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Do you like funky music?
I am always looking to champion bands that maybe don’t have a huge following or maybe fit in a niche category. Two bands that I absolutely love are Dirty Loops, a Swedish three piece funk/jazz fusion, and Lawrence, a sibling band out of New York that lays down some nice grooves. I’ll start with Dirty…
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Love and Joy and Peace
I wrote a post about this on FB as I make the attempt to spend less time on FB, but I think I need to elaborate a little here. I’ve been angry for a while now. If you are around me, or know me, you would know that anger is not my default. Joy has…
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I used to do lots of Top 5 lists…
…then one day, I just quit writing. I got out of the habit. I let work take over my life and my time, and I just stopped. I tried my hand at podcasting during the pandemic, but got 2 episodes in. I read somewhere that starting a podcast is the male equivalent of trying out…
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Wow, so much has happened
since I last wrote here. I’m considering still attempting to turn this into a podcast, but not really sure in which direction I would take it, but I am writing more. Specifically plays. You see in February, I made the tough decision to leave a 23 year teaching career. It was brought on by interior…
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Wow, it’s been awhile.
I was just trying to log on and delete a post for a friend, and saw that this was still a live site. I tried starting a podcast and that was a lot. I could take quite a few of the things I used to post here and turn them into podcasts, but I don’t…
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think i need to write again…
it’s been such a long time. i have a lot to say and just don’t know how to say it. i just reset my password for this site though as i had forgotten it, so maybe expect some activity from me. i hope this post finds you well. i’ll write more later.
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spoken words of magic…
as i’ve taught my students about spoken word the last few weeks, one of the cool things is to find fresh poems for them to have as examples. i’ve shown them my good friend James Wilson and slam poetry sensations Taylor Mali, Sarah Kay, and Buddy Wakefield. this is a wonderful poem by Buddy. by…
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ukulele’s play happy music…
i love playing the ukulele. the name of the instrument comes from the Hawaiian word for swatting bugs. this band plays a lot of them. for your enjoyment, The Ooks of Hazzard.
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it was an accident…
“The truth is that nobody knows what that magic combination is that produces a first-rate piece of work…. All we can do is prepare the groundwork that allows for the ‘lucky accidents’ that make a first-rate movie happen.” Sidney Lumet “Most of the good things in pictures happen by accident.” John Ford …
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excuse me a sec. what are you babbling about?
“Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you’re crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us – in the simplest terms,…