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Something for Thursday

Some film music today! John Barry is a composer whose work is…well, I don’t want to say it all sounds the same, because it doesn’t, but his sound is unique and unmistakable. He gets about as close to “It all … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

It’s not a tone poem. It’s also not a piece that I even like. I’ve never liked this piece. I didn’t like it when I played it in college. I didn’t like it when Torvill and Dean skated to it. … Continue reading

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Eleven years….

I’ve no idea how it’s been that long since we said goodbye.

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I hope they’re serving pork chops and applesauce in Heaven

Awww, Florence Henderson passed away! That’s sad, but I have to salute her long and entertaining life. Like most people my age (I suspect), she’s firmly ensconced in my memory as Carol Brady of The Brady Bunch, a show which … Continue reading

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Bad Joke Friday

The Wife told me this one, so you can all blame her if you like: What’s the cheapest cut of meat? Deer balls! Why? They’re under a buck!

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Something for Thursday (Thanksgiving edition)

Well…I dunno, folks. I personally have had a relatively decent 2016, but outside my own little sphere, my God, this year has been a disaster. What year was worse? 1914? 1929? 1939? I’ve no idea. And the year ends with … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Tchaikovsky! Technically this isn’t a “tone poem”; Tchaikovsky himself called it a “Fantasy overture”. But for the purposes of this series I take a pretty expansive definition of “tone poem” anyway, so here’s Romeo and Juliet.

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ADMIRE THE KITTEH

My mother owns a great-looking cat. Look at him. LOOK AT HIM, I SAY!!! (Photo processed using a Prisma app filter)

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Bad Joke Friday

From the Twitter feed “Shit Jokes” (helps to know your chemistry!): Wanna talk about Sodium? Na Nitric Oxide? NO Oxygen Magnesium Phosphorus Iodine Sulfur or Fluorine? OMg PISS OFF Potassium? K

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Something for Thursday

It’s interesting to compare the noble messages at the heart of two of my favorite movies, both set in World War II. On the one hand, “The problems of two little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in … Continue reading

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