GK, that fucker, tagged me for a meme.

I'll post the five questions and my answers, then maybe tag a few other suckers at the end, to whom I will then become a fucker. Maybe I should have called this entry, "Meme: Fuckers and Suckers." Hee! OK here we go.( Read more... )

Dan Fogelberg, self portrait on the cover of Homefree, his first album, released in 1972.

Wow. I just heard on CNN that Dan Fogelberg has died of prostate cancer at the young age of 56. The news took my breath away. I haven't even thought about him in years, but his music was the soundtrack for the angstiest of my teen years. My friend Susan Egan (where are you, Susan???) and I used to sit on the floor listening to his records. She and I were the only two people we knew locally who even knew who Dan Fogelberg was. We knew something nobody else did, had discovered a secret gem that nobody else could appreciate like we could. We liked everything he did, from hillbilly-sounding bluegrass to his pop anthems.
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