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A good, old fashioned, pointless list
Song titles that are either really evocative or have nothing apparent to do with the song (and sometimes both). A lot of film scores (particularly Mark Mothersbaugh’s stuff) could really easily be on here, but I tried to limit it. It’s also not exhaustive, so feel free to add your favorite. Scott Get the Van,…
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Generations
Dad and Grant watching drag racing on YouTube, is a sentence I didn’t anticipate.
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Firefighter
This one is a hat! An actual hat!
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Coffee Fiend
Gotta have that tims.
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Haberdashery
Grant loves to wear weird shit on his head. He wore a strainer for the better part of an hour the other day.
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Frost
A SLUMBER did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees. Wordsworth, 1799
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Music man
Grant is obsessed with putting things on his head (see evidence here, here, and here); he doesn’t just keep things on we put on him (which really isn’t very often) – he actively finds things to put on his head. He wasn’t great at putting the headphones over his ears; he mostly got them on…
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Sunday funday
On Sunday we took the kids up to Buffalo and met Bob’s parents, my parents, and Bob’s sister’s family for lunch and presents for the twins, and then we took everyone to the Botanical Gardens. We had a lovely time, and it was a fun way to spend a relatively warm (but wet) November Sunday!
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Pregnant onion
This was the only edifying comment that I saw at the Buffalo Botanical Gardens, but if you’re only going to have one, this is the one to have.


