Miles is a senior now at LeMoyne in Syracuse and we've gotten used to being a family of four not five most of the time, but on the Tuesday night ahead of Thanksgiving he emerged safely in his Nissan...
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Track/Porch- Party/Music/Dance/Repeat…Aug 2013
(Bloggers note: OK, sorry, real life and job change intruded on the aftermath of this episode, finally getting to this in late September, which makes me the slowest blogger in existence, I know. Furthermore, I have not finished it yet...
Idyllic August Impressions: Up Early Up North
I was awake anyway-- never really sleeping late anymore, even on a brief vacation-- but a strangely Squawking Crow compelled me to unzip the tent and arise. The day was just breaking and you only get one chance to see...
Stellar Young at Skidmore’s Tang Museum, 7/19/13, and a Dose of Americanarama
It was unfortunate for this band that they were scheduled for their performance "Up On The Roof" at Skidmore's noted Tang Museum on what turned out to be the absolute hottest day of a brutal two week heat wave in...
What The Visitors Will Note…(Summer 2013)
I start this version of the blog on the week before the influx of racetrack fans and horse people...the time of year when Saratoga Springs, NY doubles, triples, then quadruples in population, culminating in Traver's Week toward late August,...
James Howard Kunstler’s “World Made By Hand”
I used to say I knew Jimmy Kunstler when he still had a sense of humor, way back in the day, say late '70's, early '80's, when his first couple of books were in the category of slapstick comedy. His...
Ravi Coltrane at Skidmore’s Zankel Music Center, 6/25/13
The posters I saw on Phila Street and Caroline advertising this event, part of the perennial Jazz Institute Concert Series each summer at Skidmore College, were quite compelling. Usually I note such concerts when they are already past, or they...
Fountain of Downtown Youth, 2013
I turned 58 since I last penned any blogs, and some days I feel that old, some days I still feel 23 and a half. The night I will describe here was one of the latter, and I will tell...
Tribute to Ray Manzarek of The Doors
It's only a three-quarter moon but it wakes me up at midnight and it feels full. Just before I went to sleep I read that keyboardist and composer Ray Manzarek had died earlier today, in Germany. A resident of...
Getting Past the False Springs, & the Yellow Dilemma…
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