Neil Diamond’s song Cracklin’ Rosie is actually about a type of wine drunk by a native Canadian tribe that Diamond had visited in Canada. I thought it was about a certain type of woman. It was one of my favorite oldies songs as a kid. I remember listening to the oldies station 93.1 on our very old little green radio. I used to call into the station and request songs. One time I requested, Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You by Franky Valli  and dedicated to my bassethound Freckles. They played my request and that it was for my dog and I just ran around my room screaming and jumping. Good times!

I have discovered the names of two movies that used to scare the bejesus out of me when I a kid. One is an old 1988 film called The Lady in White and I remember watching it one day at my after-school care. Scared me good. The second movie was brought back to my attention this past Halloween by Keith’s brother’s family. They started playing a movie called Something Wicked this Way Comes and sure enough it was the other movie that gave me nightmares!

Intaglio is pronounced in-tal-ee-oh, not in-TAG-leo. I was a little disappointed when they said it the wrong way in a CSI: Miami episode.

Exquisite corpse (also known as “exquisite cadaver” or “rotating corpse”) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. I vaguely remember doing this project in grade school but had forgotten about it until a recent assignment in a photography class.

In 2007 Rick Astley became the subject of a viral Internet meme in which an estimated 25 million Internet users were tricked into watching Rick Astley’s video “Never Gonna Give You Up” by posting it under the name of other popular video titles. The practice is now known as Rickrolling.