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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…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 ha…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 - litt…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 fu…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 …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 …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 la…At Google Play (U.S.), Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is free this week. Who doesn't have this who would …Politics in America is weird. Candidates are running for office far too early. It's the silly season. The first voting is till 5 months away - the Iowa Caucus is February 1 and the NH Primary is February 9. By then our infatuation with candidat…I recently finished reading the book Let's Talk About Love by Carl Wilson, which is a book that examines how we think about music. The album he's chosen is Let's Talk About Love by Celine Dion. He spends the book talking about musical taste - …Lots of different things today - the Delius form the Classical Shop, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Weather Report (Mysterious Traveler and Tale Spinnin'), The Nails. The Continental Drifters, and Sam Most (I recently heard an NPR report on him…Waiting for my coffee to brew. Getting the coffee ready in the morning is one of my last rituals - I've stripped away many of the rituals of my life, but getting out the grinder, pouring the beans in , grinding the beans, getting water into the…The new one: sublime.It's back to school time - hope everyone's got their pencil boxes ready for the year. School time makes me nostalgic for the days when I started back to school at the New Sharon School - in 1970 I was going onto Mrs. Fiddler's 5th grade classro…Hi. Today's show features a bunch of new music released this year, and a couple of tunes by artists that will be releasing music soon. I like listening to new music - my interest in music is still strong. I've read that many people's tastes sta…Earlier this week I updated the WordPress Software on the website and had a fatal error. Didn't know at first whether it was just something that was part of the web browser (nope - checked that). So I did a complete reinstall which wiped out al…There's supposed to be an intense El Nino event this fall - Pacific waters are warming up and there is supposed to be an intense period of the El Nino phenomenon. This means far more rain storms in California, which last time had terrible mud …I have received the August newsletter - with the link to his month's download -Well, the first 2016 Presidential debate was last Thursday. My problem with debates, especially early on, is that we really don't learn anything new about the candidates. Especially with so many candidates on stage, we only get to hear a lot of…
Thank you, Luddite. Even better than I remember it being.Time for another podcast devoted to jazz. I play a lot of jazz at home, and was surprised how much new jazz I've acquired since the last podcast. Coupled with the new stuff is a bunch of classic jazz that I've been listening to as well. I'm in…Moving Day - not for me, for my son. He and his girlfriend have found a great apartment (I've yet to see it, but...), and I'll be helping them move today - again. I missed the move to Iowa and the return, but I've moved Nick (and girlfriends, w…When I was young I always thought that I did not belong in a small town, and when I grew up I'd live in a big city, where everything was happening. I got my chance in my 20's to move to Boston and work in the city for a couple of years - I hat…Hello. I've posted a special edition of the PB Podcast. Today we travel back in time to 1975 - 40 years ago. Does that seem like a long time to you? When I was born, 40 years ago was the end of World War I - seems like a longer amount of time to …
Rainy Saturday, thunderstorm Sunday, then nice during the week when I'll be inside my office. And we'll probably press repeat next weekend. We're starting the day with a thick fog, so it'll be humid throughout the day that will lead into the th…We're in the midst of summer - let's enjoy the seemingly few days of sunshine that we're given and soak up some sun. Oh, but be safe and wear sunscreen, cover up and use the shade - the sun'll kill you. If you're like me, you just burn anyway -…Today I'm posting a mid-week podcast. Today's podcast focuses on artists that I listen to a lot but who don't usually make it into the regular podcasts. Most of these artists are not mainstream, but have made incredible music that is very rewar…Hey, it's the 4th of July. Well, yesterday was. That's it - just an acknowledgement of a date on the calendar. I'm not much for holidays, except that we get to spend time with friends and family, which is what I'm doing this weekend. Highly rec…Hi, I'm not sure how this will work - it may go up late, as I am not home this Sunday morning. We'll see if I can sneak this up on time.
I've been looking at my website (something I don't do a lot) and have made some changes to it. The p…