Thursday, January 31, 2013

It's Franz Schubert's birthday.

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Someone with a particularly refined aesthetic sensibility once claimed that "music ended with Schubert." Franz Schubert (1797-183...
Monday, January 21, 2013

The Helmsley Building

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The Helmsley Building (Warren & Wetmore, 1929), formerly the New York Central Building and headquarters of the great railroad nicknam...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Stan Musial and Earl Weaver

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Stan Musial, who died yesterday at 92, wasn't a larger than life character like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, or Mickey Mantle, or a domina...

Birmingham 1963

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A year ago I posted an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail . This morning The Rev. Stephen Muncie, R...
Saturday, January 19, 2013

More photos from my peregrinations.

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Real life has been intruding on my blogging time lately, so right now, despite having a head full of ideas that are driving me insane , I...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Paul Whiteman and the Rhythm Boys, "That's My Weakness Now."

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The Rhythm Boys were Harry Barris, Al Rinker, and the young Bing Crosby. Paul Whiteman was a jazz bandleader whose career began in the 1...
Tuesday, January 08, 2013

I might as well have posted, "Roll, Tide!"

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It seems my role as a sports Jonah continues. All I had to do to sink Notre Dame's chances in the BCS championship game was to declar...
Sunday, January 06, 2013

New Year's remembrances and thanks.

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It's been my custom, early in the New Year, to recognize those who have been helpful to my blogging venture in the past year, and befo...
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Friday, January 04, 2013

New Year's Eve day walk, with iPod log

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On the morning of New Year's Eve day, I went out with my new camera and my iPod for a stroll through Brooklyn Bridge Park and Brookly...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Louis Jordan, "Saturday Night Fish Fry"

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Something to get you into the party spirit.
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Oh, no! Cat photos.

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My wife funded my purchase of a new camera for Christmas, and I bought it today. It's a Canon PowerShot  SX 260 HS (no, I haven't ...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Remembering Peter Demmerle, and anticipating Alabama vs. Notre Dame.

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I used to hate Notre Dame. This came to a climax with the 1992 Sugar Bowl, in which the third ranked Florida Gators, my favorites, led by ...
Monday, December 24, 2012

"Good King Wenceslas" by York Minster Choir

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My last post pointed to the tragic side of Christmas: Herod's massacre of the innocents. This is a carol that by contrast commemorates t...
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"Coventry Carol" by the Westminster Cathedral Choir

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The "little tiny child" in this carol isn't the infant Jesus, instead he is one of the many innocents slaughtered under orders...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

"Sixpence the Stars" by Honor Molloy

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Honor Molloy , playwright, novelist, and superb reader, is the daughter of an American who went to Ireland to do graduate study and the Iris...
Saturday, December 15, 2012

The Newtown massacre.

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News.Yahoo.com Around noon yesterday I took a short break from work to get something to drink with the sandwich I'd brought to eat a...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Dee Dee Sharp, "Hard Candy Christmas"

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Dee Dee Sharp is a veteran of the 1960s Philadelphia R&B scene, part of the stable of artists who recorded for Cameo-Parkway (another ...
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Saturday, December 08, 2012

It's Chanukah, and Chanukah it is.

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 In the song accompanying the video above, the LeeVees address the burning question: how do you spell the name of the minor Jewish holiday-...

Holiday Lionel Train layout at NYC Transit Museum Annex, Grand Central

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Here's this year's version (see last year's here ) of the Lionel Train display at the New York City Transit Museum's annex a...
Friday, December 07, 2012

Dave Brubeck, 1920-2012

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Dave Brubeck, who took jazz in new directions, died Wednesday , one day before his 92nd birthday. I first heard Brubeck during my freshman ...
Tuesday, December 04, 2012

As It Is On Earth, by Peter M. Wheelwright

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Taylor Thatcher, protagonist and point-of-view character of Peter M. Wheelwright's first novel, set at the end of the last millennium,...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

RIP: Earl "Speedo" Carroll

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Talk about getting a lemon and making lemonade: Earl Carroll, lead singer of the Cadillacs, put his car into valet parking. When he reclaime...
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Divine Dvořák; scintillating Shostakovich

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Friday evening my wife and I went to a New York Philharmonic concert featuring guest conductor Andrey Boreyko . On the program were Felix Me...