43 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  2.  
    “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –
     
    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
     
    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
     
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
     
    The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing;
     
    The glassy pear tree leaves and blooms, they brush
     
    The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
     
    With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.”
     

    [From “Spring” by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1899)]

     

  3. Schumann is one of Mrs P’s favorites. She is the person in our house with a bit of culture. Wonderful music.

  4. Jace… wonderful!

    Bink… thanks for those 2 videos the other day….  someone has to keep all us old farts up to date…

  5. Thank you Jace.  Beautiful as always.

    A piece to fit the weather everyone seems to be having:  Late Winter – Early Spring by John Denver with some lovely guitar work.

     

  8. Can’t help but wonder if Robert wrote this for the concert hall or for Clara to play it for him. In either case, it’s beautiful. Superb choice, Jace. TY

  9. Watching the snippets of Melania at yesterday’s funeral it strikes that is was the first time she has experienced the welcoming embrace of people who fully understand her situation.

  11. We could guess…..”so happy to see you without the wart you should have it permanently removed”

  12. noteworthy oped
    On The Denver Post, vultures and superheroes
    By Mike Littwin
    The Colorado Independent

     

    to be read along with a piece from ny times:  Colorado Group Pushes to Buy Embattled Denver Post From New York Hedge Fund

     

    A Colorado civic group is spearheading an effort to buy The Denver Post, which on Sunday excoriated its owner, a New York hedge fund, in its opinion section by saying, “Denver deserves a newspaper owner who supports its newsroom.”
    The group, Together for Colorado Springs, said it had begun contacting potential investors in the state, who have so far pledged $10 million to the effort.
    “We believe that The Denver Post is vital for Colorado,” John Weiss, the chairman of Together for Colorado Springs and the founder of The Colorado Springs Independent, a weekly newspaper, said in an interview. “It should be owned by people in Denver, but it should also be owned by people statewide because it’s a statewide paper, not just a Denver paper.”
    The initiative follows a revolt at The Post that grew out of years of dissatisfaction with the paper’s owner, Alden Global Capital, which has cut costs and significantly shrunk the newsroom staff….. [..continues…]
     

     

  14. I like newspapers and have had a love hate relationship with them because for the most part they did not cover issues I thought important and when they did the coverage was often bad.   I do not think that the end of the printed newspaper is that bad

    I have fond memories of Sundays a big pitcher of bloody marys, the ny times, the washpoo and your hometown newspaper if you could get it the closest to the Canton Repository was the Cleveland Plaindealer a much better paper anyway

  15. On the Denver Post, I know the paper of olde; its loss of newsroom strength is most regrettable. Reading the oped, though, at least, as of now, they aren’t being censored by their owners.

    At the Atlantic, the outlook isn’t so bright. In yesterday’s weekend edition, in its socially oriented Review Section, the Wall Street Journal has a major story by Kevin D. Williamson, a former writer and editor at National Review for ten years, who had just been hired away from that publication by the Atlantic.

    He reports, “My first piece appeared in the Atlantic on April 2, I was fired on April 5.”

    Jeffrey Goldberg told him that the cause for his departure is the continuing fallout of a tweet he wrote regarding abortion,W etc., four years earlier. Evidently a new campaign of tweets had been directed at the Atlantic once reports of his March hiring had circulated.

    Williamson closes his article:
    Without credible journalism, all we have is the Twitter mob, which is a jealous god, jealous and kind of stupid.

    It’s a worthwhile piece that consumes almost two pages of the Journal’s space.

  21. Watching Up The Down Staircase on TCM.

    Which is why I love TCM because they are the only network who would show it.

     

  22. Spring is almost ready to say it is arrived here on the Chesapeake Bay.  We have had two years of warm February and winter until Mother’s Day.

    Making kimchi today, finally.  Down to a gallon of it and I am afraid to look at when I made those two packs.  H-Mart had American wild caught crawdads today.  Not the muddy Chinese specimens.  Trying to decide whether they should grace a Jambalaya or just on their own in a bowl.

