Wednesday, July 04, 2012

The Green Mountain Boys

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Vermont, despite its place on the map, was not one of the original thirteen colonies. It was a sliver of territory lying west of New Hampshi...
Friday, June 29, 2012

iPod Log 8: a long morning walk.

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Kayaks in the East River off Brooklyn Bridge Park. My work schedule and other duties have kept me from doing the long version of my mor...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

A small victory in the apostrophe wars.

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Here's the original version , along with my rant (which made me, in Stephen Fry's eyes, a loser ). Yes, I think the old sign was...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

I missed Bloomsday, but it's never too late for Finnegan's Wake.

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So, the sixteenth of June passed, and unlike last year I did not go to the Ulysses' Folk House and do a reading ; I didn't even have...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf: why I'm mourning the death of a law firm, part 2.

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This is a continuation of the story that begins here . When I returned to LeBoeuf in 1973 from my Army stint, the firm had grown modestl...
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Saturday, June 02, 2012

Count Basie and Jackie Wilson cover Jerry Butler's "For Your Precious Love".

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A little over a year ago, I posted a clip of Count Basie and Jackie Wilson, great jazz and R&B artists, respectively, doing the Stevie ...
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About the annoying pop-up ads on this blog; or, how to get rid of Text-Enhance/DealPly

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You may have noticed, as I just did, that certain words in my posts are being highlighted--not the ones I've highlighted as links--and t...
Friday, June 01, 2012

Santana sits 'em down for the Mets.

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It only took them fifty seasons, but the Mets finally got a no-hitter . They got it off the arm of their ace, Johan Santana, who has had a...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Goodbye, Doc Watson

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I had the pleasure of taking in a performance by Doc Watson some years ago in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center. Doc died today at 89, not lo...

Dewey & LeBoeuf: the inevitable happens.

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As anyone following the story knows by now, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP filed for bankruptcy early today. The New York Times story notes that ...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Prison blues: Johnny Cash and Gram Parsons

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On my way home this evening, my iPod, on random shuffle, played "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash, then followed it with... ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Donna Summer, 1948-2012

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I hated disco when it dominated the party scene and the airwaves in the mid to late 1970s. Now that it's wrapped in the warm blanket of...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf: why I'm mourning the death of a law firm, part 1.

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"You're part of the legend." That's what another lawyer I had just met, who had formerly been a partner in the firm LeBo...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Moon Hooch: two saxes, a drummer, hot music and great views of New York City.

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Thanks to my daughter for showing me this great clip by eDsanca .
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Break up the Mets, Part II

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Ike Davis, who's had his (as sportswriters love to put it) struggles at the plate, hit a three run homer at Citizens Bank Park tonight...
Sunday, May 06, 2012

An almost-super moon over Brooklyn Heights

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Tonight's supermoon , or, as we here in Brooklyn Heights call it, Cosmo's moon , was obscured by clouds. Last night, walking home ...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

The San Patricios

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On this Cinco de Mayo , the day that Mexico celebrates its independence, I'm thinking about an incident in the long and fraught relatio...
Sunday, April 29, 2012

A train of thought leads me to a Jimmy Buffet song, and to waterbeds.

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I was thinking about now obscure early 1970s bands with silly names , and that led to thinking about songs with funny titles , and that led...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Goodbye, Levon Helm

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An Arkansas boy, Levon Helm joined up with fellow Razorback Ronnie Hawkins and followed him to Canada where, with the addition of some Can...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Break up the Mets!

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This sort of thing isn't supposed to be happening. I was delighted by their season opening sweep of the Braves , but I recalled a sim...

Brooklyn Brewery's "Sorachi Ace" beer.

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I'd had a taste of Brooklyn Brewery's Sorachi Ace beer at Borough President Marty Markowitz's presser for Dine in Brooklyn (...
Friday, April 13, 2012

Marshall Chapman's lament for her friend Tim Krekel

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Almost three years ago I posted a video clip and some text about Marshall Chapman performing with her friend Tim Krekel and his band at ...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

Mets complete three game sweep of Braves.

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If the AP wire says so it must be true. I never dreamed they would go undefeated this deep into the season. So far, everything seems to b...

Easter Hymn from Cavalleria Rusticana.

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The Easter Hymn from Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana is here performed by the chorus of the Geneva (Switzerland) Amateur O...
Saturday, April 07, 2012

David Amram, Paquito D'Rivera, Dave Coles, and Lion's Head Alums on an April evening.

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Composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist, and raconteur par excellence David Amram put on a show at the Greenwich Village venue Cornelia ...
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Mets in three way tie for first in NL East.

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Is this a bad sign? My wife, a Red Sox fan, is convinced that a good start always betokens a later collapse. She should take heart: the Sox ...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

"Ride On, Ride On in Majesty", King's College Choir, Cambridge

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I was thinking I should find an appropriate post for Palm Sunday; checking Facebook, I found it, courtesy of another Grace Church, this one...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Austin-Healey Sprite

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I took this photo of an Austin-Healey Sprite Mark II, III or IV --the three models' exteriors are, to me, visually indistinguishable--...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

The big and the small: Torm Thames and Patrick Sky

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As I earlier noted here , Brooklyn Pier 7, which lies next to Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 6, sometimes serves as a temporary berth for ...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Lady Day: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Annunciation.

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March 25 is the traditional day to celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, though on this year's Episcopal Liturgical Calendar it ha...
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