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Bad Joke Friday

The Wife found this the other day.

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Something for Thursday

Sorry for the radio silence the last few days. The reason? The usual! Writing a novel, editing another one, and trying to do more reading after a depressingly slack 2016 in the reading department. Here’s some Wagner.

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Bad Joke Friday

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Something for Thursday

I heard this on my way to work this morning. It really needs no introduction, so here’s the Overture to The Barber of Seville by Rossini.

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Richard Thompson and CUL DE SAC

2016 was an awful year for creative people passing away, but one death that I didn’t see a whole lot of comment about was that of cartoonist Richard Thompson of complications from Parkinson’s Disease. Thompson was the brilliant mind behind … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Not really a tone poem, but a concert overture, by Dmitri Shostakovich. This is not a long work, but it is a particularly invigorating one. As the weather today in my neck o’ the woods is gray and gloomy and … Continue reading

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2016: Stuff I Wrote

I kept on blogging in 2016, but the focus was more on picture posts and music links than anything else. Still, I did come up with some things that I liked: Top Five Fictional Presidents Behold the Hunter! Plaid Leaving … Continue reading

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2016 in review (or, “Whew, at least THAT’s over.”)

2016. This was a terrible, terrible year. Maybe not for me personally, but there really was a sense this year – for me, at least – that a long era of potential optimism, which managed to keep flickering even through … Continue reading

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“You are my lucky star….” (Something for Thursday)

Under any other circumstances, I would greet the passing of Debbie Reynolds with a tip of the hat and a congratulations to her for exiting a long and wonderful life in which she did many amazing things. But her daughter, … Continue reading

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“To me, she is royalty.”

Thank you, Carrie Fisher.

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