Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

Bad Joke Friday

From the Mojave County Miner, Arizona, in 1911:

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Something for Thursday

EDIT: So I’m sitting up last night and I suddenly realize it’s Thursday and I hadn’t posted anything. What I had forgotten is that I had previously written and scheduled a Thursday thing last week, which is something I do … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

This speaks for itself.

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Today is the anniversary of D-Day. In their honor, here is John Williams’s Hymn to the Fallen.

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“I beheld, through the mists, a glittering city….”

Via Sheila O’Malley. Click through to see the photo larger.

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Bad Joke Friday

Via Roger (and I’m not sure this is actually a “bad” joke…it’s kinda clever, actually….): What’s the difference between a stepstool and a 3D printer? The former is a ladder and the latter is a former!

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Something for Thursday

I was watching a clip from the movie Gigi the other day, and this video was suggested as a follow-up. It’s from a teevee show that aired in 1961. Hard to believe that this was almost sixty years ago.

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“He’ll save every one of us!”

So a couple of weeks ago I attended a special screening of a very special movie: This was in conjunction with Buffalo’s new comic-con, Nickel City Con, and what a night it was! In 1980, at the height of the … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

John Williams may be the most famous film composer in history, but he has also done a fair amount of composing for the concert hall. This piece is a good example. His concert work tends to be slightly programmatic, often … Continue reading

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Larry Havers, 1946-1967

Fourteen years ago I wrote the following on Memorial Day, and I wanted to revisit it. It’s about the Vietnam Veteran whose name I remember, despite the fact that I had no relation to him and clearly never knew him, … Continue reading

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