Tuesday, December 29, 2020

2020, here's your hat. What's your hurry?

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On New Year's day 1980, as I recall, someone observed, "Here's to the passing of a real kidney stone of a decade." The sev...
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Monday, September 07, 2020

"I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill" - a song for Labor Day

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  Joe Hill was a songwriter and labor organizer. He was born  Joel Hägglund in  Gävle, Sweden in 1879. After a childhood made difficult by ...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Happy 75th, Van Morrison

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Yes, you've been  saying some crazy stuff  lately. Indeed, you've always been something of a loose cannon outside of your musical pe...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

Mets flounder, but the Gray Lady has interesting ideas for MLB.

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A week ago Friday I posted here , noting, with tongue firmly in cheek, that the Mets were in first place in the National League East -- a di...
Friday, July 24, 2020

Mets First in NL East!

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A squeaker to start a shortened season with silent stands. We'll see how this goes.
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Saturday, May 23, 2020

Robert Ward's The Stone Carrier; 1970s New York, Uptown and Downtown

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Robert Ward's The Stone Carrier is a book that will grab you and not let you go. I read it because the author and I hung out at the s...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny, "My Heart's Tonight in Ireland"

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Here's a wistful song for this subdued St. Patrick's day.  Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!  
Monday, March 16, 2020

Giving up church for Lent

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I don't usually "give up" anything for Lent. I've had some clerical support for this. Lent isn't about renunciation,...
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Monday, January 20, 2020

Remembrances and appreciations, 2018 and '19

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For some years I posted a remembrance of the past year, including a summary of the remembrances of those, either friends or those I admire...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Sarah Stone and friends perform English and Scottish music at Communitea.

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On Friday evening Sarah Stone , on cello in the center of the GIF above, along with (left to right) Francis Liu on violin, Kevin Devine ...
Monday, October 21, 2019

Nick Tosches, 1949-2019

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Nick Tosches died yesterday . I hadn't seen or been in communication with Nick for years, but there was a time, from the late 1970s to t...
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Sunday, October 06, 2019

Saying Farewell to John Phillips

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Two weeks ago Martha and I attended a memorial service for someone I thought would be an honored guest at mine. By way of background, my...
Friday, October 04, 2019

The Mets play it well, but not well enough.

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Back in March, I asked if the Mets' winning their opening game was a bad sign . I noted there that my wife, a Red Sox fan, believed th...
Monday, September 30, 2019

The Met's "Play It Loud!"

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I saw the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll yesterday, two days before its closur...
Monday, September 02, 2019

What We Did on Our Holidays - Part 2

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Our second mini-vacation was to the Glimmerglass Festival , held at the Alice Busch Opera Theater (photo) near Cooperstown, New York. We...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

Happy 74th, Van Morrison!

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To quote another great musician, "What a long, strange trip it's been." May it go on, and on.  As I've written before, m...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

Simon Dinnerstein's Fulbright Triptych at the McMullen Art Museum, Boston College, September 8 through December 8, 2019.

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Simon Dinnerstein painted The Fulbright Triptych (above) over a period of several years during and after living in Kassel, Germany on a ...