I know it is considered improper to think of the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as a racist, but I recall that when he first resided there he objected to people coming here from, as he put it in his typical way, "s--t-hole countries," and he now has sent masked agents abroad throughout the nation to detain people who look and sound like they might have come from such places, while he sets a priority for white folk with money.
The tuba article raises the question of what instruments are fun to play. I'm the type who is a master of none, but can pick up pretty much any wind instrument and figure it out.
My main instrument in high school and college was the oboe. The oboe is many things, but it's not a fun instrument to play. It's stressful. Plus I'm always reminded of that Denis Leary bit about why he quit smoking pot: it's not because he didn't like it, but he just didn't want to build anything. That's how I felt about the oboe. Spending all day obsessing over reeds is no fun at all. Maybe I should buy a tuba...
P.S. Arvo Pärt is delightful.
P P.S., after reading the Pärt write-up. You should have mentioned Miserere.
All men are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…this used to be considered self evident to all Americans yearning to breathe free…Never in my “extremely traumatic” teenage fever dreams (I kid, I KID Rock you that story of traumatized Aussie teenagers ahistorical lesson cracked me up) did I think I would come of age in a country where We the People have an Il Duce wannabe for President and millions of my fellow Americans tune in and drop out on this is 60 minutes on C.B.S…special emphasis on the roving, I mean drooling correspondent not calling The Don out for his bald face lying. God help U.S.
Did you hear the British Royal family just turned in the family jewels to the British Exchequer and moved into the humble Slough House like Jackson Lamb. Neither did I, I just made it up, like Britains former glory being the O.G. place for free thought and liberty for the individual being a thing of the past. God save the U.K., Morrissey loves company, the queen is dead
The lack of American outrage for the President of the United States rolling out the bloody red carpet on U.S. soil…for a war criminal and mass murderer who’s willing executioners murdered raped, tortured and kidnapped thousands of Ukrainians…and still applauds the Czar Putin is beyond Idiocracy…it is sheer lunacy The Don has not been impeached, removed and…Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment. I am not just drawing a line…I do not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those that do tolerate The Don and all his rampant criminality and high praise for fellow monsters, I mean mobsters Putin amd Xi. “Why should you not be indicted Mr. President” is all that useless C.B.S., emphasis on B.S., reporter should have asked The Don….what formerly sane Heritage and Claremont institutions would be calling for, if, all things being equal, The Don was a professing Democrat…our sitting President most definitely guilty of high crimes, as Putin is every bit a cold blooded murderer as Stalin…Did I draw the line at Presidents having nothing but praise for Putin. A Banana Republic, if We the People do not get rid of It. Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment God HELP U.S.
That is all, I am “extremely traumatized” Donald J Trump is still our President Duterte. It will forever dismay me how many a moral compass The Snake, I mean Donald J Trump, Heat Miser, has broken. God help U.S. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Later gator, I appreciate you mulchy Peace through superior mental firepower
Canadians really do apologize a lot, and this Canadian is true to type. My apologies are sincere! I don’t want to have inconvenienced my fellow shoppers, or park walkers, or cyclists, or church goers, or transit takers. I never want to be the reason someone felt slighted or interfered with, however inadvertent my action may have been. I need my fellow man, and he needs me, and I want to show him the courtesy that it behooves me to show him. But I understand the point about Carney. Our Prime Minister has an unenviable job at this moment. I did not vote for him, but I certainly wish him every success now that the mantle of leadership is his to bear up under. I want to live in peace and prosperity, and in harmony and cooperation with my American neighbours. Come, Friends! Let’s get our issues sorted! You work from your side and we’ll work from ours. The status quo is not anything to be proud of.
I was a first-year physics graduate student at Stony Brook in 1971-72. I never got to see C.N Yang teach, but I remember meeting him with great pleasure and honor, about ten years earlier than Mr. Kerrick. He is indeed lucky to have had the benefit of C.N. Yang's teaching.
"(4) A desire not to know, if knowing makes you think, “We ought to do something about it.”"
Yep, because folks of a certain stripe cannot stand the idea that the United States of America has a political, moral. and ethical responsibility to support and defend other free democracies in the world. "America First" and all that. Maybe except for Venezuela or Nigeria.
I’m not wild about the famous Widor Toccata — but still, when we were visiting Paris seven years ago, we made a point to be in Eglise Saint-Sulpice on Sunday morning (even though we’re not Catholic) to hear the organ on which Widor played for so many years. It was as much an organ recital as a worship service! The incumbent organist included a Widor piece among his selections that morning.
It was really cold that February day. It was so cold, walking around after the service, that we took refuge in the small Eugene
Delacroix Museum to warm up. We had seen Delacroix murals in the Saint-Sulpice church itself.
