To my mind and ear, The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?” is perhaps the finest love song ever written, with “God Only Knows” a close second. Growing up, the Beach Boys were all surfin’ tunes and Kokomo, and I really hated them. I remember seeing them perform on some big televised event, and being disgusted that they were neither boys nor beach. (This was before the John Stamos atrocities, even.) But I’ve come to greatly appreciate some of their work from the early/mid-sixties.

It’s fight night in the White household. You should be here to see this. From the freezer to believer.

I’ve tried several times now to enter Henri Cole’s Middle Earth, but apparently, I cannot find the right angle of entry. I do not know if I should be discouraged by now.

My spell-checker in Microsoft Word is broken, perhaps a remnant of my ill-fated attempts to go the way of Open Office.