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It finally happened - it's cold. And I mean cold. The temperature outside is -10 Fahrenheit, with the windchill bringing it down to -25. That's winter. It's supposed to get all the way up to 9 degrees today. It's about time. We've had an extrem…BTW, working my way through the Stax Collection, Volume 2.
amclark2 - Sugar, for one...I was sick on Friday - the achy, can't focus kind of sick. I don't often get feverish when I get the flu (or some other general sickness), but I wasn't doing well. I was rallying on Saturday (so I thought) - shoveled us out, felt like I'd be fi…Dropping a jazz podcast today - a week late. I've been very behind lately, and need to catch up quickly. Today's jazz podcast is an overview of classic jazz - players and tunes. These are touchstone pieces - jazz I listen to often, even if they…How strange - my post got eaten. I may try to re-write this later - or not. Not sure that I really had much to say, anyway.So let's listen to today's podcast, which starts with the set that got bumped by Bowie. Tune …Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump in Iowa this week. That wasn't surprising, as Trump has been pushing his outsider status to a group of voters that would appeal to Palin. What was surprising, however, was the"speech" Palin gave endorsing Trump…I woke up on Monday morning to see that David Bowie had died. It came as a shock - I had just purchased his new album on Friday, and did not know that he was sick (he did not disclose his illness to many people). The suddenness of his passing j…Today it's The Very Best of the Grateful Dead for free at Google Play (U.S.).For a special Christmas treat my wife and I went to Costa Rica. We were there from Christmas through New Year's Day. It was fantastic - every day was sunny and 90 - with many days having a nice breeze to keep the temperature pleasant. I normall…Google Play (U.S.) has two albums for free this week - 30 #1 Hits from Elvis Presley andHope you had a Happy New Year - my wife and I spent New Year's Day traveling back to the U.S. from Costa Rica. I'll add more about the trip to Costa Rica later - we loved it there, though (and will return - a possible retirement destination as …If things go as planned, I am in Costa Rica right now. My wife and I decided to take a vacation during Christmas week, and we decided on Costa Rica (with an assist from my son). This means that the Wi-Fi in Costa Rica is sufficient…Martin Shkreli, Pharma Bro, was arrested earlier this week on securities fraud charges, and he has since resigned as CEO from Turing Pharmaceuticals, where he had increased the cost of Daraprim from $13.50 (still not cheap) to $750 a pill. Just…As I was going through my 2015 music, I saw that I had a lot of jazz that had not made it onto a podcast this year, so I hastily put this last jazzcast for 2015 together. Some of these albums made it to many "Best of 2015" lists for the year, b…I know that I'm supposed to be the leader on the War on Christmas (seriously - consumerism isn't the reason for the season - I'm definitely anti-shopping), but I say "Merry Christmas" to people. I say it for one good reason - December 25. On my…Well, after days of nothing, then one album in the db (my most recent download - Miho Hazama's Time River), today they seem to have matched up all of my purchases that they still own. It's hard to tell, since navigating is still something of a probl…Do you put up Christmas decorations? Have you had them up since Thanksgiving (or worse, before)? I'm not a Christmas decorations person - the Snoopy doghouse effect is beyond me. What's worse is the blow ups (at least tell me you don't have blo…I've been able to sign in, but Jamie put a message on the board about resolving "a number of issues." Maybe you're one of them.We're not getting any younger. I spent yesterday morning at a remembrance for someone who died recently - it's becoming more and more regular among people I know. As we get older, we start to lose our parents, aunts and uncles, and then co-work…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 Mand…Refugee:a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster. When did America turn into a scared nation? Most look at 9/11/2001 as the date, and we certainly have shown ourselves to be fr…I'm beyond figuring out how the world works, or why there were attacks on France (and Lebanon). I'll let wiser minds than mine figure out who to kill in retaliation (that will surely stop the violence). I had a very good weekend.
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…An unusually warm late October and early November had me thinking. I remember that it was very warm in October of 1979, as I went swimming in the ocean on my birthday (the water was still very cold). So it happens, just not with any frequency. …Let me second BigD-Bluez' recommendation - I've bookmarked a few releases - like Eric Gales and Jon Butcher (who I saw quite often in the old days form the Boston scene - always wondered what happened to him). It appears that they have gotten rights…
<…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 - October 31 through November 2. November 2 is the more tradition…