Rambling Rhoads: 2015-08-30

As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Shuffle #68 (September 5, 2015)

Kid – The Pretenders

Calgary, My Home Away From Home – Schooner Fare

Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey – Paul McCartney

Party Doll – Mary Chapin Carpenter

Love Song – Sara Bareilles

Stolen Car – Bruce Springsteen

Rosalita – Bruce Springsteen

Monday, August 31, 2015

August 29, 2015 – Trenton Thunder 3, Altoona Curve 1 – Peoples Natural Gas Field

http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20150829&content_id=146184048&fext=.jsp&vkey=recap&sid=t452

Umpires: HP: Dan Merzel. 1B: Brian Peterson. 3B: Alex Tosi.

Weather: 83 degrees, clear.

Wind: 9 mph, Varies.

T: 2:36.

Att: 8,120.

Seventh-inning stretch song: Just “God Bless America” (Kate Smith recording) and “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”

Highlights – nice post-game fireworks show for the large, appreciative crowd … very good grilled chicken sandwich … excellent late summer weather … Curve scored in the bottom of the seventh on an Adam Frazier double and a Max Moroff single to avert the shutout

Other –Thunder nicked starter and LP Matt Benedict for single runs in the 3^rd, 5^th, and 7^th … Curve stranded 12 base runners