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February 23, 2024

JP’s Book Report – February, 2024 Edition

Uncategorized 34 Comments J P

My literary adventures continue. To review, I now spend hours and hours a week behind a windshield, and have choices on what kind of nutrition to feed my mind whilst doing so. There is the pablum or empty calories of podcasts, and then there is the vitamin-fortified nutrition of audiobooks. Many of the latter are…

September 22, 2023

Jump-Starting An Old Highbrow Habit

Uncategorized book, classic, Franklin Library, highbrow, literature 45 Comments J P
July 14, 2023

Yes, We Have No Bananas (Again)

Uncategorized 20 Comments J P

While shopping for some provisions for the birthday I wrote about last week, I was reminded of the lyrics from another song – one much older than “When I’m 64”, but also far more popular in its time. Marianne had put bananas on the list of things I was to bring home. After failing to…

May 26, 2023

A Long Night In Tunisia – And Many Bad Puns That Resulted

Uncategorized 1944, 1946, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilespie, Interlude, night, Sarah Vaughan, Tunisia 14 Comments J P
August 19, 2022

Winning A Contest

Life, Uncategorized car, carnival, Chrysler, contest, drawing, Lombardi, loser, raffle, winner 29 Comments J P
June 10, 2022

The Page Cavanaugh Trio – Famously Obscure or Obscurely Famous?

Jazz, music, Uncategorized 1946, 1947, 1948, AL, Cavanaugh, Lloyd, page, Pratt, Three Bears, trio, Viola 14 Comments J P
April 22, 2022

Jazz From Unexpected Places – Rudy Vallee?

Jazz, music, Uncategorized 14 Comments J P
March 11, 2022

Pipe Dreams

Humor, Life, Uncategorized 23 Comments J P
December 31, 2021

2021 – It’s A Wrap

Faith, Humor, Jazz, Life, music, Uncategorized 23 Comments J P
July 9, 2021

Jazz Connections – Wherein Ed Sullivan, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Frank Sinatra, The Mambo and The FBI All Somehow Meander Into The Presentation of a Single Thirteen Minute 1950 Video Clip

Jazz, music, Uncategorized 1947, 1950, Capitol, CBS, Ed Sullivan 15 Comments J P

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