Deer Hunt Music Day

I leave this afternoon for my great-uncle-in-law's place a few miles outside a Todd County hamlet. I'm not going in to the office, but calling in for a meeting, busy time of year and all.

I wonder what songs will by my earworms out on the stand. My first year hunting was the year of the Halloween Blizzard, and I can still remember staring across a snow-covered field with "Lola" in my head. Just parts of it, really, as I wasn't particularly familiar with the tune, and I had heard it on my father's oldies radio station on the pickup ride out to the country. So really, I was just spelling "Cherry Cola" and "Lola" for hours.

In a more recent year, I've had the English-Language works of Säkert! (that is, the Hello Saferide discography) on mental loop. (Aside: new Hello Saferide!?!?! I thought she had retired that.) Oh crap, I just listened to "Anna" again. I'm wrecked right now and I may be singing that to myself all weekend.

Update: Hello Saferide is still great. Feel free to follow those youtube links and join me down this rabbit hole.

Happy Birthday–November 7

Chris Von der Ahe (1851)
Ed "The Only" Nolan (1857)
Bill Brubaker (1910)
Dick Stuart (1932)
Jake Gibbs (1938)
Jim Kaat (1938)
Joe Niekro (1944)
Buck Martinez (1948)
Willie Norwood (1950)
Guy Sularz (1955)
Orlando Mercado (1961)
Russ Springer (1968)
Todd Ritchie (1971)
Glendon Rusch (1974)
Esmerling Vasquez (1983)
Danny Santana (1990)

Promoter/entrepreneur Chris von der Ahe, referred to as "Bill Veeck with a handlebar mustache", owned the St. Louis franchise from 1882-1899.

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