Mixed Meters

I have great difficulty with Christmas music. (Does it sound like my palaver is going to be dull? So skip to the end of the post and just...

This is like a quiz. Answers below. 1) What was this native of Austria doing in this photo? 2) What were these men of god doing in Berlin i...

Here's a short joke. It's funny because it's based in truth and funnier if you don't believe in deities. God created war to...

Here's a picture of Ronald Wilson Reagan (before he became the Insane Anglo Warlord, see previous post ) with a lit one in his mouth, t...

Here's another memory dredged from my box of old photographs. This is me (on the left with the beard) in 1979 with my good friend Laur...

"iPod" - just say the word once and you'll find a dozen products to connect to it. And if you're looking for the perfect ...

The Improvising Guitarist (or TIG, an anonymous author of an eponymous blog ) took my post about the dancing Feldman pianist and ran with ...

Long ago my friend, bassoonist and composer John Steinmetz, presented me with a framed panel of three photos - showing a young barefoot boy...

Here's a video of Debora Petrina (who describes herself as a "polymorphic artist" ) filling the silences in the music of Morto...

Here's a picture of me in college - May 1973 (i.e. just before I graduated) in my 3rd Watson dorm room - standing in front of my found ...

As you listen to "The Real Jejune Vasectomy" remember that the title has nothing to do with the music . I first heard the words ...