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Blogocentric Formulations

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Logocentric (adj). Regarding words and language as a fundamental expression of an external reality (especially applied as a negative term to traditional Western thought by postmodernist critics).

Blogocentric (adj). A portmanteau of "blog" and "logocentric" devised by a word nerd with way too much time on his hands.

Sometimes I just write whatever I feel like. Other times I respond to prompts, mostly scavenged from the following:

"Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"
"Blog City Prompt Forum"
"Invalid Item"
"Invalid Item"
"Take up Your Cross Blog Forum"

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

BIG BAD WOLF is Lucky

Mar 16, 2026 at 12:44pm
In response to "Plot Twists"

There are plenty of twists.

Jeff

Mar 7, 2026 at 5:06pm
In response to "Watch List - February 2026"

@Annette

- I doubt I'll track where I watched something by default, but I'm always happy to tell anyone who asks. We Own This City is on HBO Max. Or Max. Or HBO Now. Or whatever Warner Bros. calls its streaming service currently before Paramount buys them and changes it again.

Steal and Vox Machina and Leverage: Redemption are on Amazon Prime, and "Memory of a Killer" is on Hulu.

Annette

Mar 4, 2026 at 1:25pm
In response to "Watch List - February 2026"

I watched Predator Badlands in the theater and had this to say: "Predator Badlands - a no spoilers review"

One suggestion for these entries: could you put a little add on where you watched the shows? I know Lincoln Lawyer is on Netflix. I've watched the previous three seasons and will likely watch the fourth one also. Thank you for writing about it without spoiling anything. I would be interested in watching "We Own this City" if it's on a service that I have.

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Brandiwyn🎶

Mar 4, 2026 at 12:12pm
In response to "Watch List - February 2026"

Thanks for the recommendation. We just upgraded our Prime to the no-ads version, so we're looking for things to watch.

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I Heart My Sox

Mar 2, 2026 at 6:14pm
In response to "undressed"

I like the song, but I probably wouldn't have listened to it otherwise.

💙 Carly: Happy New Year

Mar 2, 2026 at 9:46am
In response to "undressed"

Oh yeah. thanks. I will be checking that out.

Jeff

Mar 1, 2026 at 4:26pm
In response to "undressed"

💙 Carly: Happy New Year

- The song is called "undressed," and the artist is named "sombr"

💙 Carly: Happy New Year

Mar 1, 2026 at 12:18pm
In response to "undressed"

I'm not able to play the video. Could you tell me the band and the song so I can find it on my own. thanks. Don't know why it does this. Sometimes the link works and sometimes it tells you to Watch Video On YouTube as an error. Odd.

Jeff

Feb 28, 2026 at 4:47am
In response to "Forever Your Girl"

The intro deal was something like 6 cassettes (and later, CDs) for a penny each. That was how they got you, because to get the deal you had to enroll in their subscription plan where the regular price of the albums was seriously jacked up (to like $20-$25) and if you didn't make a selection every month, they'd bill you and send you a featured one every month. Most people signed up for the freebies, then ended up canceling just as soon as they could get out of their one or two year long contracts. But hey, when you're a teenager and building your music collection? The first batch of albums is practically free.

And I remember those days of calling into a radio station, requesting a song, then trying to record it off the radio when they played it. Yeah, you'd always miss part of the song, or the recording quality would be terrible because most people just put a tape recorder in front of the speaker to record it and you'd get ambient noise or interruptions all the time. I don't want to admit how much time and money my teenage self invested in a stereo system designed to optimize recording songs off the radio.

Annette

Feb 28, 2026 at 3:52am
In response to "Forever Your Girl"

You could buy an album for one cent? Dang, I got ripped off growing up in Germany.
I had to buy empty cassette tapes and record off my radio, always missing out on the last ten seconds of each song because the radio host was talking.

December 26, 2025 at 12:55am

#1104443

Underneath the Tree (Again)

WDC 48-Hour Challenge: Media Prompt | Prompt ▶︎

This Kelly Clarkson holiday song was one that I featured in a prior "Invalid Item" playlist back in 2022 (see: "Underneath the Tree" ). We didn't make tamales this year so the reference to playing it while family is around wasn't quite the same, but it did come up constantly on the holiday playlists we've had in the car at playing in the living room all season long.

Christmas this year was a pretty low-key affair. We went to a Christmas service at a church with friends, then spent Christmas Eve and Christmas together with just our family. We had dinner last night, opened presents this morning, and mostly just spent the past two days as a family. It was a modest haul of presents, we made cookies, and we called relatives and texted friends to wish them a Merry Christmas.

Next year, we'll probably do it up a little bigger, but every once in a while it's nice to have an easy, laid back holiday.

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