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Sunday Burst

A few things for your consideration: :: Liam Neeson’s global reign of violence. :: A brief history of the dominion of the awfullest of apples, the Red Delicious. :: Daily rituals of great writers. More next week, if I’m so … Continue reading

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A Very Public Service Message

With delurking week pretty much over, I’m resetting comments so anonymous comments are no longer allowed. This is purely an anti-spam thing. Resuming life as we know it….

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Instaweeks!

Time to disappear again down the photographic rabbit hole! Let’s get the Flummoxing Felines out of the way first, shall we? And then there’s some recent food and such. The Daughter nagged me into deep dish pizza (I already don’t … Continue reading

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How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

A reader asks a good question: How much should a 10-year-old trumpet player practice daily? As in all such things, it depends. Such guidance should really be given with the advice of the kid’s music teacher, who knows a lot … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Want to hear something pretty today? Sure you do. Here is Sarah Chang performing Massanet’s Meditation de Thais.

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A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

You know, I still have people telling me how much sentence-diagramming rocks? You people got issues, man. Onto the next thing. By way of a writing update, here’s some wisdom from Mr. King: It seems to me that every task, even … Continue reading

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Well, there’s one “Aerial Dancer” off the streets….

Well, thank God that’s over. Seriously, this was just a terrible season of MasterChef. There were some fun moments and some contestants I liked enormously, but as the season ground on, it really took on an air of relentlessly shuffling toward … Continue reading

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Unlurkify thyselves!

I haven’t done this in a while, so here goes: it’s Delurking Week! Say something. For the next few days I’ll open things up to anonymous comments (although if spammers start swarming, I may need to cut things off early). … Continue reading

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What a bunch of A-holes.

If I were to offer a capsule review of Guardians of the Galaxy, it would be this: It’s the first movie that I have seen twice in a theater since Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. That means … Continue reading

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I’m not interested in being “normal”.

Let everybody else be “normal”. I ain’t got time for that! I’m just gonna keep right on being weird, thank you very much.

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