I want to thank the good folks at Google for flashing me a banner when I sign into Gmail, telling me their sign-in page has a new, modern look. Otherwise I likely wouldn’t have noticed, and that just wouldn’t do. I hope they continue to… Read More
A beautiful waltz from one of the best stringbands working today, The Foghorn Stringband.
A blast from the past this afternoon. Here are Ian Dury & the Blockheads.
….but she never spoke Spanish to me. Here’s Texas Tornados performing the Butch Hancock Tune. I love the way Doug Sahm sings this hurtin’ number. And of course, there’s Flaco….
Check out this video from ChessBaseIndia. This is here in Toronto at the Great Hall on Queen W at the Candidates Tournament. Pragg got the full rock star treatment from fans when he emerged from the Hall today after defeating Vidit. Go Pragg!
We dropped by Sawmill Sid’s over by the Arsenal Lands, just the other side of Marie Curtis Park. We were looking for edge slices of wood showing all bark, which we would use in conjunction with our bird mosaics. It turned out we were easily… Read More
From the Chessbase India YouTube channel – this is last night at the Madison Pub here in Toronto, the eve of the big Candidates Tournament. For nerds like me, this is super-exciting! The fellow who does this channel has come all the way from Mumbai… Read More
Here’s Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones performing The She Likes Kielbasa Polka. This band was from Buffalo New York and at one point in the 80s they had one of the greatest polka bands in the land. Scrubby played the Chemnitzer Concertina. There was always… Read More
I love this drawing by SL Jones, which hangs in our dining room. Shields Landon Jones was born in West Virginia in 1901 and passed in 1997, also in WV. “A person has to have some work to do, so I carve some and play… Read More
Some super-fine squeezebox action here.
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