SKApril!

The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The A-OKs, "Words Are Not for Eating" via iTunes (Rob the Slob)

Skammentary: The A-OKs are a latter-day Denver-based ska band recommended to me by my debate buddy & FaceSpace "friend" Rob the Slob, a professor at Denver's Regis College. I am always thrilled to add a new band to the SKApril roster, now standing at fifty-six discrete bands & counting. "Words Are Not for Eating" is an amusing musing on the manifold difficulties in communicating, that after a forty-five-second instrumental introduction begins with this odd preamble:

"Courage! and rock & roll…

"I thought we'd be friends, but no!
Your pride, justified, you should've let it go,
So much for the strong union,
Might as well be deaf and dumb for the lack of communication.

"Why would I be upset? The tension's over,
I have no regrets, but I'm hardly sober,
I don't have you to blame 'cause I don't have you,
That bridge burned past the point of ever coming back…"

Urbi et Orbi
As I had to remind my father this morning, when I greeted him with a cheery "Happy Easter!" & he replied with a confused 'Happy day after Easter?," Easter is a season—the Eastertide—not a day. Much like the Christmastide does not end but merely begins on Christmas Day, the Eastertide does not end but merely begins on Easter Sunday; the Eastertide does not end 'til the Pentecost, in seven weeks' time. So, happy Easter, dear readers! He lives! He lives!