Weird synchronicity

Today, looking south from Wild Iris Ridge Park's main path near parking lot

    I have not been rising fresh in the morning ready to blog lately. Often I’ll move from making coffee directly to activating Studio B for a morning RFR show. But not today. Instead, I made a to-do list of sorts, in order to summon a bout of productivity. Then I had breakfast and went grocery shopping. Then I checked off (actually, struck thru) a small handful of the list items. Then I took a nap. Then we went for a hike at Wild Iris Ridge park. Back home, after lunch and another nap, I finally got on the air (enjoy the program recording here). THEN, after dinner, we watched S1E2 of Psych. 

Speaking of Psych, there was a weird synchronicity in the episode. Earlier, during my radio show—using a randomized arbitrarily derived playlist—I played Bananarama’s cover of Shocking Blue’s “Venus.” I knew the Shocking Blue version, but for some reason I had no idea that Bananarama had covered it. I mean, why should I know that? It only “…peaked at number one in the United States, Australia, Finland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Switzerland, while reaching number two in Germany and the top-ten in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom (number eight on the UK Singles Chart, matching the same peak of Shocking Blue's version). It also topped the US Dance Club Songs chart for two weeks.” (Wikipedia)

ANYWAY, during this evening’s episode of Psych, main character Shawn Spencer at one point impersonates a spelling bee master and grabs a shopping list next to him on the desk for the words (much to Gus’s consternation). One of the words he gives is “banana,” which the contestant (hilariously) asks him to use in a sentence. And the sentence he replies with includes a reference to “Venus” by Bananarama. So weird, dude!

Hey! My rambling turned into a blog post. Love it when that happens. Thanks for reading.