When I started out managing computer systems for The Honolulu Club back in 1980 I was an absolute newbie in a lot of ways, not the least of which was programming. The Club bought a software package that was in use at a country club in Delaware and we immediately discovered it served different needs …
Harvest was his best selling album, but I’ve always liked the one this is from: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Note: As I’m seeing him perform on the Gershwin Award ceremony honoring Willie Nelson back in November at Constitution Hall, I’m pretty sure Neil is still alive, not like the two artists whose songs I’ve …
News item: Denmark approves controversial refugee bill allowing police to seize asylum seekers’ cash and valuables Yep. You’re reading that rightly. Denmark’s right-wing minority party managed to persuade both the opposition party and the anti-immigrant one that taking assets from refugees who’ve just risked their lives and traveled thousands of miles was an ethically and …
I hate this January. It seems like every day this month a star from my past has died. Today it was Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and (later) Jefferson Starship. I know that in some cases it’s nearly a miracle some of these musicians have lived this long, but still. Kantner was one of the …
Three Dog Night might have rocked this song a little harder, but its composer did a pretty good job too. We talk about musicians who left us too soon, but we usually mean Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin and Elvis Presley and John Lennon. Somehow Laura Nyro gets left out of those …
That’s how the Ear Nose and Throat guys described my mouth today. It looks like a million bucks. This after putting the scope in and taking a look at the back of my throat where a uvula once wobbled, and after putting a couple of tongue depressors into the front of my mouth to look …
The Attorney General of the State of Michigan has just appointed a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit office to investigate the Flint water fiasco. As far as I know, Andy Arena is a good and honest man with no connections to the Governor, the Emergency Managers who decided to switch Flint’s …
Continue reading ‘Sure looks like conflict of interest to me’ »
One out of two football games being exciting is as much as we could hope for, I guess. The Manning-Brady Bowl Episode XVII result surprised me and pointed out the importance of extra points after touchdowns. The rule change in the off-season which made the distance for PATs 33 yards rather than the 20 yards …
You gotta use your imagination and substitute the word “snow” for “rain” here. The song is sung by The Serendipity Singers; the record was released in 1964. The group was nominated for a Grammy for this song but lost.
From The Vogues, 1966.