I know it is considered improper to think of the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as a racist, but I recall that when he first resided there he objected to people coming here from, as he put it in his typical way, "s--t-hole countries," and he now has sent masked agents abroad throughout the nation to detain people who look and sound like they might have come from such places, while he sets a priority for white folk with money.
The tuba article raises the question of what instruments are fun to play. I'm the type who is a master of none, but can pick up pretty much any wind instrument and figure it out.
My main instrument in high school and college was the oboe. The oboe is many things, but it's not a fun instrument to play. It's stressful. Plus I'm always reminded of that Denis Leary bit about why he quit smoking pot: it's not because he didn't like it, but he just didn't want to build anything. That's how I felt about the oboe. Spending all day obsessing over reeds is no fun at all. Maybe I should buy a tuba...
P.S. Arvo Pärt is delightful.
P P.S., after reading the Pärt write-up. You should have mentioned Miserere.
All men are endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…this used to be considered self evident to all Americans yearning to breathe free…Never in my “extremely traumatic” teenage fever dreams (I kid, I KID Rock you that story of traumatized Aussie teenagers ahistorical lesson cracked me up) did I think I would come of age in a country where We the People have an Il Duce wannabe for President and millions of my fellow Americans tune in and drop out on this is 60 minutes on C.B.S…special emphasis on the roving, I mean drooling correspondent not calling The Don out for his bald face lying. God help U.S.
Did you hear the British Royal family just turned in the family jewels to the British Exchequer and moved into the humble Slough House like Jackson Lamb. Neither did I, I just made it up, like Britains former glory being the O.G. place for free thought and liberty for the individual being a thing of the past. God save the U.K., Morrissey loves company, the queen is dead
The lack of American outrage for the President of the United States rolling out the bloody red carpet on U.S. soil…for a war criminal and mass murderer who’s willing executioners murdered raped, tortured and kidnapped thousands of Ukrainians…and still applauds the Czar Putin is beyond Idiocracy…it is sheer lunacy The Don has not been impeached, removed and…Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment. I am not just drawing a line…I do not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those that do tolerate The Don and all his rampant criminality and high praise for fellow monsters, I mean mobsters Putin amd Xi. “Why should you not be indicted Mr. President” is all that useless C.B.S., emphasis on B.S., reporter should have asked The Don….what formerly sane Heritage and Claremont institutions would be calling for, if, all things being equal, The Don was a professing Democrat…our sitting President most definitely guilty of high crimes, as Putin is every bit a cold blooded murderer as Stalin…Did I draw the line at Presidents having nothing but praise for Putin. A Banana Republic, if We the People do not get rid of It. Ashli Babbitt still cannot be reached for comment God HELP U.S.
That is all, I am “extremely traumatized” Donald J Trump is still our President Duterte. It will forever dismay me how many a moral compass The Snake, I mean Donald J Trump, Heat Miser, has broken. God help U.S. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward. Later gator, I appreciate you mulchy Peace through superior mental firepower
Canadians really do apologize a lot, and this Canadian is true to type. My apologies are sincere! I don’t want to have inconvenienced my fellow shoppers, or park walkers, or cyclists, or church goers, or transit takers. I never want to be the reason someone felt slighted or interfered with, however inadvertent my action may have been. I need my fellow man, and he needs me, and I want to show him the courtesy that it behooves me to show him. But I understand the point about Carney. Our Prime Minister has an unenviable job at this moment. I did not vote for him, but I certainly wish him every success now that the mantle of leadership is his to bear up under. I want to live in peace and prosperity, and in harmony and cooperation with my American neighbours. Come, Friends! Let’s get our issues sorted! You work from your side and we’ll work from ours. The status quo is not anything to be proud of.
I was a first-year physics graduate student at Stony Brook in 1971-72. I never got to see C.N Yang teach, but I remember meeting him with great pleasure and honor, about ten years earlier than Mr. Kerrick. He is indeed lucky to have had the benefit of C.N. Yang's teaching.
"(4) A desire not to know, if knowing makes you think, “We ought to do something about it.”"
Yep, because folks of a certain stripe cannot stand the idea that the United States of America has a political, moral. and ethical responsibility to support and defend other free democracies in the world. "America First" and all that. Maybe except for Venezuela or Nigeria.
I am becoming an Arvo Pärt groupie thanks to my SIL. Thanks for the piece on him.
I’m not wild about the famous Widor Toccata — but still, when we were visiting Paris seven years ago, we made a point to be in Eglise Saint-Sulpice on Sunday morning (even though we’re not Catholic) to hear the organ on which Widor played for so many years. It was as much an organ recital as a worship service! The incumbent organist included a Widor piece among his selections that morning.
It was really cold that February day. It was so cold, walking around after the service, that we took refuge in the small Eugene
Delacroix Museum to warm up. We had seen Delacroix murals in the Saint-Sulpice church itself.