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Tuesday Tones

Here’s a piece I heard last week on my drive home from work. I was immediately transfixed by its color and energy, to the point that I sat in my car in the driveway while it finished. The composer is … Continue reading

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Exercise caution…

…when eating popcorn while wearing overalls. Sometimes after an afternoon or evening at the cinema I’ve had to shake myself out. It’s not a great look, folks. (Now, you’d think I’d wise up and choose one of my many pairs … Continue reading

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An observation

It’s quite a jolt when you’re watching a marathon of The Office and you catch the last three episodes and then it goes right back to Season One, Episode One. Another observation: I’ve no idea how people deal with commercials … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

The birthday of the great Jerry Goldsmith was the other day, on the 10th. And honestly, Goldsmith deserves a more poetic tribute than I’ve got in me right now, because it’s late in the work week and I’m tired and … Continue reading

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Shadows

The moon shone bright and clear last night. Look at these shadows in my backyard!

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Tuesday Tones

Nkeiru Okoye was born in New York City in 1972 to a Nigerian father and an African-American mother. She graduated from Oberlin in 1993, which is the same year I graduated Wartburg College. Okoye is almost entirely contemporary with me. … Continue reading

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One dog, two cats

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Super Bowl Trivia!

Here we go again! No, I’m not watching. I haven’t actually watched a Super Bowl since Seahawks-Broncos, and that was eleven years ago. (And I doubt I’d have watched had the Bills made it, in all honesty. That would be … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Maestro John Williams!

Today John Williams turns 93. His music stands as one of the undisputed bright spots and creative forces behind my own life; to recall a time in my life when I was not keenly aware of his music I have … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Paul Le Mat in American Graffiti: Buddy Holly died February 3, 1959, 66 years ago. That’s an entire lifetime, almost…possibly several lifetimes. Had he lived to this day, he would be 88 years old, certainly not outside the realm of possibility. … Continue reading

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