Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

One of my all-time favorite Tiny Desk Concerts is the amazing and wonderful Lizzo. Top five, for sure.

Side note, what life choices have led to me (1) having a top five list of NPR Tiny Desk Concerts, and (2) knowing what they are?

Point is, Lizzo is a simply fantastic human being, and her energy and talent and personality are all right here. Plus, the flute!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFiLdByWIDY

She was also featured on Dave Letterman’s “My Next Guess Needs No Introduction,” and she rocked that too.

#lizzo #TinyDeskConcert #MusicVideo

It’s a cover of a mashup of a cover! It’s Pomplamoose covering the Pentatonix mashup of a Daft Punk cover, and as always, while Daft Punk uses editing to get the frenetic vocals, Nataly sings it all. Just amazing stuff.

Point of trivia: Jack, the heavily-bearded fellow on keyboards, is Nataly’s husband and co-founder of Patreon.com.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXgF1LyUA3I

#pomplamoose #DaftPunk #Pentatonix #MusicVideo

It is surprisingly hard to buy a car right now. At least for me, it’s hard to buy a 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV Premier with sunroof. Been talking to four different dealers for more than a week, and today declined a “new” car that had been at the Texas State Fair, with 557 miles to show for it, in favor of one that isn’t a color I wanted but will be delivered Saturday.

Driving a car in a color I didn’t want should build character, right? More than waiting until March?

#blog #personal

This is not a commercial for Dave’s Hot Chicken! I have been enjoying their sandwiches and decor, is all.

#corporateArt #photography

I finally put up the holiday tree on Saturday, so it's starting to seem a bit more like the holiday season.

Not too much, just a bit.

The artificial tree is pre-trimmed with lights and even artificial pine cones and berries, and it looks so good just out of the box that all we've added to it is the traditional star on top. We have traditionally bought one new ornament each every year, and we'll do that again this year, but those will likely be the only four ornaments on the tree, other than the topper.

I don't think there's any "right way" to celebrate holidays, although I suppose there are plenty of wrong ways. Don't be hateful, be kind. Be gracious to others, and accept with gratitude when others are gracious to you. Be gracious to yourself. Beyond that, you can light candles or cut down a tree or pull a tabletop artificial mini-tree out of a box, and decorate your living space however you wish, and if it works for you, I think that's all that matters.

Whether you mark Christmas or Hanukkah or Festivus or some other event this time of year, I hope you can take a moment to be grateful for having survived another year on this planet.

#blog #christmas #holidays