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Oct 7 2020

On The Perverse Effects Of An Upside Down Music Business

 



I began reading Mohamed Sadek’s piece A Musician’s White Whale: Perfectly Recreating the ‘Funky Drummer’ Beat with piqued interest, as a music maker, session musician, composer, etc. and was initially positively intrigued. But as I read on, I became less…

Sep 2 2020

Preaching Empathy, Compassion and Solidarity from Boo Radley’s Porch

 

                                                                                                                                                                 Wanda Gág

 Preaching Empathy, Compassion and Solidarity from Boo Radley’s Porch

 

She stands transfixed in the wake of recent turmoil, stilled and swooning in the all-knowing hum of the hot summer night. An ever observant eight…

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Jul 7 2020

Lou Reed’s Dirty Blvd.


 

 

 

 

A Songwriter’s Appreciation:

  Lou Reed’s Dirty Blvd.

 

Anyone passingly familiar with the mystique and work of Lou Reed would be aware of his status as one…

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Feb 1 2020

Senate Votes for Lawlessness--Whose Pyrrhic Victory?

In An Unreal Play, Here's Something Real. We're Not Rotten. #NoWitnesses #Sham Like an overly ripe plumb, it's nearly sickening but still somewhat sweet as it's swallowed. But one post-mortem assessment is worth noting as something of which we…
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Dec 23 2019

Comment re: Sen. Patrick Leahy's Take on Senatorial Conscience and Responsibility

Responding to: 
What The Senate Does Now Will Cast A Long Shadow

Historians and politicians are quite fond of invoking the "point of inflection" within any active paradigm. There are in fact an infinite number of these. With today's 10…
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Jan 31 2018

Comment on "The Slut-Shaming of Nikki Haley" Op Piece NYT By BARI WEISSJAN. 29, 2018

The legislative Left has--had, rather--for too long insisted on bringing a high and holy frisbee to the knife fight that the Right is unabashedly still waging, praising and perpetuating.

Since those obliquely insidious conservative Republicans are allowed to sling about…
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Dec 14 2017

Why I'm Keeping My Sirius-XM Subscription

Some thoughts, notions, knee jerk reactions of my own on this unsubscribe from SXM movement due to Bannon’s return:

There are more than a couple Fox stations broadcasting on the platform, there’s the Patriot channel and others whereon much partisan…
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Nov 15 2017

To My Best Friend Mike. I Love You and Miss You.


 
Backstage at Maloney Hall, Catholic University 1975 November 15, 2017


Dear Mike~

Today is your birthday. I’d be calling you today, and probably sending you a video or something that I think was funny, maybe it'd make you laugh. If…
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Nov 22 2016

For and Of Our Beloved Friend John Jennings




For Our Buddy John Jennings on his Birthday (I never got around to formally reading this at our friend’s Memorial Service 1 year ago today):

OK, then..it would appear--somewhat reasonably--that the vast majority of the good folks here today would…
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Jun 27 2015

On Public Discourse, Moral Re-examination, Offended Sensibilities, Court Rulings and Emblems of the Confederacy in Leesburg, Va




As Americans, as a Nation, we stand unified in our belief that each and all have the right to express their opinions proudly and openly, especially when doing so opens heretofore obscured pathways to a deeper understanding of our collective…
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Jun 9 2015

Logan 3.12.15

Logan 3.12.15

Lithe, Lean, Slender
Nearly skinny
Minder rubber ‘round her wrist
Tine-like fingers quickly
Get to a banana
One, two, three strips divvy down
Disappear into rapid devour
All business

Sip, chew, sip
Paper cup not managing
Only but…
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Aug 19 2014

The Carnage of Capitalism (with Comment)

THE CARNAGE OF CAPITALISM (click for Article)

Comment:


Stephen Kinzer's ("The Brothers") rather unsettling account of precedent setting patterns and policies established during and following World Wars 1 & 2 after several unabashed decades of corporate/government unholy allied practices in…
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