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“O, wearisome condition of humanity!” [by Fulke Greville — and Aldous Huxley]
Oh wearisome Condition of Humanity!Born under one law, to another bound:Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity,Created sick, commanded to be sound:What meaneth Nature by these diverse laws? Passion and reason, self-division cause. There…
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“Frenesi” (Artie Shaw and Orchestra)
Artie Shaw went to Mexico for a vacation and came back with "Frenesi." Listen to that clarinet, now mellow, now a glissando smear. GIs in France after D=Day were taught to pronounce the French…
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“Amapola” (vocals Helen O’Connell & Bob Eberly; Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra; 1941)
This is what you hear throughout Sergio Leone's movie masterpiece Once Upon a Time in America. The same one-two punch — Eberly crooning, O'Connell jaunty and uptempo — is also to be found in…
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Fragments 61-70 (from Selected Fragments) [by Alan Ziegler]
From my father’s log of 1940 cross-country trip: “Reno, Aug 17. Went out to take the town. P.S. the town took us!” Come one, come all, buy my vacuum cleaner. Be a friend of…
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The Wisdom of Warren Buffett
"How do you become a millionaire? You start out as a billionaire and you buy an airline." — Warren Buffett
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Meet the Press: Dante Di Stefano in Conversation with Jessica Kristie of Winter Goose Publishing and William Stratton, Author of These Things Too Have Shape
DD: How did Winter Goose come into being? Can you give us a brief history of the press? JK: In 2011 I started WGP from a desire to stay close to the written word…
