Category: music
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Rhiannon promised me heaven and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
The Fleetwood Mac Military-Industrial Complex cannot be confined to a single blog post. Around 1968, Peter Green wrote a song called “Black Magic Woman.” When I was a teenager we referred to this song as “Black Magic Marker.” You can find it on Fleetwood Mac’s English Rose album (1969). It’s…
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Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night. That’s super annoying.
Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac Various artists 2014 Mick Fleetwood and John McVie were hard-working members of John Mayall’s Blues Breakers. When they decided to form their own band (everyone who worked for John Mayall in the 1960s formed his own band), they…
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Her name is Cleo and she dances on the sand
In January we adopted an undersize corgi in need of rescue. Cleo is the abridged version of this type of dog – instead of weighing in around 30 pounds, she only weighs 20. She’s so small that we thought she was not far beyond puppyhood, but our vet says she’s…
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First down and forever
Years and years ago, when I worked at Seattle Weekly, when there were still wolves in West Seattle and humpback whales in Elliott Bay, when the grunge scene was an ordeal because it was always raining and the flannel shirts we wore soaked up the wet, before the motor car,…
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