Thursday, September 06, 2012

Elvis Presley, Floyd Cramer and Auto-Tune

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"Heartbreak Hotel" is one of the first rock and roll songs I can remember hearing. I was ten years old, riding in my parents'...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Henri 2, Paw de Deux, winner of the Golden Kitty

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This was the winner of "the first ever cat video film festival" . Unlike the star of this show, my cats don't seem to suffer ...
Saturday, September 01, 2012

Lest we forget what Labor Day is about: Woody Guthrie on the Ludlow Massacre...

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Happy 67th, Van Morrison; here's "Tupelo Honey"

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Thanks for all the music over the years, beginning with "Brown Eyed Girl" on the jukebox of a little sandwich shop in Cambridge,...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Self-Absorbed Boomer at Seven

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When I started this blog on August 30, 2005, I think I would have been surprised to know it would still be going on that date in 2012. Nev...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA

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I have a weakness for India pale ales, or "IPAs".  On our recent visit to Cape Cod our host, whose brew judgment I've come ...
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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Neil Armstrong, 1930-2012

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It was a rainy night in eastern Pennsylvania on July 20, 1969, and I was prone on the ground, next to some shrubbery, a poncho draped over ...

Joy of Cooking (the band, not the book).

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Well, I know Kris and Rita, and Marty Mull Are meeting at the Troubadour, We'll get it on with the Joy of Cooking While the crowd c...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Cape Cod wine? Yes. Truro Vineyards' 2009 Cabernet Franc.

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On our recent visit to Cape Cod (also see here ) we shopped at  Main Street Wine & Gourmet in Orleans. While there, I noticed a dis...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Michael Simmons on Bob Dylan's Tempest

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Above is a video of the song "Duquesne Whistle" from Bob Dylan's new album Tempest, . My friend Michael Simmons has this comme...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Reports that the Oxford comma had been found redundant, was expunged, and would be seen no more, were exaggerated.

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My wife gave me a scare a few days ago by announcing that the Oxford comma had been dropped from the Oxford Style Manual . As it turns out, ...
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Sunday, August 05, 2012

Choreography for Curiosity's landing.

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The newest, biggest, and best ever Mars rover, Curiosity , will be landing on Mars tonight at 1:31 a.m. EDT.  Read about it and watch a vi...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Cape Cod sunset.

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Sunset over Cape Cod Bay, as seen from Rock Harbor, Orleans, Massachusetts, July 22, 2012.
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Space news sad and glad: Sally Ride and Pluto

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In the crush of a hectic schedule last week, I missed the sad news of Sally Ride's death , at 61, from pancreatic cancer. She wasn...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

A sail on Cape Cod Bay

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Last weekend we were guests of our friends at whose Cape Cod house we welcomed the New Year. On Sunday, we drove from our friends' pl...
Friday, July 27, 2012

The Austin Lounge Lizards, "Brain Damage"

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Admit it: you've long wanted to hear a bluegrass rendition of Pink Floyd's "Brain Damage", from Dark Side of the Moon . Th...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

The Connecticut Lobster Roll

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My first taste of the "Connecticut style" lobster roll was two summers ago, when I sampled Red Hook Lobster Pound's offering...
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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...