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October means playoff baseball. In most years, if your team is not in the playoffs, it simply means you root for other teams and enjoy the extra month of the ultimate summer game before the long darkness kicks off. This year, unfortunately for us all, there is yet another looming lockout for America’s Pastime. That… Read more
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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on May 4th, 2011. Of the five major poets of the Romantic period (I am not counting Blake as a Romantic here), Keats is the most beloved. His poem and lines from his poems are also the… Read more
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‘Nuff said! Read more
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Album King Cole at the Piano Artist Nat King Cole Year 1960 (compilation of earlier trio recordings) Personnel Nat King Cole (piano), Oscar Moore (guitar), Johnny Miller (bass) (personnel vary slightly by recording date) Era / Style Piano Trio / Swing / Early Jazz Favorite Tracks None singled out First Listen Reaction I came to… Read more
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“Dracula embodies the fear of the unknown and he personifies the ‘nothing in the darkness’ that keeps children awake at night.” — Steve Roberts Another year and yet another rereading of Dracula. To be honest, I am no longer sure at this point how many times I have actually reread this classic. I only know that I… Read more
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“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”― Leo Durocher Read more
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Throwback Thursdays at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on February 22nd, 2011 (so almost 16 years ago). In 1813, poet William Wordsworth, tired of being the starving artist, took a government job as stamp distributor in Westmorland. Shelley, among others (Browning wrote of Wordsworth’s decision… Read more
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Album Blowin’ the Blues Away Artist Horace Silver Year 1959 Personnel Horace Silver (piano), Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook (tenor saxophone), Eugene Taylor (bass), Louis Hayes (drums) Era / Style Hard Bop / Soul Jazz Favorite Tracks “The St. Vitus Dance,” “Peace,” “Melancholy Mood” First Listen Reaction A worthwhile listening experience with several standout tracks,… Read more
