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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Tone Poem Tuesday
Some years ago I wrote about the Oliver Stone movie Nixon, which is a sort of companion piece to his JFK. As in the earlier film, John Williams provided the score, and it’s an underrated standout in his long parade … Continue reading
There’s something NEW here, I know it!!!
The dee-oh-gee walks the same neighborhood every day, usually three times. He passes the same shrubs and the same trees and the same lampposts. And he stops each and every time to smell them. Like this rock. More often than … Continue reading
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Bad Joke Friday
Ayup: Evidence has been found that William Tell and family were avid bowlers. However, all the league records were destroyed in a fire and we’ll never know for whom the Tells bowled.
Come on, ONE of you has gotta go!
This United Airlines fiasco is quite the thing, from the bizarre legality of a business being allowed to sell more of a product than it can actually provide (most other businesses would be accused of fraud if they tried that), … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
I know it’s late in the day, so here’s something for the setting of evening and night: one of Chopin’s most famous Nocturnes. Way back when I was taking piano lessons, I remember that I started working on this piece, … Continue reading
Yikes!!!
I can’t believe I’ve gone close to four months without posting here. The time has not been wasted, folks — but I have really fallen behind on some things. BUT, I am indeed making progress! The long-promised Amongst the Stars … Continue reading
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Tone Poem Tuesday
If you listen to this overture without knowing what it is, as I did the other morning when it came on the radio, you might think — especially at the end — that it’s a very British work. Something about … Continue reading
Improving the Books
There’s a thing going around the Interwebs where it’s said that you can automatically make any book better by inserting the sentence “And then the murders began” right after the first sentence. I didn’t believe this, so I tested it … Continue reading
“Let me help” (Thoughts on “The City on the Edge of Forever”, on its 50th anniversary)
Edith Keeler: And you, um, don’t want to talk about it? Why? Oh. Did you… did you do something wrong? Are you afraid of something? Whatever it is, let me help. Capt. Kirk: “Let me help.” A hundred years or … Continue reading
Something for Thursday
Emmylou Harris just turned 70. Like many a great artist, I actually haven’t heard that much of her music over the years. As I’ve noted before — just last week! — my relationship with country music is complicated, and Harris … Continue reading