Now, I hate to gloat, since so many people are still waiting for their turn, but I’m going to do it anyway: I GOT MY FIRST SHOT OF THE COVID VACCINE! Three hundred and sixty-five days after my day job’s office first closed due to COVID, I unexpectedly found…

Paula Abdul on Sept. 9, 1988 in Munich. Photo by Fryderyk Gabowicz/Getty Images. This week, huh? My original column topic was going to be songs with extremely memorable 20-second segments that made for good hand-washing timers. That was Tuesday morning. By Tuesday night it was already a driven-into-the-ground meme,…

Gotye in his birthday suit We’re getting distressingly close to now, which is making it much harder to pick songs. Time is a fantastic filter. With every year that passes a bunch of mediocre songs are forgotten, so as we get closer to now I’m worried I’m going to…