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nutcases and crackpots like MacDonald at the U of A denying Holodomor.

the holy, holy sound of chorales singing church music on CD–human voices celebrating spiritual joy, peace, and quietude. (It’s on a par with the monks’ voices at Santo Domingo.) The voices of women and of children choirs are the best–truly … Continue reading →

Russian Assets. Putin Personnel. Soviet Lackeys. Red Flunkys.

“They intoxicate themselves with work so they won’t see how they really are.”–Aldous Huxley “Most people perform essentially meaningless work. When they retire, that truth is borne upon them.”–Brendan Francis “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”–Thomas Carlyle “There … Continue reading →

“Try to realize it’s all within yourself No one else can make you change And to see you’re really very small And life flows on Within you and without you.” –George Harrison, “Within You, Without You”

53% of Republicans say Trump is better than Abraham Lincoln as POTUS. 47% of them thought Lincoln better. 90% of GOP supporters approve of the job T’s doing. Of all Americans, 75% say Lincoln was a better POTUS than T. … Continue reading →

for those still working to take stock with Christmas and the holidays on the horizon. Time to look inward and ask oneself “Am I too much ‘work’? Am I in a rut? Is there more to my life than my … Continue reading →

(Warner Bros.–available as a stand-alone or as part of the excellent WB Tennessee Williams boxset) Tennessee Williams–the major American playwright whose fame came in the 1950s and ’60s with poetic, conflictful works such as The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar … Continue reading →

thanks to people buying online. More big changes to come in life as we once knew it.

(A summer stop in Calgary. We started playing together in 1966 and last played together about 5 years ago here in Edmonton. Our best work included recordings in the 1980s.)