2025
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FOOD
Food Annoyances. Food as Medicine. oddities about my reaction to food. ………and the funniest headline I’ve seen in a long time [and that’s saying something.]
CHRISTmas
You are hereby formally invited to join the movement to change the name of this December holiday to something a bit more historically accurate – let’s start calling it CHRIST-mas. That’s why I titled my 2015 album what I did.
Wait, it is WHAT holiday?
SOMETIMES
1 word vs multi-word titles. Why I like short titles better. The paper I type on. In other words, the usual plethora of ponderings.
CHANGE
As I was prepping this entry – and in a fit of irony – I realized I’d left out several parts of the process [including exporting the PDF as a PNG and running it through the MacOS Preview/”Adjust colors” feature.Oh, well – further proof I’m human.
Here
A bit o’ commentary on Macon’s BiPolar weather, hopes of cooler weather, and temporarily dashed hopes of cooler weather. …and even something about Context and Perception.
The Rules for Toms Typewriter – because you should know what the heck this is all about
It has been some time, so I thought it would be useful for newer readers to this missive from the convoluted brain that currently resides in state inside my skull to know what my operating parameters are. In other words – these are the rules I set forth back when I started this thing. Hey, […]
EZ Sunday – the story behind the song
EZ Sunday is another track on the Week Begins album that has gone through several versions. This one, however, has actually been performed live – I created a jazz band version back in 1989 for the Chattanooga State Technical Community College band that we called “Diet Jazz” [it had half the members of a regular […]
God is STILL on His throne and other truths
Some things that are comforting to remember…. along with a ton of wonky dyslexic typing.
Paging Eloise – the story behind the song
Paging Eloise is a track from my recent album The Week Begins [You can find links to the sheet music on that page as well.] So how did I come to create a jazz piano arrangement of a famous Beethoven tune? Here’s the story…..
Family – the story behind the song
Family is a track from my album The Week Begins. It has a long a varied history, but the album version is the first legit recording of the tune. Here’s the story……
Workin’
Well, lookie there…. I found a use for AI that wasn’t stupid or lazy. What I’ve been working on is – well, just read the post. [Yes, it is music related!]
Now What?
Sunday afternoon, feeling a bit lost…. and how to decide what to do [hint? pretty much anything OTHER than watching TV or a social media screen…..]
Podcast, anyone?
Have you seen all the hype about podcasting? How people are breathlessly opining that YOU – YES< YOU – should start a podcast? Been there, done that. Thoughts about that, and a story or two about recent appearances on other podcasts.
When did THAT happen?
Pondering all those people I’ve been associated with that were “just there” and “had always been there” who made things “just work”. I’m marvelling how clueless I was as a youngster….and wondering when I became “that person”. Sheesh…. that’s a lot of “double quotes”.
Painful Joy
A response to the young DINKS [“double income no kids”] who were bragging about how “free” their life is on social media.
Production vs. Education
There are times to tussle with music in the trenches over a period of time, learning the stuff… and then there are times to take the shortcuts because there’s a deadline. Knowing which situation you find yourself in is a good thing.
Rules
YES, the pun is intentional. It bugs me when people apologize for puns….. MEAN it when you pun! A quick reminder of what this anti-blog is about, the rules under which I type, and yet another warning that this blog is created by dyslexia.
Learning
…in which the protaganist pontificates using multisyllabic words about constantly learning – sometime of his own volition, others from situations forced upon his weary but decidedly not bored brain.