Friday, December 20, 2013

Gram, Emmylou, and Linda; Emmylou, Dolly, and Linda

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When I go for walks, I usually take my iPod set in the "shuffle" mode. Because of my eclectic interests in music, this sometimes l...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Another Annunciation scene, from the Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights Advent Pageant

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My most popular post over the course of the past year has been about Henry Ossawa Tanner's painting, "The Annunciation," wh...
Friday, December 13, 2013

Moon over Brooklyn.

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Yesterday afternoon I saw this bright waxing gibbous moon rising over one of the buildings in MetroTech Center .
Monday, December 09, 2013

iPod and photo log: across the Brooklyn Bridge and back.

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Another iPod and photo log (or, if you prefer, photo log with music). This one is longer than the one I posted on November 27, as this tim...
Saturday, December 07, 2013

This Year's Lionel Train Display at Grand Central Terminal

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For the past two years I've been making videos of the Lionel Train display at the New York City Transit Museum Annex and Gift Shop in ...
Thursday, December 05, 2013

Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

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Two of his many memorable quotations (thanks to Huffington Post ): What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is wh...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013

"Anesthesia" by the Nation Rocking Shadows and "Baja" by the Astronauts

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It's December so, of course, it's time to think about surf guitar music. In this instance, surf guitar music from places far from So...
Saturday, November 30, 2013

Sam Edwards, "In the Last Days of the Empire."

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Sam Edwards, I'm told, was a bartender at "55," the joint next door to the Lion's Head . I seldom went into 55; whenever I...
Thursday, November 28, 2013

e.e. cummings, "i thank you God," by The Western Wind.

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I posted this e.e. cummings poem two years ago on Easter. Yesterday I found this version set to music by Elliot Z. Levine, a member of the ...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013

iPod and photo log from a short walk around Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

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Yesterday morning I took a walk down the Brooklyn Heights Promenade , across the pedestrian bridge to Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park , aro...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Marshall Chapman does songs from her album Blaze of Glory at Hill Country, New York City.

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Last Wednesday night I went to Hill Country NY a restaurant, market, and music venue, to see and hear my old friend Marshall Chapman , wh...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Richard Nelson's Apple family plays at the Public Theater

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Tuesday night we saw a preview of  Regular Singing, the last in Richard Nelson's series of four Apple family plays. Last year we saw S...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

So long, Frank Lloyd Wright: one of his few designs in New York City was demolished.

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The space behind these papered-over windows at 430 Park Avenue, between 54th and 55th streets contained an interior designed by Frank Lloy...
Monday, November 11, 2013

The Wall

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My old Civil Air Patrol buddy Steve Scrivener's name is there, as are those of several soldiers I helped to train during my Fort Polk ...
Saturday, November 02, 2013

Update on Lou Reed: his Grace Church connection (thanks to Binky Philips).

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I damn near vandalized my briefs when I read the first sentence of  Binky Philips'  Huff Po  piece : I first met Lou Reed at the Hol...