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My Auntie’s Dead
Not exactly how I wanted to kick off my return to the blogosphere, but so be it…. When I was a very little boy, my Aunt Patty, my mother’s older sister, used to take me with her everywhere. I can...
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Obama’s first mistake
In a post I wrote on election night, I said that “a part of me desperately wants to believe that Obama will be [a] breath of fresh air….[but] I remain profoundly afraid that he’s just not ready for the...
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Fotheringay
Sometimes you come across something that is just too beautiful not too share. Written by the late, great Sandy Denny, it tells the story of the last hours of Mary, Queen of Scots, and is one of...
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Percy’s song
I heard this song on the radio about twenty years ago and always wondered what it was and who by. Now, through the wonders of the internet, I know. Downloading this song revived my interest in...
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Who knows where the time goes?
Okay, I am now officially on a Fairport Convention kick. I really don’t know what it is about Sandy Denny’s voice that gets to me so. It was not a particularly strong voice; sometimes she barely...
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I’ve sold out….
My friends, I write these words with a deep sense of guilt and shame, disapprobation and yes, even opprobrium. I have sold out. I have betrayed my most dearly held beliefs and sacrificed what I once...
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An open letter to Smoke & Mirrors
Michael, my dear, dear friend and esteemed colleague: I really hope you’re proud of yourself. You have created an iPod/iTunes monster. You don’t want to know how I’ve spent my day. But I’m going to...
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Carving up the Raven
Ok, I’ll get right to the point on this one: I have to have surgery next Thursday. Between now and then I do not have a day off from work. So things are going to be a bit slow around here. “How will...
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How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place
Michael Murphy, my dear friend and esteemed colleague, and I don’t agree on very much. He likes thin women, I prefer them plump. He loves Guinness Stout. I think it’s vastly over rated, and prefer...
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farewell to the raven…..for now
This blog will be on hiatus for a while. The truth of the matter is that there are just too many demands on my time from the people in my life who need me. By the same token, when I do have a few...
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