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August 11, 2023

Tea For Two – Some Classic Takes On A Perennial Jazz Favorite

Jazz, music 1920's, 1930's, 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, Art Tatum, Basie, Beverly Kenney, Ella, Fats Waller, Fitzgerald, jazz, Lester Young, Nat King Cole, No No Nanette, Pasquale Grasso, standard, Tea For Two, Tommy Dorsey 25 Comments J P
August 4, 2023

Living In The House Of Blue Lights

Life "house of blue lights", blue, bright, display, LED, Skiles Test 21 Comments J P
July 28, 2023

How I Spent My (Very Short) Retirement

Life CDL, student, transportation, truck, trucking 48 Comments J P
July 21, 2023

Driving A Beater Through The Car Wash

Humor, Life Beater, car, dirty, junker, old, rusty 33 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…

July 7, 2023

On Age – 64 Sentences About Turning 64

Humor, Life 64, age, aging, birthday, sixty-four 30 Comments J P
June 30, 2023

Exercises in Haruspicy – And Other Vocabularian Feats

Life 24 Comments J P
June 23, 2023

Getz/Gilberto: Some Brazilians And An American Walk Into A Recording Studio And Make Some Musical History

Jazz, music 1963, 1964, 1965, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, bossa nova, Brazil, Getz/Gilberto, Joao Gilberto, samba, Stan Getz 16 Comments J P
June 16, 2023

My Job At The Public Library

Life book, Dewey, Fort Wayne, high school, job, library, page, shelf, student 32 Comments J P
June 9, 2023

It Was A Dark And Stormy Night . . .

Humor bad, Bulwer-Lytton, contest, novel, writing 18 Comments J P

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