Free Holiday Hullabaloo
Hullabaloo, from San Diego, is my kids' current favorite children's music band—and mine, too.Hullabaloo singer and songwriter Steve Denyes has just put out a free download of Christmas songs: 15 minutes of fun. Check it out, and once you're hooked, buy one or more (or all) of Hullabaloo's five CDs!You can get Holiday Hullabaloo here.

Do the Right Thing
I love the last image in this poem by Adrian Matejka, "Do the Right Thing": "... the missed / free throw feeling in my chest." Something that was not your fault but feels like it was, like you missed the free throw and lost the game, when in fact, it was the star's terrible performance that blew it for your team.

Matthew Sweeney, Tim Turnbull, and Jan Wagner in Basel, November 4, 2009
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Human Shields play Rumpus with Miles Delpho
Here's my band Human Shields in its first "plugged" appearance, with my nine-year-old son Miles Delpho on drums. Miles is a student of Lorenz Hunziker at the Drum School Basel, and this event was the Open House of the Drum School.

Waste their presence in New York
Here's something fun (hat tip to Karin): Translation Party.Here's what it gave me when I entered the first lines of "Homeward Bound":But I'm really just a poor boy, I'm not talking a little about it. New York, has pledged the money to waste their presence in New York.