Archive for December, 2024
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 22, 2024
Don’t forget, kids–DL’s 2024 MVP’s drops tomorrow! Also my way of saying that I’m not all that confident that I’ll find much to write about today. But you never know. Let’s see what I can dig up… Lara Trump Not Heading To The Senate. Gotta love this explanation: “After an incredible amount of thought, contemplation, […]
Song of the Day 12/21: Kay Starr, “(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man With the Bag”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona It shouldn’t be hard to identify “the man with the bag” everybody’s waiting for this time of year. The bag has presents in it. It arrives by way of reindeer. There’s a song to remind us. If you’re not hearing Kay Starr’s1950 hit recording of “(Everybody’s Waitin’ For) The Man […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 21, 2024
Totally Unnecessary Shutdown Averted. Trump doesn’t get his shutdown while Biden is President.: Facing a government shutdown deadline, the Senate rushed through final passage early Saturday of a bipartisan plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, dropping President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. House Speaker Mike Johnson had insisted Congress would […]
Song of the Day 12/20: Kelly Clarkson, “You for Christmas”
When I heard this on the car radio the other day I honestly thought it was some overlooked song from a ’60s soul Christmas album. With better speakers I could hear that Phil Spector-style production was too clean to be that old, and its spot-on emulation of that girl-group sound showed the gifted mimicry of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 20, 2024
Three Notable Trends From This Year: 1. The News-Journal is no longer an essential newspaper. While the paper broke a couple of stories, most of the big stories were reported by the likes of Spotlight Delaware, WHYY, Bay To Bay, and even the Cape Gazette. Our so-called newspaper became little more than that weekly shopper […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 19, 2024
It takes a person truly comfortable in their own skin to admit when they were wrong. I was…I was…I was… I’m working on it. However, you (and some others who I respect who e-mailed me) have convinced me that my take on Greg Patterson’s nomination was….I can’t say it. Here’s what I’ve taken away from […]
Song of the Day 12/19: Perry Como, “(There’s No Place Like) Home for the Holidays”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona It took just one day to write a Christmas song that’s been a staple of the season for 70 years. Sometimes you get your work done pretty fast when the boss demands it. Mitch Miller, then chief A&R man at Columbia Records, told composer Robert Allen and lyricist Al Stillman […]
Song of the Day 12/18: The Philly Specials & Mt. Joy, “Santa Drives an Astrovan”
Jason Kelce and his erstwhile offensive linemates on the Philadelphia Eagles released the third and what they say will be their final charity Christmas LP, “A Philly Special Christmas Party,” late last month. The success of the first two albums helped them land some big-name guest artists this time around, including Philly natives Boyz II […]
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
I’m putting this out there as a self-enforcing mechanism to get the stuff done: Monday, December 23: DL’s MVP’s Of 2024. December 26-30: ‘Bulo’s Fave Fifty Tunes Of The Year. December 31: 2024: The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous. Man-n-n-n, they don’t pay me enough… Trump Sues Des Moines Register. Only the beginning. He’s gonna […]
Song of the Day 12/17: GlassDuo, “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy”
You’ll seldom hear a better match of music and instrument than this performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from “The Nutcracker Suite.” It was written in 1892 for the then-recently invented celeste, a piano-like instrument with hammers that strike metal bars, producing a soft, bell-like tone. It sounds even better given the […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Articles I Won’t Read–And Won’t Link To: ‘The Road Back To Power For Democrats’ by Rahm Emanuel. It’s out there. You’ll have to find it for yourselves. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against So-Called ‘Elite’ Colleges For ‘Price-Fixing’. You just know it happens, but are the schools liable?: A filing in an antitrust lawsuit against some […]
Song of the Day 12/16: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “Christmas All Over Again”
“A Very Special Christmas,” the 1987 charity LP conceived by producer Jimmy Iovine as a memorial to his father, succeeded beyond all expectations. Inspired in part by Phil Spector’s legendary holiday LP, Iovine tapped people he had worked with, starting with Bruce Springsteen, to donate songs for the album, and produced several tracks himself. It […]
A Very Special Delaware Edition Of The DL Open Thread: Monday, December 16, 2024
Rethugs Got Handed The SD 5 Seat. Turned It Down. Backwards reels the mind. Word on the street is that Cathy Cloutier sought the nomination for the post being vacated by Lt. Governor-Elect Kyle Evans Gay. She would have blown away the rumpled empty suit who D party insiders chose as the nominee. However, the […]
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