already doing shows for an actual radio station and I have those 100 Mixcloud mixes, so doing the show is no problem. …and, yes, I can always put the shows on my website so that Apple can have a place to look, but I didn’t know if you had to have some kind of intermediary to get it to Apple and others. It sounds like these sites like Podbean and Feedburner are there to advertise to a wide(r) group of podcast apps (and, probably, to automate the process?), so that’s kind of a decision that I need to make: how interested am I in spreading the word about my shows. Also, I have to believe that since your podcast is music-based that there needs to be a connection with these podcast sites that have to pay regular rates to BMI, ASCAP, etc. I’ve often wondered about that connection with music podcasts as opposed to talk ones where you personally “own” everything you podcast. Ok, well, great! Thanks a bunch! I’ll do the research and see some more options.
I’m seeing pretty good reasons why it’s actually better to not use an alternative service:
”Should I switch to a FeedBurner competitor / alternative service? – We see no value on handing over your intellectual property (aka your feed address) to any third-party service. If you own your own website domain (e.g example.com), it is recommended that your podcast feed also reside on that domain (e.g. example.com/feed/podcast/). This gives you full control of your podcast syndication.”
Also, I’m noticing that omnifoo is using “Podbean,” but I’m thinking more of using something like “Seriously Simple Podacsting” that links in with your WordPress site. Anyway, still doing the research.
Yeah, it looks like Feedburner is wobbly now, at best. ...and that link I sent hasn't anything good to say about them. Anyway, I don't expect my podcast to get all that much traffic, so I'll probably just host it directly on my website and use SSP in order to spread it out a bit.
I never questioned what it meant by the dog days of summer. I knew that was when it was really hot, but I also knew that they were probably the worst days for dogs. It was the only time my husky was logy.
But the dog days are named for Sirius, the dog star, and the period it covers is July 3 to August 15 (or so). It’s when the dog star becomes visible just before sunrise (helical rising) each year. I know that it means the hottest, worst part of the year, which I always assumed was just August. Those days always seemed to be the hottest when I was growing up. And in true fashion, the weather report for the end of this week is barking – mid to high 80’s with high humidity. Woof.
On today’s podcast, we aren’t going to the dogs. We do have a couple of new tracks to go with some classics, with David Crosby, Donald Fagen, Ambrosia, Veruca Salt, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Rodrigo Amarante, Fado, Neko Case, Cowbell, Allison Russell, and Barrence Whitfield.
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The weather around here is changing over to summer-like conditions. We’re now hitting temperatures in the 70’s through the week. That’s nice. I hope that doesn’t mean that when we are in July and August that temperatures will continue to climb. I like temps in the 70’s – don’t you?
Looks like we’re going to open up – the CDC is relaxing the mask mandate “for those who are fully vaccinated.” We’ll see how that goes, but it’s a hopeful sign that we can return to whatever it is that is considered normal these days. Stay safe, though.
Lots of great music today on the podcast, so take some time and listen to Vigil, Joe Jackson, the Swingers. Hoodoo Gurus, Sloan, Teenage Fanclub, Sugar, the Guess Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Buffalo Springfield, Mickey Dolenz, Caravan, John Cale, and Roxy Music.
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We’re on dogsitting duty today. The dogs we’re sitting don’t like being alone all day, so we’re going over to comfort them (and feed them). They’re the type of dogs that could not have food sitting around. Both of the dogs we owned could have food sitting in their bowls all day, but these two will eat everything seconds after the food bowl is put down.
Still, they’re good dogs. One’s a kindly yellow lab, mostly calm (except at feeding time), and one’s a nasty chihuahua that really bonded with me early on, and is generally good when I’m around (the barking at people and general nastiness around others I don’t like, though).
What’s your Sunday like? Hope you’ll be able to enjoy the day. It’s lovely around here. Why not spend some time listening to today’s podcast, which features the James Hunter Six, Jimmie Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Roomful of Blues, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Angelique Kidjo, Grace Jones, Nervous Eaters, the Pretenders, the Cars, the Rings, 10cc, Barracuda, and Mungo Jerry.
