Randomly Monday:

• Two songs that were never intended to be played back to back, but were this afternoon on one local station: “Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd and “Chains of Love” by Erasure. I’m not a big fan of either, but the juxtaposition amused me greatly. Or at least mildy.
• Sad news du jour: the Charlotte Observer will no longer be sold in this area starting next week. My friends know that I still very much like my printed newspapers, and this limits my options considerably.
• Got my digital converter coupons in the mail today. I’m not sure how useful they’ll be without an outside antenna, and I almost want to keep one of them as a souvenir.

Babooshka
Kate Bush, 1980.

Cloudbusting
Kate Bush, 1985.

Suspended in Gaffa
Kate Bush, 1982.

The Man with the Child in His Eyes
Kate Bush, 1978.

Running Up That Hill
Kate Bush, 1985.

I thought I’d finish up this little marathon with “the hit”, probably the only Kate Bush song a lot of Americans have ever heard.

Nothing like a couple of gigs of new RAM to perk up a three-year-old G5 and take some of that strain off that new hard drive I put in just a few months ago.

Did I really just hear a TV commercial for a home pregnancy test that referred to it as “the most significant piece of technology you will ever pee on”?

Love Is Like Oxygen
Sweet, 1978.

Yes, this is the very same Sweet who recorded “Ballroom Blitz”, “Little Willy”, and “Fox on the Run”, and this was the number thirteen song in America thirty years ago this week.

God, I’m old…