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Something for Thursday

There is an orchestra in Prague that specializes in concert performances of film music. I did not know this! It is called, appropriately enough, the Prague Film Orchestra, and they have a YouTube that is loaded with their performances. Here … Continue reading

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Take THAT, Home Depot!!!

Shopping for paint the other day for work, and I saw this. Yes, I laughed. I thought it wonderfully and subversively funny. Somehow this would be a lot less funny at Lowe’s.

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Tone Poem Tuesday

I get asked all the time: “Hey, when you were a young musician, what was the first Sousa march you ever played?” [RON HOWARD NARRATOR VOICE: This is false. Nobody asks him this.] OK, fine, but anyway: when I was … Continue reading

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An offering for World Photography Day

I took the above image last Tuesday, when I spent the entire business part of the day walking around the city of Buffalo, taking photos of streetscapes and doing street photography. This was part of an eight-day vacation I took … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Longtime readers will recognize (I hope!) the name of Russian composer Vasily Kalinnikov, who was a deeply gifted composer who seemed destined to rise to towering greatness in late Russian Romanticism had he not sadly died of tuberculosis when he … Continue reading

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Sunday Stealing!

I’m actually on vacation and the days have been packed, which is why I haven’t posted a whole lot the last few days. My current vacation doesn’t end until Thursday morning, when I go back to work, so who knows if … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Sometimes you just need a bit of Bach, so…here’s a bit of Bach. This is Hillary Hahn, playing the third movement of the Partita No. 3 in E Major. This is very likely the first work of Bach’s that I … Continue reading

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Cause and Effect

The SHOT is the joke I made on Threads: Tim Walz is a Lutheran, apparently, which means that if the D ticket wins, food at the Inaugural Balls will be ALL THE CASSEROLES, Y’ALL The CHASER is the several hundred, as of … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday (oops, it’s Wednesday edition)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This post was cued up and ready to go and then the person responsible for clicking “publish” did not execute. Unfortunately that person cannot be sacked, as that person is also the person writing this and the content … Continue reading

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Round and round and round….

I’ve been a big fan of roundabouts for years. It’s utterly clear to me that as annoying as it can be to approach one when you’re behind someone who doesn’t know what to do, roundabouts are still much easier to … Continue reading

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