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Tone Poem Tuesday

I suppose it’s something of a cliche: the composer who aspires to serious work and yet finds their greatest success in crafting music for the popular world. Such was the fate of Robert Russell Bennett, whose name will be well … Continue reading

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[shudders]

I’m not going to wait until my “Movies from the second half of 2024” post for this one: This is the kind of movie you’d think was entirely contrived from a deeply silly notion until you learn that it’s essentially … Continue reading

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A little Stealing on a Sunday

OK, I’m up early on a Sunday drinking coffee and we’re hoping to get to Letchworth today, but I’ll just toss off a quick quiz-thing! And I’m doing this one before I read Roger‘s answers! What’s the best birthday party … Continue reading

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Marisol

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Twenty-two

That’s how long Sheila O’Malley has been blogging. In her honor, a movie scene:

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Something for Thursday (Mitzi Gaynor edition)

Actress and singer Mitzi Gaynor has died. She was 93, and she was one of the very last remaining stars with ties to the great era of the Hollywood movie musical. Her biggest role was likely South Pacific, the Rodgers-and-Hammerstein classic … Continue reading

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Apples

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Dame Judith Weir is a British composer with whose work I am entirely unfamiliar except for the present work, which I just heard for the first time the other day. But my lack of knowledge of Weir’s music shouldn’t be … Continue reading

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Light through yonder trees

You don’t always need to wander far to find great subjects and scenes for photos. I took this while walking the doggos just around the corner from our house.

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A writer no more???

At the end of my adventures I was drinking a case of sixteen-ounce tallboys a night, and there’s one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all. I don’t say that with pride or shame, only with a vague … Continue reading

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