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Posting about: books, food, history, music, politics, religion, sports…and anything else that comes to mind. https://masscommons.wordpress.com/
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Morning Song - Landmines by Paola Bennet "...wrenching, thrilling, and, in its own way, terrifying..." #ChekhovsRifle h/t: NMH masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/m...

Morning Song - If I Have a Ticket Lord Can I Ride by Rev. T. E. Weems #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/m...

Morning Song - Skeeter #Blues by Regina Carter Enjoy. #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/m...

Afternoon Song - Walk of Life by @direstraits77.bsky.social "And after all the violence and double talk, There's just a song in all the trouble and the strife, You do the walk, yeah, you do the...." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/a...

Morning Song - Darktown Strutters Ball by Alberta Hunter "Gonna dance out both my shoes (have mercy), When they play "Jelly Roll Blues", Tomorrow night at the...." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs h/t: @questlove.bsky.social masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/m...

Morning Song - Good Rockin' Tonight by Roy Brown "Well I heard the news..." #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/m...

Morning Song - I'm On Fire by @phoebebridgers1.bsky.social "...keeps all of the original’s burning desire while revealing new depths of the terrifying madness partially concealed by its slick pop production." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs h/t: NMH masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/m...

Morning Song - Hungarian Rhapsody #6 by Franz #Liszt ft. Martha Argerich "Who needs caffeine to start a Monday morning?" masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/m...

Afternoon Song - Thank Him Enough by The Como Mamas "You don't know how good God is to me...." #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/a...

Habemus Papam: Initial Reactions to the Election of Pope Leo XIV "Bring on the global church." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/h...

Dan Simons has thoughts: "I left at the end of the night with #money in my pocket; it was great." "As long as the prize is worth the path, the path isn't the problem." "I wish I had learned...that stock markets crash." on #MoneyUnplugged Podcast with @chrishillalx.bsky.social

Morning Song - Sho' Nuff Did by Mel Lewis & Friends Enjoy. #jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/m...

Morning Song - Machine Gun by The Commodores "Would it sound the same without the matching bejeweled and befeathered royal blue jump suits and the #SoulTrain dancers? Yes. But would it be as good?" #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/m...

Why #David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization & Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement by Marshall Ganz "...superb, illuminating, and inspiring..." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/w...

Morning Song - Raspberry Beret by Prince "...and if it was warm she wouldn't wear much more." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/m...

Morning Song - Gatemouth #Boogie by Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown "...I just got in your town, If you don't like my style, I will not hang around." #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/07/m...

Morning Song - Nazareth by @joyoladokun.bsky.social "Part Guthrie, part Dylan, part Springsteen, part Chapman, and wholly her own...." "If there's no Nazareth on earth, what's a child of God to do?" h/t: NMH masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m...

Morning Song - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Chet Atkins "...understated and delightful..." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs #country masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/m...

Morning Song - Thank You Lord by Rev. Maceo Woods & the Christian Tabernacle Choir "...for saving my soul, for making me whole." #Gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/m...

Morning Song - Tricotism by Jimmy Cleveland "Cleveland and his bandmates play so smoothly you could almost miss how brilliant—both individually and collectively—they are." Enjoy. #Jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/m...

"We were both on a budget so we dated cheaply...(and) learned it was possible to have a good life...without a lot of money." Tobin Anthony on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Morning Song - No Diggity by Prince & the New Power Generation "...serving up that good, raw, uncut #funk..." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs h/t: @kendav.bsky.social masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/m...

Morning Song - First of May by @jamestaylor-com.bsky.social "Things are beginning, Our side is winning, Hip hip hooray." #MayDay masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/m...

Morning Song - Driftin' #Blues by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers ft. Charles Brown “I’m drifting and drifting, like a ship out on the sea….” masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/m...

Morning Song - Hush by Deep Purple "I thought I heard her calling my name now...." #FirstRuleOfCoverSongs masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/29/m...

Morning Song - Opus 8, No. 1 (Allegro Moderato) by Fanny #Mendelssohn ft. Sarah Collins #SongsWithoutWords #instrumental masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/m...

Morning Song - #Mercy, Mercy, Mercy by Willie Mitchell @pontifexes.bsky.social Francis, #RIP. masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/m...

"I started thinking about charitable #giving like I would think about #investing. What could I do where my dollars would go as far as possible?" Bill Mann on #MoneyUnplugged podcast with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Morning Song - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by Ma Rainey “...both definitely *is* and certainly *isn’t* about what you’re thinking. (After all, where’s the fun in life if words can’t mean two things at once?)" #jazz #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/m...

Morning Song - Everyday Sunshine by @fishboneband.bsky.social "When you've lost your way, And love & hope have fade away, When it looks like it's no tomorrow, That's when you got to pray...." #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/m...

Morning Song - Paul Revere by The Beastie Boys “I had a little horse named Paul Revere, Just me and my horsy and a quart of beer, Riding across the land, kicking up sand, Sheriff’s posse’s on my tail ’cause I’m in demand….” #ThrowbackThursday masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/m...

Morning Song - Train Kept A-Rollin' by Tiny Bradshaw "She was pretty, from New York City, And she trucked on down the old fair lane...." #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/23/m...

"Most people really need to...take the thinking out (of investing)." #indexfunds Jason Moser on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Morning Song - Go to the Woods by Dar Williams "You've got your forest path, reading, math, dappling of shade; You can just admit it, there's a promise that you made." #EarthDay masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/22/m...

Morning Song - Run for Your Life by Robert Randolph & the Family Band "...electrifying..." #instrumental #sacredsteel masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/m...

Morning Song - Oh Happy Day by @IAMQUEENLATIFAH & Jubilation "Aw, you got your head in the wrong place. You need to see what I see." #Easter #gospel masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/20/m...

Morning Song - Doin' the Suzy-Q by Lil Hardin Armstrong "Now, you truck over here, you swing over there, You tip just like you're walking on air, Then you're...." #Jazz masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/19/m...

Morning Song - Too Hot Ta Trot by The Commodores "The things that you do, The things that you say, That you love me, baby, In the strangest way...." #FunkyFriday masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/m...

Music Is History by @questlove.bsky.social "...takes all his fidgety, restless, searching, excited, ADHD-like energy & enthusiasm, & by sheer force of personality & talent gets you thinking not just about his views & experience & history, but your own." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/m...

If you need a welcome break from all *this* (waves hands), check out @tressiemcphd.bsky.social dunking on fools about British food (& more) like LeBron against high schoolers on an 8' rim. 😄

Morning Song - Don't Play That Song (You Lied) by Ben E. King "I remember on our first date, You kissed me and you walked away..." #seventeen masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/m...

Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside by Melissa Ludtke Today, female sports journalists report from locker rooms at virtually every pro sports contest in the US. "Locker Room Talk" reminds us why that's a big deal. masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/l...

Come on, @pressherald.bsky.social, you're not going to get a better offer than that. Let's make this happen.

Morning Song - You Gotta Move by Sam Cooke "If you keep on mistreating me, baby...." #blues masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/m...

"Money is just a vehicle to get to where you want to be. And money should not be worshiped." Clark Howard on #MoneyUnplugged #Podcast with @chrishillalx.bsky.social www.moneyunpluggedpodcast.com

Unsettled: Triumph & Tragedy in Maine's Indian Country by @colinwoodard.bsky.social "...gripping & invaluable..." masscommons.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/u...