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Today ends Daylight Savings Time for another year – what did you do with your hour? I’m not sure of the value of Daylight Savings anymore – turning back the clocks takes away the sun later in the day – I’m not sure I see the value there. Veteran’s Day is at the end of…

Happy Halloween! Don’t know how you celebrate Halloween – there’s no dress up or parties for me. Actually, in my area there are a number of towns that have Trick or Treat a day early – I think that they call it Beggar’s Night. Not sure how the tradition started around here, but it went…

Got a new jazz podcast for today – lots of new stuff for you as well as a couple of classics. Please tune in and listen to Vicki Burns, Ella Fitzgerald, Macy Gray, Reuben Wilson, Arnett Cobb, One For All, Louis Hayes, Black Jazz Art Collective, Harold Mabern, Joe Farrell, and Vincent Herring. This podcast…

I’d like to thank everyone for wishing me a happy birthday – it’s a small but sweet gesture that is appreciated. I don’t really celebrate birthdays much – my wife and I did go out to eat, but there were no gifts or birthday cake. I don’t eat much for dessert anymore, and there’s nothing…

Quick, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015? Svetlana Alexievich of the Ukraine. Haven’t read anything by her? How about in 2014? Patrick Modiano. I only know because I looked them up. Does Bob Dylan deserve to win for Literature in 2016? Does anyone really care? I’ve read a bunch of stuff about…

I’ve got nothing for today – I’m disgusted by the ongoing election, which has become even more of a circus than normal. Is there other news? Haiti was hit hard by hurricane Mathew – let’s help them out as much as we can. And although it didn’t hit the U.S. as hard as it hit…

There was another story of a fatal shooting by the police last week, but it got no national play because the the officer and the victim were white. Few details are available at this time, only that the victim called the police, the police showed up, and then the policeman shot the victim three times.…

Today is the last installment of music from 1971, my fourth. What a year for music! This last podcast deals specifically with what became progressive rock. The seeds of prog began in the mid- to late-1960’s, as “psychedelic” music expanded the horizon of music (or, maybe they just kept playing the same song forever because…

Maybe it is fall – last night’s temperatures were in the low 40’s, which leads to an annual fight between my wife and me: I like having the window open, even in the cold. Maybe because I grew up in a house that didn’t have great insulation I don’t mind a cool bedroom. It’s what…

What’s up? Not much happening here. We’re slowly easing into autumn here, with temperatures in the 80’s, little to no rain, and…wait, that’s not September weather. Ok, I see some thunderstorms predicted for the next two days, and temperatures dropping into the high 60’s next week. Where’s my cooler weather? Let’s listen to some music…