    I have avoided the news today.  I do not know what is going on and I plan on keeping it that way until late tonight, or better, tomorrow morning.  For entertainment I was practicing on a new GoPro camera, set up to catch the birds coming in to my pond, when I noticed a movement off my right. Looking around I spot Boo the cat on top of a tarp shed.  She is adventurous. It was her dismount that I waited for.  She slid down like she was on a sled.  She is good.

  23. You’re welcome, RR.  I try not to post music because i feel no one listens to it, but now that i know, here’s a hip one for you, kinda like Jamiroquai meets Lionel Ritchie meets Stevie Wonder, pretty cool:

  24. Well done Bink

    I always follow the dictum that if people don’t like a selection, all videos come with a “Stop” button.  It’s good to at list dip our toes in the current trends rushing by.

  25. from cnn:

    […]
    The remarkable photo features four former presidents — Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush — along with first lady Melania Trump and former first ladies Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton.
    The photo, taken Saturday by Paul Morse, a former White House photographer for George W. Bush, was initially tweeted by Jim McGrath, the spokesperson for George H. W. Bush in his post-White House years.
    [….]
    Many were quick to praise the photo, with some commenting on the character of the former leaders — and possibly making veiled digs at the present commander-in-chief.
    David Preiss, who served in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations as an intelligence officer, wrote, “Each president in this photo did things I disagreed with politically. Quite a lot, in fact, for most of them. And yet I never doubted that every single one of them acted based on core values, including love of country — not, primarily, love of self.”
    Michael Hayden, retired four-star general, former director of the National Security Agency and former head of the CIA, quote tweeted Preiss’s comment, adding, “Ain’t that the truth.”
    [….continues…]

  26. I listen to all that stuff……and that cut my hair song I did quite a bit back during the Bar Wars…..nice when a band gives you a good bar song…..

  28. A band full of LSD playing for a room full of peoples on LSD is no place for the faint of heart…….

  31. Holy Ecology!  Happy Earth Day!  I remember the first Earth Day as I was in high school and it was a big event.  I still have two of the original buttons.
    From the links —
    Ecology became a major political issue in the 1960s and 1970s and the British Ecology Party was formed in 1972. Unfortunately people found the name unmemorable and in 1975 it was rebranded as the Green Party.
    On April 22,1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.
    Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. By the end of that year, the first Earth Day had led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. “It was a gamble,” Gaylord recalled, “but it worked.”

  34. Glad to hear the dems are suing —

    From the new republic — Taking a president and his campaign to court for criminal activity isn’t without precedent: The DNC sued Richard Nixon’s campaign for the break-in at the party’s Watergate headquarters, eventually receiving a $750,000 settlement in 1974.

    From aarp — The experts said the same thing about the Dem suit then. The suit was one of the main things that helped bring Nixon to justice, and proved to be of great value to all. Time will tell if this court action does the same thing but it based on the same type of election interference only in a more modern way. The did not have internet in watergates time.

  35. That piano in the Maurice Williams picture is the World Famous Wurlitzer electric road case piano.   Indestructible.   It had metal reeds struck by the felt hammers of a more or less conventional piano mechanism.   You had to have on hand if possible a whole new set of reeds very expensive, but a box full of various new and used reeds you could pluck thru like Fred sanford looked for his glasses and find one which might work……you could always adjust them by adding a drop of solder or filing some off…..(file and soldering kit in the box of reeds)…..sooner or later those guys will break and nothing worse that losing a couple of rather necessary keys here and there.

  36. Tell me What’d I Say……Ray chose that piano over the real one……maybe that’s all they had……either way, it sold a lot of pianos.

  42. Wurlitzer was a player in the real piano biz and then jumped onto trying to come up with a successful electric piano at some point during the age of electricity……they succeeded wildly where others couldn’t get it.

    im going to have to go read the history of Wurlitzer now…..

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