Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Thursday, and its me, back with you gentle readers. Music on the turntable (yes, I do have one, for all those albums) is Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, with the song that made Gil a politimusician, 'Johannesburg."
Things haven't been moving very fast around the blog-house, so I decided to make an eight hour day doing things on schedule. It's reduced the clutter, kept the floors clean and the house dusted, and makes me appreciate the things my wife did to keep the house looking nice.
Fallout continues with this CIA-outing incident, and I wonder how much more damaging this will be not only to our intelligence officers but to foreign intelligence, both friend and foe. The Washington Post has another article on this, amusingly entitled "The Spy Next Door," and reading it sounds like the plot of a Robert Rodriguez movie (you'll remember that a couple of his latest movies are the 'Spy Kids' franchise.) Busy mom with twins crushes foreign governments, that sort of thing.
And Ahnold is governator of Califohnia. Does this portend for the future? Our next generation is the one who'll be taking care of us in our old age. Eminem for president? Got a island I can retire to?
It looks like our high school class will have a 30th reunion (you do the math to see when I graduated.) Stay tuned.
I've also been busy getting ready for the upcoming new program through my internet radio station, The Hits of Yesterday. It's called Mainstream, and its an update of the program I had while on radio in the 70s. That was very much influenced by New York's WRVR, probably the best contemp jazz station in the seventies, and was a force in jazz and folk in the sixties. Mainstream will be broadcast on Sunday evenings at 5 pm EDT, 9 PM EDT and 12 AM EDT. That's nine o'clock in the Greenwich Mean Time, Eastern Daylight and Pacific Daylight time zones.
What I'm doing in preparation for this program, each 90 minutes long, is digitizing and cleaning up hundreds of album tracks, drawn from my collections, and ripping CD tracks of some albums that were reissued on CD. The span of music is from the 40s through the 70s, with artists such as Stan Kenton, Miles Davis, Bob James, Charlie Parker, Chuck Mangione and Thelonious Monk. I'm having a blast listening to all this great music, and I hope you do too.
Interesting web site of the week: make sure you leave it on the screen to see what it does.
A la prochaine!
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Things haven't been moving very fast around the blog-house, so I decided to make an eight hour day doing things on schedule. It's reduced the clutter, kept the floors clean and the house dusted, and makes me appreciate the things my wife did to keep the house looking nice.
Fallout continues with this CIA-outing incident, and I wonder how much more damaging this will be not only to our intelligence officers but to foreign intelligence, both friend and foe. The Washington Post has another article on this, amusingly entitled "The Spy Next Door," and reading it sounds like the plot of a Robert Rodriguez movie (you'll remember that a couple of his latest movies are the 'Spy Kids' franchise.) Busy mom with twins crushes foreign governments, that sort of thing.
And Ahnold is governator of Califohnia. Does this portend for the future? Our next generation is the one who'll be taking care of us in our old age. Eminem for president? Got a island I can retire to?
It looks like our high school class will have a 30th reunion (you do the math to see when I graduated.) Stay tuned.
I've also been busy getting ready for the upcoming new program through my internet radio station, The Hits of Yesterday. It's called Mainstream, and its an update of the program I had while on radio in the 70s. That was very much influenced by New York's WRVR, probably the best contemp jazz station in the seventies, and was a force in jazz and folk in the sixties. Mainstream will be broadcast on Sunday evenings at 5 pm EDT, 9 PM EDT and 12 AM EDT. That's nine o'clock in the Greenwich Mean Time, Eastern Daylight and Pacific Daylight time zones.
What I'm doing in preparation for this program, each 90 minutes long, is digitizing and cleaning up hundreds of album tracks, drawn from my collections, and ripping CD tracks of some albums that were reissued on CD. The span of music is from the 40s through the 70s, with artists such as Stan Kenton, Miles Davis, Bob James, Charlie Parker, Chuck Mangione and Thelonious Monk. I'm having a blast listening to all this great music, and I hope you do too.
Interesting web site of the week: make sure you leave it on the screen to see what it does.
A la prochaine!
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