What A Game! (A Whimsical Musical Tribute to America’s Pastime)

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX
Baseball 25 - Coco Crisp

A** over Teakettle – typical around this place…..

Around our house, we call it “The Mushroom Factor” – you start off doing one thing, and everything snowballs. It started out innocently enough – I realized that Opening Day was upon us.

Literally.

I don’t follow baseball all that closely (I’m a football kind of a gal), but I’ve always wanted to see a YouTube video with one of my favorite “baseball” songs – “What A Game!” from the musical Ragtime, mixed with pictures from baseball games/players/fans. I just love the humor in the lyrics (even though some of the words used are less than politically correct in this day and age), and it always seemed like a song that would be ripe for such a video treatment.

I missed Opening Day by a couple of weeks this year, but I still wanted to pay tribute to America’s Pastime. I had a lot of fun putting this together – I hope you like it (click on the icon in the lower right corner if you want to view it full-screen):

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He.Is.Risen.

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

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Good Friday – “Were You There?”

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

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Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.

And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.

And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.

And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.

Matthew 27:27-31 KJV


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Happy Birthday to my BFF!

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

Who let the (old) broads out?

The first day of high school (Fall, 1974), the girl sitting in the desk in front of me in my first class (German II, with Herr Suhr) turned around and said, “Hi! I’m Becky.”
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It’s Called “The Shatner”…..

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

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They say that “Necessity is the mother of invention”.

They also say, “Teach a man to fish…..” (you know the rest).

One of the blogs that I follow had a post about William Shatner today, and I wanted to find a clip of one of my favorite lines about “The Shat”. It’s from the TV show “3rd Rock From The Sun”, and with a little bit of research I was able to find out that the name of the episode in question is “Moby Dick”.

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The Tragic Betrayal (A Feline Tale of Woe)

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

Henri the Cat relates his humiliating experience:

The poor dear.
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It’s Almost Easter….

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

…so I figured I should share a picture of me with my favorite bunny:

I used to be so cute….. 😛

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It’s World Down Syndrome Day (3/21)

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

Our little munchkin, Rebecca

I’m not usually big on “Awareness” Days, but I make an exception for this one, because it celebrates some very special people. The date that was picked (3/21) is no accident – on this date, we celebrate those wonderful people who have 3 copies of the 21st chromosome. Life in a family with a DS member is a whirlwind adventure!

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Saint Patrick’s Day meets Sesame Street meets “Danny Boy”

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

I tried to find this version of “Danny Boy” (Garrett Morris, SNL, 03/18/78), but it’s behind a paywall at Hulu…

One of the reasons that I love Saint Patrick’s Day is because it gives me an excuse to listen to one of my all-time favorite songs, “Danny Boy“.

If there were ever any doubt about my ancestry (I’ve got some “Kelly” and “Carroll” in my family tree), the way that this tune makes me feel like I’ve “come home” puts that to rest – there is no denying that music from the British Isles is the kind of music that stirs my soul.

In putting this post together, I listened to a LOT of different versions of the song, and I ran across one that surprised me. You see, I’ve only ever known Bob McGrath as a performer on “Sesame Street” – I didn’t have a CLUE that he had such an amazing voice!

When I heard this version, I knew that I had found “the one” (I apologize for the video quality – the audio is pristine):
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Beware The Ides of March….

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Teresa in Fort Worth, TX

“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears…”

Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry “Caesar!” Speak, Caesar is turn’d to hear.
Soothsayer: Beware the ides of March.
Caesar: What man is that?
Brutus: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Julius Caesar Act 1, scene 2, 15–19

…hope your day goes better than this guy’s did, back in 44 B.C.:
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Vincenzo Camuccini, Mort de César, 1798

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(If you stay away from Senators on the steps of the Roman Capitol, you should be OK….)

Et, tu, Brute?
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