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Starting after the Civil War, Memorial Day was founded to honor soldiers who died serving their country here in the United States. Let us honor these soldiers – remember them at your cookout this weekend.
Today’s podcast includes some new music as well as some soul music from the 1970s, so listen to Paul Weller, the Bees, Cornershop, Beck, St. Vincent, Anna Calvi, P.J. Harvey, the Easybeats, the Pretty Things, the Yardbirds, the Creation, the Who, Hollywood Fantasy, the 9th Creation, and Blood Orange.
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In the before time, I was thinking about changes that I was going through as I was getting older. To me it was very gradual – I didn’t really feel any effects of getting older until the cartilage in my left knee went away. Then I started to feel old. I couldn’t run anymore, and getting up and downstairs was no longer easy. I used to bound up and down the stairs, then the pain took over and I slowed way up.
After the knee replacement, I am pretty much back to my old ways. The replacement couldn’t have been any easier, and everything is pretty much normal. Overall, I’m not sure that I feel all that differently than when I was younger. I think that’s got to be normal, right? Since any decline is usually gradual, we don’t see how much we might have changed physically through the years. Sure, my hair is white, I need ever-thickening lenses in my glasses to see clearly, but I don’t feel like I’m old. Does everyone agree with that assessment, or am I fooling myself?
Today’s podcast concentrates on older music (I listen to the music of my youth to stay young). So on today’s podcast, we can listen to Too Much Joy, Bruce Springsteen, Thin Lizzy, Kate Bush, Siouxsie & the Banshees, New Order, the Go-Go’s, XTC, World Party, Sinead O’Connor, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and Small Faces.
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Afterwards, you are given what is known as an Agatston score for each of 4 arteries
with 100-400 moderate and over 400 equaling severe heart disease. The woman who
gave me my results said that she has actually seen numbers as high as the 4000s (!)
Considering my pretty good health, but also considering that I’m in my 60s, I expected
to have something on the low side, but what I didn’t expect was to have scored a
”perfect score” of “0” on all 4 arteries!
I kinda feel that I’ve aged quite a bit tho in the past three years with added stress and
various uncertainties, but maybe it’s just an observance of others that’s mentally
influenced my thoughts. I’m still expecting to find grey hairs that will someday
overtake my brown/blond hair, and have hearing that will be diminished when I’ll
need some help listening to some favorite album, but it hasn’t happened yet and
I’m pretty thankful for my present situation - especially when I read about others
who have certain “old age” problems even when they are, sometimes considerably,
younger than I am.
Continuing with the year 1971, this set is a bunch of songs that were on the Billboard 100 during the year, presented semi-1971 style. I don’t speak in-between or over the songs, but they’re just presented without a thought of any semblance of order. Just like 1971. You’d hear a country song followed by a soul tune. Why not? BTW, there’s a book out called the Heartaches by the Numbers: Country Music’s 500 Greatest Singles. I put this together before hearing about the book, but the #1 single according to the book is the next to last song played in this podcast.
So think back to a simpler time and listen to Badfinger, Tom Jones, Brewer & Shipley, Five Man Electrical Band, Ringo Starr, Jerry Reed, Three Dog Night, the Undisputed Truth, the Grass Roots, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tommy James, the Fortunes, Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose, the Bee Gees, Paul McCartney, Sammi Smith, and Cat Stevens.
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It’s too nice to be sitting around and writing today. Let’s just enjoy the day (I hope the weather is beautiful everywhere today). So on today’s pod, we mess around with the Call, the Connells, the Fixx, INXS, Jethro Tull, Family, Ten Years After, Led Zeppelin, Alex Little & the Suspicious Minds, the Get Up Kids, Superchunk, T. Rex, David Bowie, and Roxy Music.
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We’re heading out on vacation today. Going to North Conway for a week of fun with my son, his wife, and the grandchild. Will update you on how it went next week.
This week’s podcast has a raft of favorites, including Strawbs, Richard & Linda Thompson, John Martyn, Crowded House, Squeeze, Billy Bragg, Paul Weller, Wall of Voodoo, Dr. Feelgood, Dave Edmunds, NRBQ, Valerie June, Yola, Jenny Lewis, and Elvis Costello.
