Monday, January 28, 2008

School Days (1)

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"Good old golden rule days..."--what does that mean anyway? Nuns rapping your knuckles with a ruler? Schoolyard bullies stealing y...
Wednesday, January 23, 2008

A Local Habitation

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"A picture is worth a thousand words"; a typical cliche with much truth beneath the gloss. As one who has made his living as a wri...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Martin Luther King

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Honoring today's celebration of Martin Luther King and all that he and the other Civil Rights heroes stood for, I commend to your attent...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Venus Reborn

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Feeling the pressure of new year necessities, so today I've decided to return to the saga of Down Under, 1986 (see two previous entries)...
Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Blasted Outback

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((Returning on the Indian-Pacific train, heading back from Perth (this time to dip south for visits to Melbourne and Adelaide), we again had...
Thursday, January 3, 2008

Train Time

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((The sad demise of American railroads and current sorry state of AmTrak versus some embarrassingly excellent trains still zipping and chugg...
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Friday, December 28, 2007

Of Harvests and Rivers

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In the late Thirties, a few U.S. composers moved on from Modernism (or maybe they backed away), revisiting sounds more native to America. Aa...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

EnZed Revisited

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'Tis the season of other demands, so today I say: Merry Christmas to all Readers, and y'all Who've stopped by chance: Enjoy the ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Sinking Down Under

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In 1985, I decided I'd had enough--I'd experienced college/grad school and/or working steady since 1959, a marriage ended badly, two...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Encounters in Store

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Sandie and I owned a bookstore in Seattle's busy tourist-draw, the Pike Place Market, for 10 years (1992-2002). Business was fine for th...
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Saturday, December 8, 2007

The Nights Escape Without Us

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When I started this blog, it was really aimed at telling my life story a bit at a time, because I knew I was too lazy to write some sort of ...
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Sunday, December 2, 2007

Last Time Around (Part 2)

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((Continuing with the Rick Nelson piece, we resume after the release of Nelson in Concert ...)) During the next year, Rick and the Stone Ca...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Ozzie and Harriet's Son

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Here's an old Fusion piece from 1972 that I really enjoyed "researching" and writing (edited now to remove much of the record ...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Composer Cranks, Composed Cranes

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Thinking of Classical Music adventures for my previous post, and now reading a compelling new book detailing the history of such music over ...
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Too Late to Stop Now (Part 3)

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I've been pondering the futility of trying to convey in a few paragraphs the richness of hundreds of music-going experiences over the co...
Friday, November 9, 2007

Rock Redeemed (Part 2)

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I regret never having attended performances by many of America's heavy-hitters... Magic Sam, Howling Wolf, and Sonny Boy Williamson (the...
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