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Monthly Archives: May 2022
Memorial Day, 2022
Once again, we remember. For Sgt. James Michial Moore, USA, KIA, Vietnam, and those before and after. Archibald MacLeish was an ambulance driver and artilleryman in World War I, and his brother, a naval aviator, was killed on 14 October 1918. Kenneth … Continue reading
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Painful Synchronicities: Alan White, RIP
Several times recently I’ve mentioned the death of my friend James Kolasa. As this moment, my friend, Dr. William Harris, is playing what amounts to a memorial set to James on the radio station of the college where he works. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Education, Family, Music, Uncategorized, Why I Do What I Do
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Potpourri: Beginnings and Conclusions and Beginnings
Today would have my dad’s 79th birthday. During the penalty phase of my brother’s trial, I was asked about losing my parents. Of my father, I said that a son is supposed to admire his father, and that my dad … Continue reading
Posted in Alternating Feet, Culture, Education, Family, Music, Why I Do What I Do
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In Which the Prof Is Handed the Lost Chords
In the early 1980s, when I was a music-obsessed teen (as opposed to my current status as a music-obsessed, middle-aged man), I would listen to the radio late at night. This was before what I’ve come to think of as … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Music, Pixel-stained Wretchery
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Sunday Potpourri: Mother’s Day Edition
Happy Mother’s Day, gang! The Spawn is spending the afternoon with the Main Squeeze’s family up in Terpville, but spent nearly an hour chatting with Mrs. M yesterday afternoon, maintaining her record of being a Good Kid. And I hope … Continue reading
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Sucker Bets
… and the odds will not improve. This is part of why I tell my students to seek anything but an academic career, unless they genuinely can’t conceive of doing anything else. On the upside, I got a short story … Continue reading
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