Day: March 8, 2020

FOWC with Fandango — Combine

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FOWCWelcome to March 9, 2020 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.

I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).

Today’s word is “combine.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments.

The issue with pingbacks not showing up seems to have been resolved, but you might check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

  1. And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.

Who Won The Week? 03/08/2020

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10CC3057-4EEA-4C80-B8C1-700C0FC6C906It’s time for another Who Won the Week prompt. The idea behind Who Won the Week is for you to select who (or what) you think “won” this past week. Your selection can be anyone or anything — politicians, celebrities, athletes, authors, bloggers, your friends or family members, books, movies, TV shows, businesses, organizations, whatever.

I will be posting this prompt on Sunday mornings (my time). If you want to participate, write your own post designating who you think won the week and why you think they deserve your nod. Then link back to this post and tag you post with FWWTW.

This week I am choosing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.6D8F648A-6961-4521-A3CF-9EB730AFF79FThe former American Vice President last Saturday had a tide-turning blow out victory in the South Carolina primary. His South Carolina win over Bernie Sanders was so decisive that by the time Super Tuesday came around, two competitors for the Democratic nomination, Amy klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, had withdrawn from the race.

Carrying the momentum from his big win on Saturday, Joe won 10 of the 14 primaries on Super Tuesday, a huge blow to  Sanders, the former front runner. It also led to two more contenders to drop out, Michael Bloomberg and my candidate of choice, Elizabeth Warren.

So now Biden is the front runner for the Democratic nomination and it’s essentially a two man race. Actually, it’s a two old white men race. But it’s only March and we’re still four months away from the Democratic Convention in mid-July. So it’s too early to say that Joe’s has won the nomination. But he certainly did win the week.

And now it’s your turn, folks. Who (or what) do you think won the week?

Song Lyric Sunday — Southern Man

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The directions Jim Adams gave us for this week’s Song Lyric Sunday were simply directions: north, south, east, and west. The song I chose might be a bit of a bending of a strict interpretation of the rules, but since this is my blog, I can bend the rules if I want to. I chose “Southern Man” by Neil Young.

“Southern Man” was a track on Neil Young’s 1970 album After the Gold Rush. The song was about racism in the American South, with oblique to references to slavery and the Ku Klux Klan. Young claimed the song was more about the civil rights movement than the South, but many southerners didn’t appreciate the negative generalization.

In his autobiography, Young apologized for the song, writing, “I don’t like my words when I listen to it. They are accusatory and condescending, not fully thought out, and too easy to misconstrue.”

The southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” as a response to “Southern Man.” Young is mentioned in the line, “I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern man don’t need him around anyhow.” The members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were actually big fans of Young. “Sweet Home Alabama” was meant as a good-natured answer to “Southern Man” as well as to Young’s song, “Alabama,” from his 1972 album, Harvest.

Here are the lyrics to “Southern Man.”

Southern man, better keep your head.
Don’t forget what your good book said.
Southern change gonna come at last.
Now your crosses are burning fast.

Southern man.

I saw cotton and I saw black.
Tall white mansions and little shacks.
Southern man, when will you pay them back?

I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking.
How long? How long?

Southern man, better keep your head.
Don’t forget what your good book said.
Southern change gonna come at last.
Now your crosses are burning fast.

Southern man.

Lily Belle, your hair is golden brown.
I’ve seen your black man comin’ round.
Swear by God, I’m gonna cut him down!

I heard screamin’ and bullwhips cracking.
How long? How long?

As a bonus this week, here’s Neil Young’s “Alabama” with lyrics.

And as a second bonus, here’s Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.”

FOWC with Fandango — Predicament

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FOWCWelcome to March 8, 2020 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.

I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).

Today’s word is “predicament.”

Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.

Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Or you can simply include a link to your post in the comments.

The issue with pingbacks not showing up seems to have been resolved, but you might check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.

  1. And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.