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  • Good-bye 2017, Hello 2018

    January 2, 2018

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  • Epigraph of the Month: Weather Report for Costaguana [by David Lehman}

    January 1, 2018

    <<<"so foul a sky clears not without a storm." — Shakespeare>>>Joseph Conrad's epigraph for Nostromo Bonus epigraph:<< "Those that hold that all things are governed by Fortune had not erred, had they not persisted…

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  • “Come Rain or Come Shine”: two versions (Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald)

    December 31, 2017

    Here's Sarah Vaughan: and here's Ella Fitzgerald:

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  • Dodger Fans Take Note: It’s Sandy Koufax’s birthday

    December 30, 2017

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  • So Artie Shaw (born today) goes to Mexico and comes back with “Frenesi”

    December 29, 2017

       

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  • “If they asked me. .” [by David Lehman]

    December 29, 2017

    If they asked me to choose one of my favorite words leaving out the pronouns I would skip to "if."At the heart of rhetoric is "if" or sometimes "as if."If has the greatest potential.…

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