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Continue reading →: Pearls Before Swine: The New Metrics
Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis gives us a lesson in the new metrics!
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Continue reading →: DWR (3): Rhetoric Right and Left
Back on November 23, 2021, I posted a dialogue I had with my friend Ryan Neugebauer (the third in my ongoing DWR Series) prompted by a Les Leopold article asking if F. A. Hayek was really a Bernie Sanders socialist in disguise. This week, we’ve had some additional discussion, prompted…
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Continue reading →: No Time to Die … Wow
I won’t put any spoilers in this post, but I finally got to see “No Time To Die“—having avoided reading anything about the film, miraculously, and was totally shocked and blown away by this 2021 entry in the James Bond franchise. So I’ll just say this much … whether or…
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Continue reading →: Da Bomb Hits Brooklyn …
A “Bomb Cyclone” is hitting the Northeast. We’re expecting continued high winds (50-60 mph gusts) and about a foot of snow here in Brooklyn, New York. A big snowfall typically covers the cars—but the winds are simultaneously wiping them clean! Should be a lot worse for my neighbors in New…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2008
Song of the Day: Better Call Saul (“Blackbird Special”) is credited to The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, on whose 1984 album, “My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now” this track appears [YouTube link]. A funkier version appears as a live cut by drummer Stanton Moore on the 2008 album,”Take it to…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #2008
Song of the Day: Better Call Saul (“Blackbird Special”) is credited to The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, on whose 1984 album, “My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now” this track appears [YouTube link]. A funkier version appears as a live cut by drummer Stanton Moore on the 2008 album,”Take it to…
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Continue reading →: Pastis Casts Pearls Left and Right
Comics Flash! Stephan Pastis continues to trigger folks left and right in “Pearls Before Swine“! And as pointed out on my Facebook thread, the creator of “The Family Circus” (Bil Keane, and now his son Jeff) and Pastis are friends and collaborate on parodies. Others have pointed out the obvious…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1903 & #1904
Songs of the Day: Dawgma / Swing ’39 [YouTube link] are two songs that were performed back-to-back on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” in support of the 1978 quintet album, “Hot Dawg,” featuring David Grisman on lead mandolin, Mark O’Connor on guitar, Mike Marshall on rhythm mandolin, Rob Wasserman…
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Continue reading →: Remembering Hiromi Shinya
Back in December 2021, I shared my very personal thoughts on Hiromi Shinya, a trailblazing doctor who saved my life—and the lives of countless numbers of people through his remarkable innovations in endoscopic medicine. Today, his daughter, Erica Shinya Kin, posted an obituary through legacy.com on the New York Times.…
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Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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