Welcome back, music lovers. Remember this track by Toto?
That song would lead to this wonderful moment early in the second season of Community:
I’ll try to add a little bit of trivia about this song when time permits. In the meantime, cheers!
Midweek Cafe and Lounge, Vol. 112
There is a blog called Africa is a Country that has some regular fun at this song’s expense. Another blogger picked up on that not long after the start of this decade and had a bit of fun as well. This blogger was trying to put together something for a musicologist friend’s wedding and came upon this epiphany: But after a few days of intense humming along to myself and attempting to trigger things in the recesses of musical memory, I had come up with relatively little. However, while I had only located a couple tracks that make reference to… Read more »
I don’t recall ever mentioning it here before, but I am a big fan of marching bands and drum and bugle corps, so my contribution to the cover versions of this song will be by two drum corps. Today, I am sharing Crossmen and Genesis from 2016. Both corps are from Texas, although Crossmen used to be from Pennsylvania.
Now the other performance, DCI Cavaliers ENCORE Performance of ‘Africa’ by Toto from 2018.
That’s enough of that. I have a parody of the song in mind for tomorrow.
I promised a parody of “Africa” last week, but then this entry fell off the rec list before I could post it. Now that it’s here, I’m taking advantage of the opportunity to do so.
Tomorrow is National Amaretto Day, so all of the drinks I will serve while this diary is on the rec list will contain amaretto. I begin with How to make the Amaretto Sunrise – Tipsy Bartender. Your girl will love this drink…THE AMARETTO SUNRISE! This is one of the prettiest drinks we’ve made–it truly looks just like a magical sunset in a glass, with the hue changing from a yellow to orange to red in subtle layers. Plus, it tastes incredible! Amaretto, orange juice, and grenadine give it a nice fruity almond type of flavor that is sweet and smooth.… Read more »
Today’s recipe video is How to make Homemade Amaretto – Tipsy Bartender.
Since the video didn’t embed in the transferred comment, here it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYJxw9qMNy4
And while I am still on that now-iconic song by Toto, here is a meme that was circulating around the internet tubes a few years ago:
My favorite meme with Dorothy and Toto also stars Alice in Wonderland. Let’s see if the code works here.
Nope. What about this?
I’m pretty sure we have some lurkers in the Frog Pond. Come on into the Cafe and announce yourselves.
Is there some way to have a gray background to this site? BooMan Tribune let me use my computer settings to do away with the extreme glare of white backgrounds.
Tien Le- I had no idea that you could do that at Booman Tribune. We will look into it.
On second thought, it might have been Color That Site! I still have the old version of Firefox for that very reason.
Posting in response to Mr. Longman’s request for observations about the new platform: I notice that there’s no longer a preview option for comments. I know of at least one other site that doesn’t have a preview option, and people there make do. That being said, for what it’s worth, I’ve found the option useful particularly for testing links (it’s easy for me to get tangled in the code. I see there are HTML buttons here, but I suspect that would not really help my proofing much or reduce the kinds of errors I tend to make. We’ll see). I… Read more »
So far, I think the site looks great, but I have noticed a few small things that could be improved. I understand that this is all in beta right now, so maybe these are known, but here they are in case they aren’t. First, the comment count at the top of the article is off. The link on the front page says 5 (which only includes top level comments, I’m not sure if that is intentional or not) but the article heading says there are 0. Second, there’s a pretty uninformative error message on author profiles that (presumably) either aren’t… Read more »
So far everything is working for me.
Do I still have to know how to code html (i don’t know) to post videos or gifs or is it easier now? So far, I’m liking the new site.
edited because I am an idiot and cannot post videos.
It’s the first weekend of Jazz Fest down in New Orleans.
Apparently, you just paste the photo’s url in and it takes care of all the html. Not sure how it handles sizing, as I’m worried people will bust the margins.
Found something else in my poking around:
On the Froggy Botttom Cafe page, shouldn’t Froggy have three Gs? Or something. (The typo on the page matches the typo in the URL.)
That page seems to be about painting with boran2, and it was posted last Saturday. Is this page (“Saturday, painting time with Boran2”) related to it?
Not sure what you mean by froggy having 3 g’s. I certainly would not use more than 2.
On Satudays, the cafe hosts boran2 and his painting diary. Maybe Sundays should have stand-up comedy, but I’m not going for poetry readings. Fridays are for photography.
I was trying to be witty, succeeded only in being half-witty. Botttom has three Ts both in the header of the page and also in the URL. Is that deliberate, and am I being even less than half-witty? Yeah, I got that the cafe hosts the painting diary on Saturdays. I didn’t understand why the entry “Paintings” under “Popular Posts” linked to this page and not the diary itself [which seems to be here]—in the way that the entry for the Friday Foto Flog under “Popular Posts” links to the photog diary itself. (I’m guessing that “SPP” stands for “Saturday… Read more »
It’s the opening weekend of Jazz Fest y’all!
that worked!
Keeping with the Africa theme, New Orleans style:
And here’s Katy Perry from yesterday, getting down with local legends The Soul Rebels.
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this is our solution for ornery cattledogs.
There should be a sports lounge, cafe or something,
Sounds like a good theme for Sundays during football season.
and maybe once a week during baseball season. and maybe something during the World Cup?
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