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Tone Poem Tuesday

We started 2024 in the usual fashion: with the Vienna Philharmonic. Here is the delightful and traditional end to that concert: On the Beautiful Blue Danube followed by the Radetzy March. Note our conductor, Christian Thielemann, directing the audience’s rhythmic clapping. That … Continue reading

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How Superman’s Butt Saved Christmas

(Blame SamuraiFrog for this one, folks — he gave me the title! I deny all accountability. Except for the part where I write the following tale. Which I’m doing stream-of-conscious, right off the top of my head. No editing.) Lore … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!

In college, every year we did a big Christmas Pageant thing, a big concert of sacred music performed by the combined forces of the concert band, the choir, and the jazz vocal group. This was all tied together by a … Continue reading

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Two photos, five words

Daisy has opinions. It begins.

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The Chairman of the Board will see you now.

    Sheila O’Malley has a typically lovely post about Frank Sinatra, whose birthday is today. I started composing a comment on her site, but then I realized that my thoughts were getting away from me, so I decided to … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

One of the eternal questions in relating to art is how to separate one’s feeling for the art from one’s feelings for the artist. This is not the least bit new; it’s a problem that is probably as old as … Continue reading

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The moon…

…fading fast.

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Something for Thursday

Back, at last, to Leonard Cohen, while it’s still September. This time, we’ll look at “Take This Waltz”. I’ve only heard “Take This Waltz” either on its own or in the context of a Cohen Greatest Hits album, so I … Continue reading

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Boy Adopts Cat….

Cal, who loves cats, adopted a new one recently. His new cat, a female, suddenly started nesting under the covers in his bed. Cal now knows why…and he now owns five cats. Awwww!    

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Apollo at Fifty (a repost)

  Sam Seaborn: There are a lot of hungry people in the world, Mal, and none of them are hungry ‘cause we went to the moon. None of them are colder and certainly none of them are dumber ‘cause we … Continue reading

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