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Just got back from vacation. What a great week. Eighteen-month-olds are fascinating. It was interesting to observe throughout the week. Owen has a great sense of humor and he loves his grandpa. I’m the favorite.
Still, it’s funny. He loves saying no to things he doesn’t like, but if you say no to him it’s pretty much tantrum time. He tried to shove more food in his mouth than he could chew and swallow, and lunch went from fun to tears very quickly. I had to explain that it wasn’t that he couldn’t eat the food, but that he had to do it piece by piece and not all at once. He also didn’t want to hold hands crossing the street. Isn’t it a little early for that? When we told him he had to hold hands crossing the street he broke down again. Even after we told him that we weren’t saying that he wasn’t a good walker, but it was for safety’s sake, he wasn’t buying. He got over it, but it’s going to happen more often.
I’d talk more about the vacation, but it’s morning and he’s up. His parents aren’t, so having grandparents who are early risers helps out the parents who want to sleep in but don’t ever get much of a chance to.
Today’s podcast was pre-taped before vacation to give me a break this morning. So listen to the Chills, Liz Phair, Cowboys International, Buddy Guy, Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Whitley, Delbert McClinton, the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, the Beau Brummels, the Turtles, the Mamas and the Papas, the MC5, the New York Dolls, the Soft Boys, and T-Bone Burnett. Please go to brennick.net to stream or download or download the podcast brennick.net. Thank you for tuning in.
Happy 4th of July weekend! What’re you doing for the holiday? We finally have a quiet weekend – had all of our fun last week and weekend, with vacation with my son, daughter, and grandson, a nephew’s wedding, and hosting my brother-in-law and his wife through Tuesday. We need to breathe.
The weather, which may hit 60 degrees today, has not been great for the beginning of summer. It’s been gray and rainy since Friday morning. Monday is supposed to be nice. What happened with the 100 degree days (I prefer the 60 degree days, to be truthful)?
Look, it’s an Independence Day-themed podcast, with David Byrne, the Love Language, Kerry Kearney, Insect Trust, Pousette-Dart Band, 10cc, Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren, Cheap Trick, Shoes, Dwight Twilley, the Undertones, Don Dixon, R.E.M., and the Beautiful South. Please go to brennick.net to stream or download or download the podcast brennick.net. Thank you for tuning in.
I’ve been a comics reader for as long as I can remember. I loved looking at the comics as a child and have continued to read them today. They still put out a (classic) Peanuts strip daily. I have the first few volumes of the complete strips from the beginning and still chuckle at Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
When I was in college I had a friend tell me that he read Apartment3G every day. Apartment 3G? Wasn’t that one of those slow-moving soapy comic strips? Yes, it was, and so I started reading it every day, too. Oh, I read it ironically, but it still became part of my daily viewing. What’s that Professor up to today?
In fact, I pretty much read it until it stopped publication in 2015. To tell the truth, I now read more soapy comics than I do “funny” comic strips. Judge Parker, Mark Trail, Mary Worth, Rex Morgan, and the Phantom are now on my daily reading list. So if you’ll pardon me, the Sunday (mostly recaps of the week’s strips) are awaiting me. See you in the funny papers.
Today’s podcast is all over the place, and a perfect way to start your day, with John Hiatt, Los Lobos, Delbert McClinton, Billy Boy Arnold, Pokey LaFarge, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Allan Toussaint, Neil Young, Richard & Linda Thompson, John Martyn, the Rolling Stones, the Blues Project, and John Mayall.
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http://www.comicstriparchive.com/ (interesting blog)
https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/index.php?cid=6 (classic)
https://www.comicskingdom.com/
That should keep you busy!
Quick post today. Heading down to the Boston Aquarium to take my grandson to see the fish and penguins. Wonder if there are any sharks – they are Owen’s favorites.
