Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Kitty Wells

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She was "The Queen of Country Music." Born and raised in Nashville, Ellen Muriel Deason found her voice in church. She married Jo...
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Sunday, July 15, 2012

S.S. United States breaks transatlantic speed record: a movie newsreel from 1952.

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A year ago this past February, I posted about the S.S. United States getting at least a temporary reprieve from the threat of going for s...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Jacques Brel. Ne me quitte pas.

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Happy Bastille Day!
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Dewey & LeBoeuf: why I'm mourning the death of a law firm, part 3.

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This is the conclusion of a story that begins here and was continued here . For a time, I occupied an office next door to that of Charl...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Real baseball wins: NL 8, AL 0.

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"The National League Gets Serious" is the headline on Lynn Zinser's New York Times piece about yesterday's All Star Ga...
Monday, July 09, 2012

So, what's all this fuss about the Higgs boson?

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Why is it called the Higgs? It was named for Peter Higgs (see video above), a theoretical physicist now retired from the faculty of the U...
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...