Alphabet Playlist - "Love is Strange" - Mickey & Sylvia

This song makes me want to add "loverboy" to my vocabulary.

I really wanted to show the Dirty Dancing clip, but embedding is disabled.

Alphabet Playlist - "Look What You've Done" - Jet

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone.

Alphabet Playlist - "Jane Fonda" - Mickey Avalon

Want to burn some calories? This video is just one example of the many ways you could do that to this song. I wish the video quality was better, but that's what happens when you're dubbing off an 80's VHS tape.

Alphabet Playlist - "Inna Di Car Back" - Mavado

When I studied abroad in Saint Lucia, Mavado was all over the radio. Here we have a hypothetical example of what would happen if hip hop and reggae got together (in the biblical sense) and produced a musical offspring.

Biblical Translations

In the Old Testament, a young woman, or maiden, was called “almah.” However, in the Septuagint, this word is translated into the Greek as “parthenos” which means, more precisely, “a virgin.” This is complicated because the Book of Matthew, in the New Testament, quotes this Greek translation and describes Jesus as being “born of a virgin.” However, in the Hebrew, the direct translation would have been “born of a young woman.” This linguistic nuance between Hebrew and Greek can be very contentious, as you might imagine.

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Lady Gaga Quote

"I can't sleep with a man who dims my shine." - Gaga

Bridesmaids Quote

"How many dogs did you take?" - Annie
"I took 9. Yea, I ah, I did slightly over commit to the whole dog thing. Turns out I am probably more comfortable with 6. It's a lot, a lot of energy to deal with." - Megan