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Mark Blankenship
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Bylines and other work at markgblankenship.com. If you lived inside my mind, you'd be home by now.
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I am counting down my top 100 90s songs, because obviously it needs to be done. The first batch of songs includes Paula, Phil, Heavy, and Jade. lostsongs.substack.com/p/my-top-100...
My Top 100 90s Songs: #100-81
We begin our journey through the decade's best music
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William Joel has engrossed us again! @sarahdbunting.bsky.social and I team up with our good pal Dan Rogge to rank the songs on Billy Joel's album THE STRANGER. bleav.com/shows/mark-a...
Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs: Billy Joel’s “The Stranger,” Ranked (with Dan Rogge!)
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At various points in my life, I had both of these phones, so you know my conversations were COOL.
Print media alert! I was fortunate to write the companion book for the vinyl cast album of the GYPSY revival. Available now!
Throughout my life, I've had such a complex relationship with mayonnaise. Currently, it's a love affair, but I've been through this cycle enough times to know it could end at any second.
I just saw Final Destination: Bloodlines. My favorite thing is how the film is supposedly set in America, but half the cast sounds more Canadian than the cashier at Ottawa's second-largest Tim Horton's.
Hi. Hello. I will never stop writing text messages in complete sentences with punctuation. Thank you for loving me as I am.
Despite Tone Loc's advice, I do the wild thing for free!
Only 5.5 million hollers to go!
I am delighted to be back on Extra Hot Great, especially for an episode that involves so much music.
Damn! You're right. I overlooked that one somehow, and it's one of my favorite examples of a weird #1 hit!
Remembering that brief period when Dutch pop acts stormed the US charts with songs that sounded like they came from a German beerhall. lostsongs.substack.com/p/how-do-you...?
"How Do You Do," Mouth and Macneal (1972)
A trippy Dutch song with a hint of the German bierhall
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A couple of times in the last week, I've seen a suggestion that "Chicago" was somehow a poor choice for Best Picture, and I cannot let this madness stand. The entire internet is grounded.
Funnily enough, "scattering sugar on my floors" is my favorite euphemism for something you'd like the exterminator to do.
Oh, I did! Naturally, I played all of them in reverse chronological order.
I got 19/22. I feel great about that!
A print-only newspaper! We just published Issue 7 of Modern Vintage News (modernvintagenews.com), where I'm proud to be Senior Editor. Join us for 40 pages of original reporting and essays about appreciating what we already have and rediscovering the supposedly familiar world around us.
Unsung heroes: The people who communicate clearly with freelancers about payment and help them get their money promptly.