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    Archive for February, 2008

    More Cowbell and Creativity

    Friday, February 8th, 2008

    At the dinner table last night, my son brings up the SNL “More Cowbell” skit starring Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken.My daughter asks “I wonder how they thought up something so weird as the cowbell thing…” I explained that the Blue Oyster Cult song, “Fear the Reaper,” does, in fact, include a cowbell, which was [...]