No shark will eat today’s podcast, with Jonathan Richman, Light & Motion, Automatic, Squeeze, Alex Little & the Suspicious Minds, Pretenders, DiVinyls, the Bangles, My Morning Jacket, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, the Mavericks, Letters to Cleo, the Subways, and Tribe.
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It’s going to rain here today…again. We’ve had a wet summer, not that it’s helped the dwindling water supplies in the area. Most towns around here still have a mandatory water ban, as the rains have still not raised the water tables enough. We don’t live in the desert southwest, either.
Saturday was nice, so my wife and I went for a hike, and I mowed the lawn like a good suburban homeowner. With rain on the weekends and visiting the grandson, the lawn had started to get long and unruly. I like to leave the lawn a little long and not like a putting green, as longer grass doesn’t die quite as fast. If it gets as dry in August, the grass will take a hit (as it always does).
To help with this rainy weather, I’ve put together this podcast for you to listen to. So let’s hear from Concrete Blonde, Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Doors, Talking Heads, Adrian Belew, Peter Gabriel, Gil Scott-Heron, and Terry Callier today.
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Sonic Sunday? To go with Manic Monday? I’m a fan of both the Bangles and Prince, but not that song. Not sure that Sundays are my fun day, either. Now I’ll have that song in my head for days. I’d like to give it away – maybe airing it out here will help.
Right now it’s a Roy Brooks Sunday. Just picked up Understanding with Woody Shaw on trumpet. Great stuff. Jazz to start the day. Maybe this will be my fun day after all.
I have some fun on today’s podcast, with the Jesus & Mary Chain, the Pixies, Sugar, Sebadoh, Purple Mountains, Wussy, Lydia Loveless, the Kinks, the Who, Faces, Ian Hunter, Barbara Lewis, the Dells, Marvin Gaye, and Martha Reeves & the Vandellas.
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I'm going to assume that you've got a podcast that you have completed and not how I put it together. I think you need a webpage to host the original feed, which was what I wanted to do anyway. There has to be somewhere that Apple Podcasts go to to get the feed.
The next steps are the fuzzy ones. I signed up with Feedburner (which no longer is taking new podcasts - sorry). I think that helped establish a feed that was ready to go to Apple. Then you go to an Apple podcast feed place and establish the podcast. From there, everything should be automatic. Every time I post, the feed is sent to Apple who loads it up on the podcast app. With Feedburner, it also goes to a bunch of other podcast apps. Not sure if that's an extra that they offered or if other apps just grab whatever is available on the Apple feed.
A quick search got me to two sites that help get podcasts uploaded - Buzzsprout and Podbean. You might want to see what's out there. Feedburner was free - not sure if the other sites are free - the two sites I listed have pricing that includes website hosting, which starts at free and goes up from there.
”Should I switch to a FeedBurner competitor / alternative service? – We see no value on handing over your intellectual property (aka your feed address) to any third-party service. If you own your own website domain (e.g example.com), it is recommended that your podcast feed also reside on that domain (e.g. example.com/feed/podcast/). This gives you full control of your podcast syndication.”
https://blubrry.com/manual/syndicating-your-podcast-rss-feeds/feedburner-for-podcasting/
...and that link I sent hasn't anything good to say about them.
Anyway, I don't expect my podcast to get all that much traffic,
so I'll probably just host it directly on my website and use SSP
in order to spread it out a bit.
I never questioned what it meant by the dog days of summer. I knew that was when it was really hot, but I also knew that they were probably the worst days for dogs. It was the only time my husky was logy.
But the dog days are named for Sirius, the dog star, and the period it covers is July 3 to August 15 (or so). It’s when the dog star becomes visible just before sunrise (helical rising) each year. I know that it means the hottest, worst part of the year, which I always assumed was just August. Those days always seemed to be the hottest when I was growing up. And in true fashion, the weather report for the end of this week is barking – mid to high 80’s with high humidity. Woof.
On today’s podcast, we aren’t going to the dogs. We do have a couple of new tracks to go with some classics, with David Crosby, Donald Fagen, Ambrosia, Veruca Salt, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, Rodrigo Amarante, Fado, Neko Case, Cowbell, Allison Russell, and Barrence Whitfield.
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