Category: Fun

• Your Monday Reminder Is Something I Know Way Too Much About

  Spring tends to make people a little goofy, especially here in the Northeast where it seemed like we’d be buried under snow until sometime in the middle of July. But…

• Funky Friday Goes to the Movies: A James Brown Biopic is On the Way

  James Brown’s story + James Brown’s music + excellent director and a stellar cast = a couple of blissful hours in the cinema for this funkateer sometime soon.

• Funky Friday: Featuring Special Surprise Guest Star Christopher Walken

  Musically or thematically, “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” by C+C Music Factory wouldn’t be my first (or even fifth) Funky Friday pick for today, simply because it’s a…

• Sometimes Your Musical Robot Algorithm-Fueled Jukebox Actually Gets It Right

  It’s a snow Monday (damn it) here in the Philadelphia suburbs and a two-hour school delay for my kids, so I honestly needed a little something to kick me in…

• Happy Tuesday: Your Complaints About Daylight Savings Time Are Now Invalid

  Get up, get moving and quit your bitching about the time change. You’re a grown-up, not an infant. If scooching the clock back and forth an hour messes with you…

• Your Morning Nerdgasm: The ‘Back to the Future’ Hoverboard, Brought to You by Doc Brown Himself

  I can in no way vouch for the veracity of this, but the big names – included Christopher Lloyd – enlisted for this video make it pretty cool anyway. And…

• Careful Which Aliens You Tote Around On Your Bike

• Power Pop Wednesday: Liz Phair and Hermione and Women Who Rock

  As a lover of early ’90s alternative rock, it’s practically illegal for me to NOT like Liz Phair. Oh, Liz, with your girl-I-would-date looks and WAY-out-of-my-league fantastically filthy mind, you…

• Funky Friday Writing Advice: Take What Someone Else Did and Make It Your Own

  OK, now that you’re good and worn out from chair dancing, let’s talk about the Grammy Awards, where last Sunday, despite a truckload of radio play, Robin Thicke failed to…

• Have a Happy, ‘Happy’ Funky Friday

  The Oscar nominations were announced yesterday, and along with my annual bout of angst over having seen very few of the nominated films, I was delighted to see that Pharrell…