Today’s offerings are instumental. [audio:opeterson_summertime.mp3] Oscar Peterson – “Summertime” – from Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass (Play) Porgy and Bess. Peterson played piano. Mastered it. And yet, for this album, someone told him to play a clavichord, instead. The clavichord pre-dates the piano. Mozart played one. But it’s not really all that jazzy. If anything, …
08-08-06_0857.jpg Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. Stuck on the bulletin board of our local (near work) Caribou. Interested? Find out more.
John Lemley‘s unnecessary reaffirmations of Atlanta’s high local temperature aside, it is incredibly hot. Outside, I mean. Really. Nikki and I stepped out just this afternoon to do a some work in the lawn. She set about the removal of leaves. I had about a dozen seed potatoes to inter.* It wasn’t long until my …
Adventure Comics (November 1965) Originally uploaded by grabbingsand. To those who say that the Sixties were an incredibly ridiculous era in the history of DC Comics, I offer this particular issue of Adventure Comics from 1965 as … Well … Irrefutable proof of that claim. And yes, the interior of this comic is just as …
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