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Author Archives: ksedinger
Tuesday Tones
OK, I think we’re going to wrap up the short survey of classical works that either appeared, or were composed, in 1925, thus giving us an idea of where classical music was one hundred years ago. (I’m not bored of … Continue reading
One source of local inspiration
Here’s a video about a local photographer, Pat Cray, whose work I’ve been following for a year or so now, since I discovered it. He does Buffalo-centric street photography, which suits me perfectly: I love Buffalo, and I love street … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, On Exploring Photography
Tagged Buffalo, Photography (the subect)
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Goodness! (And an ABC quiz thing)
Wow, I haven’t posted here since last Tuesday? Oh noes!!! Nothing major or nefarious or bad is going on. In fact, it’s going pretty well. I’ve been on vacation since I left work on Wednesday, and I don’t return to work … Continue reading
The Tones of Tuesday
Continuing my small survey of the classical music of 1925, one hundred years ago, we have a work by one of the most interesting composers of the 20th century. George Antheil is mainly known as an “avant-garde” composer, and in … Continue reading
“Mr. Looper? Where did YOU come from?”
Maybe I’ll make Monday the day I post something new and kooky that I’ve learned lately…kind of like the old “Sunday Burst of Weirdness” I used to post back in the old Byzantium’s Shores days. Anyway, here’s something I didn’t know, and wow, … Continue reading
“YOU OVER-OFFICIOUS JERK!” (or, Happy 100th Birthday, Marv Levy)
Marv Levy, the great football coach who guided the Buffalo Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls from 1990-1993 during his Hall-of-Fame career, is 100 years old this day. Those Bills teams hold a strong place on my emotional life, even … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, On Sport
Tagged Buffalo, Sport, WNY Love Letter
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Something for Thursday
I just finished a remarkable novel the other night, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos. The book is a slow burn of a novel about the life of a man (told as a series of memories as he … Continue reading
Posted in On Books, On Movies, On Music
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A guest in our milkweed
A much hoped-for phenomenon has come to pass: there is a little friend making a major change in his life, and he’s doing it in the milkweed outside our front door. (OK, he hasn’t started his actual transition yet. But … Continue reading
Posted in On Nature, Photographic Documentation
Tagged Nature, Photo Posts
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The Tones of Tuesday
UPDATE: Apparently my fingers weren’t doing things right when I wrote this post, as I came up with two different spellings of “Respighi”. This has been fixed. Weird how some words and names just defy our fingers, for those of … Continue reading
A brief thought on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Killing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a particularly galling move. True, I knew it was coming, but even so…it’s just so frustrating watching Republicans kill everything that actually made this the country I grew up in, as they set … Continue reading →