Losing My Diary Virginity
Yes, 10 years thence, I've decided to toss some thoughts into the diary-o-sphere. Stream of consciousness opinions, observations, and cetera. Please follow me to the land below the spirograph. My...
View ArticlePumping Ivory-Firearms Edition
The NRA is playing on the emotions and stupidity of easily manipulated people. The saps are buying weapons by the barrel full, (perhaps even forgoing that new tattoo, or a trip to the dentist)...
View ArticleJoplin Rags....all of them....
I'm starting my project "The Complete Rags of Scott Joplin" this morning. Engineer Dale Reigle has graciously allowed me to record at the WUWF studios, the piano is a Yamaha C-7, a real beauty. There...
View ArticleNew Verb! Midterm Primary Edition
Cantorize: verb. To unseat with very little cash flow.We now return you to your regularly scheduled column.
View ArticlePumping Ivory, Minnesota Edition
Minnesota, it turns out, is a lovely (if not very warm) place. I'm certainly not shivering now, being back in the Florida Panhandle and aglow with the thought that some upstart college professor could...
View ArticlePumping Ivory, Clean and Sober
June 13th, 1990 It was probably, for most folks, another ordinary day. It was a Wednesday ( I remembered that, for some strange reason), a gallon of...
View ArticlePumping Ivory
“Pumping Ivory”Some syncopated musings from 45 years of professional pianistic prestidigitation.In the beginning...The Red Devil Supper Club was once a 'hot spot' on US 40 coming into Columbus, Ohio...
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