Tag: music
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OK Xer: Generation Gapz #13
When one reads as much news as we do, one is treated to viewpoints from across the generational spectrum. ONJ. Christine McVie. Julee Cruise. Loretta Lynn. In 2022 we mourned the passing of several songbirds of our youth. It feels like the world grows less original and less talented by the day. We predict in…
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Viva Charo!
Late one night we turned on our TV and caught the last 30 seconds of Charo appearing on a 70’s variety show. Amazingly, she looked the same in that old clip as she would a decade later in the “Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special”, and we’ll be damned if she’s aged a day in the 30+…
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
Our parents let us watch reruns of “Laugh-In” on Nick at Nite when we were, like, 9. Does this (partially) explain why we’re so fucking weird? You bet your sweet bippy. P.S. if you don’t know who is depicted in this little 8×10-inch cardboard painting, might we kindly suggest you look that up in your…
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A Pop Cultural Guide to COVID Hair
Our husband’s hair ran a gamut of pop cultural references over the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic. (We’ve cut our own hair for a decade, hence were unaffected by the lockdown in that respect.)