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Sep.01.2012
Settling in to finish the current novel (JP Kinkaid Chronicle #8: Comfortably Numb) and doing some serious guitar playing (if my multiple sclerosis objects, it can sod off now), I took a break to watch the Hard Rock Calling from London last month: Bruce Springsteen with Sir Paul McCartney guesting...
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Aug.20.2012
When you have not sung with a church choir in a while, and you’re but a marginally decent singer to start, it’s a tough test to jump back in and play the role of a second tenor.
Singing the high notes of the first tenor would require a full falsetto, and while that range of voice sounds good in...
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Aug.20.2012
Video still from Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael.
Assistant program director “Lady Grace" at Savannah State University’s WHCJ radio station (90.3 FM) pointed out during one of her shows at the beginning of June that June and August represented the station’s “Michael Jackson time.”...
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Aug.16.2012
NEW NOVEL: The Death of Johnny Ace
What really happened backstage at that deadly Christmas Eve concert in 1954?
Steve Bergsman’s new book brings the world of 1950s R&B to vivid life through the fictionalized story of musician Johnny Ace.
Vancouver, Canada – (October 2012...
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Aug.16.2012
If you have given your heart to Christ (and many Christians have not!), you are, right now, a citizen of heaven. You move in the presence of Christ, who sits at the right hand of God.
What does that mean for the average Joe (which I like to consider myself)? It means that we have to realize...
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Aug.13.2012
Today's favorite film post comes from award-winning composer and concert pianist Amy Williams.
I have always loved films for many, many reasons (and not usually for the music…)—brilliant acting, smart humor, unnerving plot twists, nail-biting suspense, and sheer cinematic beauty.
Over the past ten...
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Aug.13.2012
The acrylic Coke bottles brazenly alternating with inverted Havana Club bottles couldn’t help but snag the attention of passersby. It was just one of the paintings, drawings, handicrafts, and other works of art being hawked by their creators at the weekly...
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Aug.09.2012
I listened again to "Moonrise Kingdom OST - The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe, Part Seven, by Alexandre Desplat" from the end of the movie, "Moonrise Kingdom". The playful tones of the heroic weather's music delivered me to a mellow mood after a last meeting ended at 7 PM. The...
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Aug.08.2012
August 8
PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
There is a penny in the bathtub. I wonder who stood in there with loose change. Possibly confusing it for a wishing well, the penny was tossed in. The stories I could tell the hopes that tantalize my mind, elves and...
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Aug.02.2012
Whether you’re a professional writer, a student writing a paper, or an executive writing a business proposal, everyone at some point experiences writer’s block. Writer’s block is a condition in which a person is unable to create new work. It varies in severity from mildly annoying causing one...
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