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      • In response to: "If you were in a movie right now, what music would be playing?" Matisyahu's "One Day"
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    • from david soul to john mellencamp: my 80s celebrity crushes

      • Plinky wants me to name my celebrity crush. I have none because Shepard Smith won't clean out his inbox (dude, you're missing out on my witty e-mails). Instead I'll list my crushes from the past in chronological order:

        1. David Soul from Starsky & Hutch. Why did I crush on an old guy when I was in third grade? Maybe because he sang a sappy ballad called, "Don't Give Up on Us Baby." Sappy ballads were staples in the '70s. Way too much saccharin. Sorry David, I gave up on you. Because there's a new 16-year-old sheriff in town...

        2. Shaun Cassidy. Now there ya go, someone more my age. He had a baby face and long hair like a girl. He didn't button his shirts so that put all transgender conspiracies to rest. After 5 minutes I da-doo-ran-ran to...

        3. Rick Springfield. He sang AND played guitar with parachute pants, Members Only jacket, and bags under his eyes. Remember fan mail? With an envelope and stamp? I did it up right: colored with rainbows and my heart so my letters stood out. I don't know what I wrote, I got distracted when a dancer moonwalked into my life...

        4. Michael Jackson. Back when he had only one or two cosmetic surgeries on the cover of Thriller. I moonwalked, memorized the Thriller and Beat It dances, wore one sparkled glove to school with white socks and penny loafers. Then the Boss knocked me over the head with his butt on the cover of Born in the USA...

        5. Bruce Springsteen. Finally! A manly man! With muscles! He danced like a white guy with Courteney Cox. He broke my heart when he married Julianne Phillips and again when he broke her heart for his back up singer. If he had two main squeezes so could I. I went pure rock-n-roll with...

        6. John Fogerty and John Cougar Mellencamp. I bought Centerfield with ten bucks I won in a poetry contest. I saw Mellencamp in concert in Milwaukee when he twisted his ankle early on but kept on going. I knew all the lyrics to all the songs. Then he went all liberal on me. Sigh.

        I graduated high school then college and married my own guitar-playing artist who serenaded me with Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" on his classical guitar. Crushes be damned.

      • answered by tjones5516 on 11/13/2010
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    • the looks on our faces

      • Today, Plinky asks to share my favorite photo of myself. I chose this one with my husband.


        This photo's my favorite because Tim was reluctant to have it taken at first, but it turned out to be the best photo of us together. It's not one of those staged shots where you sit thinking, "C'mon! Take the picture!" with a plastic smile posted to your face. This photo reveals the looks we have on our faces most of the time.

        It was taken at my nephew's wedding--the same nephew who asked all the ladies to dance at our wedding over 18 years ago. My youngest daughter took his place by running out on the dance floor and boogie-ing with anyone who was out there. I ran out there after her, of course, and danced to every song from Neil Diamond to Lady GaGa.

        Tim and my older daughter sat at their table, quiet, playing games and taking pictures with their iPods, just like a typical day in the Jones household.

      • answered by tjones5516 on 10/17/2010
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    • you can never learn less

      • Bucky Fuller biography

        My greatest achievement is right now, this evening, as I enjoy a Fudgesicle. I helped my older daughter catch up with her homework after a bout of strep throat. I also helped my youngest daughter catch up with her homework since she switched charter schools last week.

        I was more than happy to go from homeschooling one day a week to three if it meant my daughter wouldn't overload her senses from an ever-growing classroom due to increasing California charter school enrollment. To any government head cheese who thinks getting rid of charter schools in California is a good thing, bite me.

        My greatest achievement is peace of mind. I know that if one daughter who has a plethora of doctor appointments misses class, she won't get behind because home school is a part of her learning. I know how to catch her up. I know that if the other daughter who doesn't do well with so many kids in one room will succeed in a smaller classroom because that option is out there.

        This morning when I volunteered in the classroom I heard the teacher tell her students, "We aren't here to cheat or just write down the answers. We aren't here to get the work done as fast as possible. You don't know everything. I'm almost 31 years old and I don't know everything. You are here to learn."

        It's like what R. Buckminster Fuller said: "You can never learn less, you can only learn more."



      • answered by tjones5516 on 10/07/2010
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    • ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba

      • Plinky's prompt for the day is to create a playlist for the one I love. You know who you are.


        If Not For You by George Harrison

        I found this gem while researching George Harrison last year when he received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Bob Dylan wrote the lyrics, but it was this performance from 1992 that made me favorite it:



        The mustache, the purple jacket, and 1992, the year we married. Definitely first choice.

        Love Shack by B-52s

        This song was around number one when my husband and I were dating. I first heard the B-52s perform it on David Letterman, remembering them from the early eighties as the crazy "Rock Lobster" people. The next day at work I raved about it which was fortunate since I worked in a record store. This CD along with the BoDeans, Tom Petty and the Traveling Wilburys were on constant rotation.

        This band was the original Lady GaGa. I heard that the reason they named themselves the B-52s was from the ladies' hair that was fixed to look like bombs.

        Happy Together by Turtles

        Tim had this grand plan for me the night he proposed. He hid my ring in a piece of cake (he called it "Carat Cake") and came over to the house. I had the worst cold and I was watching the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment trial. Romantic, I know.

        We went out in the cold and drove around telling everyone the good news, though I was coughing and hacking up a storm. In the car, he played this song with the following lyrics:

        Me and you and you and me
        No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be
        The only one for me is you, and you for me
        So happy together

        And these thoughtful words:

        Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba
        Ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba ba-ba-ba-ba

        In sickness and in health, we're still happy together.

      • answered by tjones5516 on 09/30/2010
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    • the sun, chirping, and the child

      • Here Comes the Sun by George Harrison

        My sister played this album a LOT when I was little. Our family lived in a cozy one floor home in Pleasant Prairie, WI. My sister had all the Beatles albums and when I learned to read, I sat enthralled by the huge album covers and notes.

        I saw the transformation of the boys in half shadows on Meet the Beatles to the four squares on Let it Be. "Here Comes the Sun" reminds me of whatever we lose, it eventually comes back just like the sun never failing to rise.

        Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep by Mac & Katie Kissoon

        Did Quiet Riot rip off the melody of this song for "Cum On Feel the Noize?" Listen closely, they sound alike. This song came out in 1971 which means I was 2 years old when it was on AM radio. I don't remember much as a toddler but I do remember music.

        I read that this song, about a baby bird who lost its mother, is a statement about boys lost in Vietnam. I'm not sure if that's true but I do know that it's a bubblegum pop song with a good beat you can dance to (to quote the many teenagers on Dick Clark's Rate-a-Record)

        O-O-H Child by The Five Stairsteps

        This song I listened to after my first daughter was born with a multitude of medical issues. The week after her birth, NICU kept finding something wrong with her as each day went by. First there were gastrointestinal issues, then a single kidney, and finally a hole in her heart.

        Although the doctors swarmed around my husband and I and told us exactly what happened and what we needed to do, it still felt like we were drowning. Then I heard these lyrics: "Ooh child, things are gonna get easier. Ooh child, thing's will get brighter." And yes, eventually, we walked in the rays of the beautiful sun.

      • answered by tjones5516 on 09/25/2010
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