I was listening to Oprah Winfrey’s channel on XM on the way home from the school run this morning (Hey! Stop judging me! We can’t all be NPR all the time.) and I heard an interview with Wynton Marsalis about his new book, “Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life” . I [...]

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Apparently Myspace has noticed Moms are on the internet! There’s an interesting article in “Wired” today about the expansion of Myspace’s music service. Here’s the section that caught my eye:
“MySpace hopes to advertise to more than just the teenagers widely assumed to be the main users of the site. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a [...]

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I have a longstanding love of Neil Young, harkening back to “Heart of Gold”. It’s one of the first songs I remember learning all the words too (not hard, I know.) I was maybe 6, cruising in my mom’s Impala wagon, rocking out.
But times have changed, and Neil isn’t digging it. CNN Money reports that [...]

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Every time the “Mongoose” Fu Manchu commercial comes on, I have to rock out. Yes, we are not Tivo people, so I can’t escape the commercials. We have no cable, so all we watch are Netflix DVDs and stuff on the computer, hooked up to the telly. That’s how I saw the “Mongoose ” commercial [...]

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