Category: Podcast
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1990
Lots of things happened in 1990.Lech Walesa became President of Poland, Nelson Mandela was release from prison, the Berlin Wall cam down, and it was the first year the Simpsons aired on Fox. Heady times (was it really that late that Nelson Mandela was released form prison?). It was also the year that I started…
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It’s Jazz Time
Time to dip into the jazz stacks and put another jazzcast together. There are a bunch of new tunes (2015 releases) today as well as a couple of new to me releases, along with a couple of favorites. The Smoke Sessions label continues to release great jazz records – I feature three of their 2015…
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All Saints’ Day
It’s All Saints’ Day, but really, it’s the Day of the Innocents, to honor dead children and infants (Mexico). That’s all part of the Day of the Dead, which seems to be three days now – October 31 through November 2. November 2 is the more traditional Day of the Dead in Mexico. With the…
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I’ve forgoten what I was going to say
I turned 56 this week – overall I don’t feel any different than I did when I was younger. The vagaries of age haven’t caught up to me, except… I’ve become more forgetful. I suppose that it’s due to age. Over the past few years I’ve started to be more forgetful about things – I’ll…
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Speaker of the House
As soon as I heard that the Speaker of the House did not have to be a member of the House (check), not in the majority party (check), and not have to be a “natural born” citizen (check), I decided that I had to become Speaker of the House. I have all 3 of the…
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1965
Today’s podcast looks back at the year 1965. Ah, 1965. The year I turned 6. That was 50 years ago (how old will I be in 8 days?). In 1965 there weren’t many “albums” as such – most songs were made to be released as singles. Remember 45’s – little 7″ discs with a song…
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M Train
Last night I finished M Train by Patti Smith. What a great book. The main focus of the book is a shambling diary of the year 2012, but touches on much more, especially her marriage to Fred “Sonic” Smith of the MC5. It’s just a wonderful book full of coffee, TV detectives (USA Network’s The…
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Happiness is a Warm Gun
When I was a kid, I had an impressive array of toy guns. Pistols, rifles, and sub-machine guns. We played war constantly – I was the yellow peril, I played many Germans, and I was a good guy. We literally spent hours and hours with toy guns in our hand. I lived in rural Maine…
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Bring Back That Sunny Day
How appropriate – it’s going to rain all day, with heavy rain predicted (“It’s a Hard Rain that’s gonna fall”). Today’s special podcast looks at weather. We start with a stormy forecast, then see the clouds move in. From there we have a lot of rain before ending with the sun – there’s always the…
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Totally Lunar
Tonight is the big “supermoon” total lunar eclipse. It should be clear skies where I am tonight, so I should be able to see the lunar eclipse without worrying about clouds. It starts at 9:07, becomes totally eclipsed at 10:47 PM. Woo, that’s late for me, not sure if I’ll make the maximum eclipse time.…