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Final two posts about the month.

Joni Mitchell singing "Big Yellow Taxi" in Kunstler in a Big Yellow Taxi.

Thomas Dolby performing "Wind Power" in Nuclear fusion; better news than flying cars.

I'm already a week into the next Nablopomo theme, Play. If that looks familiar, it's because I did it two years ago on my LiveJournal.

Follow up to last week's post.

This week's songs and the posts that feature them are:

• "Rollercoaster" by B*Witched in Riding the gas price rollercoaster
• "First Full Moon" by Sufjan Stevens in The first year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News: Part 4 of several
• "Tax Man" by The Beatles in Repost: A rant on an anti-tax meme
• "Countdown" by Rush in Discovery makes final flight but to D.C. not space
• "Bandstand Boogie" by Barry Manilow in Three urban farming stories and a funeral
• "Stranglehold" by Ted Nugent in Ted Nugent, stochastic terrorist
• "Black Water" by The Doobie Brothers in Deepwater Horizon damaged psyches, too

Finally, the first post of the next week is already up.

I completely missed reposting any of my posts from Crazy Eddie's Motie News for March on the Nablopomo theme of Whether. Bad dog, no biscuits. I'll get around to organizing and posting linkspams from last month eventually. In the meantime, I'll resume my regular weekly summaries of the Nablopomo posts for April. This month, the theme is poetry. Here's what I wrote on April Fools Day.

From Nablopomo on BlogHer:

So what is the NaBloPoMo theme of the month?
POEM
In honour of National Poetry Month in April, we've made the theme POEM -- which can go in a multitude of directions. First and foremost, you can try your hand at writing some poetry. We'll be presenting a few fixed forms as well as prompts for free forms. Make a personal goal to write a haiku-a-day, write an entire post in rhymed couplets, or argue the merits of Pinterest... in sestina form.

We'll be writing about our reactions to poems -- which poems have come up at important moments in your life? Which poems do you return to again and again? Which poems have changed your mood, given you comfort, or made you want to be a poet yourself?

We'll spend the month looking at reflections of poetry in nature and social situations. And we'll be featuring YOUR poetry weekly. So get your poem on.

When I first read the theme and description, I considered not participating, as I'm not big on poetry. I especially had a hard time squaring the theme with a blog about sustainability, science, and politics, although "poetry in nature" might work. Then I realized that there were some forms of poetry that I liked, limericks and song verses. Most limericks wouldn't be fit for a family blog, but I can always find a good song for my posts. So, I'm participating again this month.

The songs that I've featured so far are:

• "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby in Nablopomo for April: Poem
• "Heat Wave" by Martha and the Vandellas in March was a heat wave for Detroit and other cities
• "(Nothing but) Flowers" by The Talking Heads and performed by David Byrne and Thomas Dolby in Post 500: (Nothing but) Flowers at TED
• "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley and performed by CNN anchor Robin Meade in Olbermann on Letterman with bonus Dirty Laundry
• "Let the Good Times Roll" by The Cars in Auto sales up and that's no April Fools
• "Ignoreland" by R.E.M. in Rachel Maddow: Michigan is now Ignoreland
• "Why" from the album "Mystery to Me" by Fleetwood Mac in The first year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News: Part 3 of several

There will be more next week, as I already have another post up.

Happy reading and happy listening!