Well, if anyone were actually reading this, which isn’t going to happen until I tell anyone about it, “where have I been” might seem to refer to my lack of posting for a while. Actually, it’s more about how did I miss a precious nugget of popular culture. I don’t know if it really is all that popular. But I was lying in bed in my usual sleepless state when, at about 3AM I found myself humming Malvina Reynolds’ “Little Boxes” and googled it because I couldn’t remember all the words. And discovered that this song is now the theme song for a TV program “Weeds” and that in this context it has been recorded by a variety of performers in a variety of styles. My favorite is the one by Angelique Kidjo.
It’s a natural for this, but how ironic that it took a commercial TV show to make it happen. What *would* Malvina be thinking?