May 20, 2021, 8:12 p.m.

Publisher’s Evening Plan Released

“Eat dinner, jitterbug, take a bath, brush teeth, lotion, put on jammies, read a book, go to bed, get a hug, story, and boom that's it”

The Daily Kina

I’m not saying Kina’s a creature of habit, but every time I have to negotiate a night without jitterbug1, it really throws things off.

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The eighties critical smash hit, “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”, as performed by Wham!, though Kina and I refer to it as a George Michael number—which is basically all Wham! tunes, if you ask me. Hear me out: If you have not listened to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” in a few years, go pop it on the ol’ hi-fi and give it a whirl. Spend some time listening to the bass guitar and you will have a totally different view of George Michael’s formidable musical genius. The man really invested a lot of time in his basslines, which no performer with a jawline like that should really need to. Jitterbug.

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