Sunday Stealing Pretends It’s Wednesday

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week, all eyes turn to Mary, who long ago played Wednesday Medley, which she credited to Terri D (Your Friend from Florida), who originally came up with the questions.

A Wednesday meme on a Sunday (Sunday Stealing Pretends It’s Wednesday)

1. Name five songs that you have completely memorized.

I’m sure there are hundreds of them from when I was growing up, kids’ songs, Christmas carols, hymns, and the like.

The Boxer—Simon and Garfunkel (but not that “after changes upon changes, we’re more or less the same” part that was excised and later re-added). This song fed right into my teenage angst.

Help! – The Beatles. I belonged to the Capitol Records Club from 1966 to ’68, in large part to get all of the Beatles’ albums. I owned none before this. Help, BTW, was a song that my daughter and a friend sang at a church musical.

King Of The Road -Roger Miller. One of the CRC items sent to me because of the negative option—you get the item unless you let them know in a timely fashion—was Roger Miller’s Golden Hits on Smash Records. I liked it. It helped that he had a great first name.

So Soon In The Morning – Joan Baez. This song was on the Green Family Singers’ repertoire from this album. I sang it once at my former church with a soprano named Laura.

Go Where You Wanna Go – the Mamas and the Papas. It was also in the Green Family Singers song list, but it was just my sister Leslie and me.

Time Has Come Today

2. What takes up too much of your time?

I’m whittling down my emails. My email triggers me to work on booking speakers for the Friends and Foundation of the Albany Public Library every Tuesday, writing blog posts, paying bills, and engaging in personal interactions. 

3. What TV show or movie do you refuse to watch?

I generally avoid movies and television shows with a lot of violence. I can’t give you names because if I don’t watch them, I don’t remember them. However, I made an exception this year for the movie Sinners, which my daughter recommended. 

4. What’s worth spending more on to get the best?

The first thing that came to mind was some breakfast cereal. I bought a box of ersatz Cheerios  30 years ago, which tasted like cardboard. 

5. Share something you did last week.

Yesterday, I went onto my front porch to pick up the morning newspaper. Yes, we read a daily physical periodical. I saw this cool spider web. I’m not a guy who takes a lot of pictures, especially on my phone, but this called to me. So I got closer, but the sun washed out the look. I tried from the street side, but that didn’t work either.

Finally, I returned to the entryway, snapped the photo, then trimmed it by about 90%. (The picture below is similar to the shot above before trimming; see the spider in front of the tree.) I’m glad I took it when I did because, a half hour later, the spider was gone. 

Thank you for playing! Please come back next week.