width="425" height="344"> I’ve neglected this blog. Mostly because I started it to see if I could handle weekly deadlines for the Delmarva Quarterly , which is still in the process of developing the magazine beyond the borders of the page…and originally it was to be about arts in the rural areas, but I have neglected that focus as well. Whatever, right? It’s just a blog Today a list… The almost top ten Beatlesque records that the Beatles didn’t record. Yup. Sacrilege? Perhaps. My misspent youth found me as a record store clerk and music junkie. Not quite a snob, I don’t think. Not like Jack Black in High Fidelity, for the adults I looked up to had broad deep tastes in music, a textual understanding of great pop music vs. the “my indie band is better than yr indie band attitude” one often ran up against in aisles of the record store. If I was fortunate to work a shift with them the conversation and music enlarged my understanding of music and great songwriting,