Four Years and Counting

Yes, it’s true! I’ve published at least one blog post everyday for the past four years. As of today I have posted 1663 articles, containing 1,158,371 words. My most popular categories have been Music, Paranormal, History, Science, Movies and TV, and Donnie’s Atlanta Record Shopping Memories.

I just entered my 20th inductee into my Doyle’s Space Music Hall of Fame, Elton John. It is a lot of fun honoring some of my favorite Artists. Last year (2023), I added The Gummy Awards (Bubblegum Music), and Songwriters Award which honors the best songwriters or songwriting teams in musical history.

My Omni Coliseum – 70s Concerts and 80s Concerts posts have been extremely popular. It took a while but was fun looking back on all of the concerts that had been enjoyed at that, now defunct, Atlanta venue. I still need to finish up the series with the 90s shows!

I continue trying to post about the famous folks we are losing all the time. Fortunately most have lived a good long life, but it is always sad. My latest have been, Richard Tandy (keybordist for the Electric Light Orchestra), O.J. Simpson (football/movies), and Louis Gossett Jr. (actor).

One of my newest musical categories is 12″ Inch Singles. I have always enjoyed collecting records like that and will continue to post about them. I have a large selection of The Bangles and Prince. The first two I posted were “Be With You” (Bangles) and “Touch and Go”(Emerson, Lake & Powell).

I listen to a lot of podcasts, while driving and compounding at the pharmacy. I get many ideas from these including Jumbo Machinder (Monster Party Podcast), Costume Designer – Hardy Amies (Monster Party Podcast), Cat’s-Ear Weed (Green & Growing Podcast), Wild Onions or Wild Garlic? (Green & Growing Podcast), Gravitational Lenses (Startalk w/Neil deGrasse Tyson), and Moon Trees (Startalk w/Neil deGrasse Tyson).

I also get ideas from my friends just talking about something of interest like Circular Rainbow and Yonah Mountain (Beau Howard) and Freshwater Snails (Tim Worley).