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May.31.2013
I had never seen the Pacific Ocean until I looked into her eyes.
It was summer 1984 at my 10-year high school reunion and there she was, Peggy Culver. We had been friends back in school. I even dated her best friend on occasion, but I had never really looked into her eyes until that night in ’84.
I...
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Apr.09.2013
A while ago, I blogged about Jazz on the Tube. Now its added a sister site, Blues on the Tube. Again, you receive daily videos (or recordings) for free. It's pot luck and fun. To sign up, go here:
http://www.reallytheblues.com/page/22340.html
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Mar.25.2013
...from "Ode to Santa Cruz," _New & Selected Poems_. Red Hen Press, 'a sidewalk of broken glass, a street filled with jewels. Loma Prieta, The Earthquake of the Dark Hill, place, this place, always coming back from a disaster. Natural beauty and unnatural events, jazz, blues, canoes, tattoos, I...
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Mar.25.2013
Arrived at work and developed another case of the first world blues and the Mondays. The usual issues with connectivity and productivity tools.
Then I read about a nine year old girl in LA. Her father was driving an SUV that left the road and went 200 feet down an embankment, killing...
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Feb.04.2013
Around 1969 I was working as a set designer and Jim Morrison of the Doors came to see the show. He invited half a dozen of us to come to the San Francisco Film Festival where a short film he had made, about his life as a rock star, was going to be screened. When we arrived, there was a crowd...
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Jan.27.2013
It’s been one of those times when the pace of events—both interior and exterior—accelerates almost beyond reckoning. Granted, these days I get much of my news from “The Daily Show,” but still: Inauguration! Republican vote-rigging! Somalia! Egypt! I had a birthday with all the attendant thrill...
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Aug.12.2012
A quotation from James Baldwin has been making the rounds of some friends on Facebook this week. I like to observe this phenomenon, how a snippet of text gets unmoored from its intended context and eddies through cyberspace, washing up on shores of meaning its author surely never intended....
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Mar.26.2012
Help me get to Europe in May
My paper “Conscious Inclusion of Women Musicians” discusses the systematic omission of women from big bands, except all-female bands, and the importance of hiring women musicians for music projects, especially, jazz projects. The paper has been accepted for...
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Dec.20.2011
Going down to Roscoe's for the Blues tonight. Several performers will be there, best of all, Karen Lovely. She has a big blues voice. Reminds me of Beth Hart. No local guitarists quite match Les Paul, or Misters Clapton, Vaughn (either the late Stevie Ray or brother Jimmy), Guy, King (Albert or BB...
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Nov.29.2011
I’m returning to this site after nearly a half-year off for a sweet relationship that morphed into what we both hope will be a lasting friendship. My prior online dating experience was much fun and very interesting, and I’m hoping this will be too. I’m touched by the way we keep showing up,...
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