This is a short piece promoting an old blog post by a friend that pokes fun at Billy Joel’s:”Piano Man”.
Category: Personal
The life and times of John Fontana — personal blog posts about things John is dealing with / going through / thinking of / experiencing.
The (Forced) New Look of JohnnyFomts.com
This blog needed a theme upgrade… Partly due to look, partly because it was not properly compatible with WordPress – and not been for years. But… Sunday night, I was casually messing around in a potential theme upgrade and I accidentally activated it. That would not be a big deal, just switch to the other…
Tampa Bay’s Pulse Radio is sadly in a still-beat [UODATED]
With a desire to introduce Tampa Bay more broadly to the work of independent musicians, Pulse Radiolacks a vet.s
Why tje lack of new posts? I’m in hell.
I need to post this update specifically because of frustrations that are dominating me.It ain’t much to say: Blindness and physical issues limiting my typing ability have stunted and stopped this blogger. And it sucks. NG2 sucks.
An Open Letter Request to the Tampa Bay Lightning
This has nothing to do with the team and gameplay. It has everything to do with the genetic menace few know of.
In search of Tampa Bay music for a Spotify playlist
More Tampa Bay music of the Adult Contemporary chill variety is sought to freshen up this Spotify playlist.
Regarding my absence ftom 2020 NHL playoff blogging and my social withdrawal online
As the Tampa Bay Lightning’s original blogger, I haven’t said much of anything about these belated playoffs. I’m not interacting much online either. Why?
Contemplating curating a weekly Spotify Playlist
Already doing a long, older playlist, launching a weekly Spotify playlist to highlight acts is an idea… But what would it bring me?
Johnny Fonts on Spotify; follow me, won’t you?
Come follow John Fontana, aka Johnny Fonts, on Spotify. How in-tune you find me is up to you.
TunedQuest: How the Radio Music Submissuib Resource Got Started
What happened that led to this forner sports blogger to start cinoukubf th radio/music submission [agenow known as TunedQuest.
For those looking for the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart archives
As someone who reflected on the Billboard Music chart archives to discover music as well as be reminded of classics from days-gone-by, I was a little taken aback gy the new paywall Gillghoard has put into place. Fees for access are growing common on the Interweb, but something like this? Yike$!.Nice cost to reflect on…
“Where are they now?” of hockey blogging?
Some people who did hockey blogging were major reads in their location. Others were the ONLY reads outside of mainstream media.
The stagnation of results with any and all attempts
An able, disabled online content production, music promoter/consultant, and lyricist-wanna-be struggles…and rambles about it here.
Fireworks or Kellog’s? You decide
if your lust in early July is for the snap, crackle, and pop from fireworks, might I suggest you go with the alternative means to accomplish such: Rice
“And I desperately need a manicure!” – The look, the feel, the folly
I’ve spent a bit of time the past month or two looking to simply upgrade The WordPress theme for this site. Too often the look isn’t something I want to build around. Lately, I’ve been finding interesting themes that have flaws that I can’t correct. It’s a distraction from writing, so I’m a little lapsed…
My love for hockey and the glory of the Stanley Cup
With the start of the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals, this long-time hockey blogger pulls up his words from 2014 and why he loves the Cup.
It certainly feels like networking – indie music promotion on Twitter
It’s nice to be reached out to and to see positive feedback when a musician releases new tunes. Vic Cracknell has done just that…
Personal note: I’ve taken back “Boltsmag”
Just a heads up: When I started blogging about hockey, the posts were published on Boltsmag.com. Upon me founding Raw Charge, I pointed the domain name at the new SB Nation site. All my archives are posted over there, after all. It’s been set up like that since 2009. With the two-year anniversary of my…
Wordiness and a would-be song; “Cool Dude, Loose Mood”
Poetry and I are not strangers, the evidence is here on the site in the “Creative Writing” section and elsewhere if you look around. I’ve been penning prose of one variety or another since the 1990’s. Yeah, I’m old. Deal with it. There are some that have inspired musicians to actually put the words to music….
It’s not very clear how to recycle Cochlear sound processor technology
I want to recycle Cochlear sound processor technology as well as accessories and Cochlear doesn’t lay out how to do that. And that’s bad.
Really… Just Do It
“Here’s a truism – everything is a big deal up until you actually do it. Don’t dwell or dread on doing something, making it so monumental that you make yourself sick. Just do it. You’ll deal with what comes next as it happens.” — John Fontana on Facebook, originally written Sept. 16, 2011
When events lead to self-realization and rolling along while lost at sea
I don’t know what was worse: How the news of Tuesday and the stepping-down of Steve Yzerman laid out one hell of a road bump for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2018-19 and the general road ahead… or the realization through that event that I’m not a hockey blogger any more. No, no, it’s not…
9/11 brought unity while we stand divided in the moment of the now
We stood together. In shock, in disbelief, in mourning, America stood together with social and political divisions irrelevant. We stood together as Americans. That continued for I-don’t-know how long or brief. We stood together. Now, today, we are foreign to each other. Enemies over what differences we can find and decisions we can…
Speaking of My Faith
I’m not comfortable talking about my faith and personal ties to religion but here’s back story on…me. It’s where I stand and what I believe and in some ways, how I came to it.
Finding relevance today in a 1978 television theme song
Do you ever get a television theme song in your head? Y’know, earworm type deal? Yet you go further, looking at the lyrics, and suddenly they take a new weight to them or just seem fitting for the moment in time that you (or life around you) are in? That’s my morning…
“Unity (We the People)” – a would-be song of protest
Late this spring, curiosity and recollection started pushing in my head toward music and what was going on in the political and social spheres. This isn’t the 1960’s but with how much upheaval has been playing out regularly – race attacks, propaganda, lies and distortions, pitting business and profit over the welfare of the country,…
Suffering an unsound situation – Epilogue: Sunrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgiQD56eWDk It’s odd when a song takes a new dimension in your life and you sob while listening to it. I’ll admit, I’ve been locked on to The Beatles and their 1969 classic audio impairment suffered by chance mid-summer. Mr. George Harrison, who penned “Here Comes the Sun”, was inspired by way of coming out…
The plight of a newbie lyricist marketing a song demo
Even if they aren’t into country music, my friends have been impressed. I’ve already unveiled it but here it is, all over again! A nineteen-year old poem converted into a would-be pop/country song! Slowly, Her Name Fades Away: Okay, so now what? Seriously, now what?