Tonite: the Dean Martinis at the Flying Monkey; tomorrow nite at Sambuca near the Station Inn, Nashville, TN.
Tag Archives: music
The way we want to hear the neverending story
In the U.S., a public radio network that is oddly called National Public Radio frequently broadcasts a show hosted by a singing comedian named Garrison (not Barracks) Keillor (not Keelhaul).
I’m not a big fan of the show because it’s just too squeaky clean for my comedic tastes.
The show, however, is what they call family-friendly.
Enter the British…
Thanks to the quirky less-than-zero family-friendly humour of Eric Idle, I found an old-fashioned radio show to my tastes:
“What About Dick?” [ https://whataboutdick.com/%5D
Which reminds me…
Our lab technician, after quietly hacking every home/business security company, can now, without need of your phone’s/car’s location data, know where you’ll be when, making our marketing efforts easier than determining who’s home using telemarketing data collection.
More as it develops…
Should I buy Mel Brooks’ latest collection,
“The Incredible Mel Brooks: An Irresistible Collection of Unhinged Comedy”? Hmm…
When all is said and done…retire!
How does a writer retire reprovingly? Through the foreign press, of course!
Adios, au revoir, auf wiedersehen!
All the best to Philip Roth!
Ticks and Tufts
To act the part of one who is insane, one can get to know the insane.
But what is insanity?
Have you ever visited an insane asylum?
What is the absence or opposite of insanity?
Two recent events have bummed me out — the loss of the political party of my parents in national elections and the recent spy movie called “Skyfall.”
Both imply that the generation which raised me has passed the torch to a generation that has been labeled the “Me” Generation and the Baby Boomers, allegedly including myself.
The next generation, as exemplified by a recent restaurant server of ours who reminded us of the character Mr. Humphries in “Are You Being Served?” and knows neither Benny Hill nor “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” will have to decide for itself what of my generation is worth perpetuating.
For them, a “war” on foreign soil must seem normal, having experienced sensational news headlines about the continuing war on terror in countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, etc.
For some of them, the phrase “7/7” or “9/11” will seem as old-fashioned as “Remember the Alamo,” or “December 7th, 1941…a date which will live in infamy.”
The old wars of military might have not completely faded away but new wars — cyber, financial, cultural — pick up the pace.
With Stephen Covey dead and gone, will anyone in the new generation know what a win-win situation is?
What about insanity?
How much of any one generation (generation being a label, of course, that generalises, not always accurately) is insane and is carried on by the next one?
“Why I voted for the Green Party”
The words we choose follow in perpetuity, echoes crashing against canceling waves upon waves of grain and wheat and grapes and leaves.
A voice appears to appear in the middle of a laptop computer due to stereo speaker sounds competing for binaural ear stimulation interpretation.
I have no idea about today.
I live 1000 years from now, where sounds from this moment are embedded in layers of archaeological papers and electronic storage.
I have.
I live.
A historically accurate portrayal of Christa DeCicco vibrates the air from 2009.
Drumbeats.
Trumpets.
Happiness is sitting here, electricity lighting the air, my eyeballs, the wind, the desktop designed for a writing surface height, not a laptop computer keyboard.
Parties celebrate, mourn, serve, destroy.
Punch bowls, cookies, napkins, candy, cups.
Doing what I want, many expenses spared, nodding my head to the music.
Thinking ahead, behind, behead, ahind, letters and characters symbolically assembling thoughts rhythmically.
Composing the next video.
Looking for an artist, an ensemble, to complete the audiovisual puzzle.
Waiting…
As usual.
Waiting…
Very unusual…
Waiting…
Waiting…
Tables.
Bars.
Songs.
Nonsense words.
13,695 days to go…
Hum, did-ee, dumdum, doo-be, be-too.
250
250 films in 2.5 minutes — is that a record?
Silence or tears
Sitting front and center, listening to Christabel and the Jons, with new band members and guest singer Ian Thomas, at the Flying Monkey Theatre after shopping at Karma Rags.
Christa’s moving to St. Thomas, once this farewell tour is over.
It’s been great fun listening and dancing to the musical styles of this regionally recognised ensemble.
Who, in my thoughts, shall replace them?
Time is music…c’est la vie ou la guerre (or guerilla at the guesthouse)?
Nuttin, honey
Overheard: “That guy is the stray nut left in the bottom of the bowl at the end of a party.”
Here’s the stop-action video for this week, honouring those who have given their time, talent and lives for victims of disasters, including the latest in the United States — Hurricane Sandy.
Reminds me of a joke.
Q: What do you call a werewolf elf on the beach at Christmas?
A: Sandy Claws!
A Ghoulish Gathering
Happily wornout, the future on hold, all I can say is “what a blast!” after dancing this evening to the blues and jug music of Microwave Dave and the Nukes.
Part 2 of II: Randomised email pingbacks
Do you ever receive email messages that show someone has tried to use your website’s email system to send email?
Here is the second part of two unplanned blog entries about randomised messages on the Internet — who says computer don’t talk to us semicoherently? Can you imagine an off-Broadway minimalist play, “Waiting for G@dhelpme.plz,” where the players read these random messages to each other? Have they already done so?:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at .
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
<>:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
The following message to <> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 – Unknown address error 553-‘sorry, this recipient is in my badrecipientto list (#5.7.1)’
The following message to <> was undeliverable.
The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 – Unknown address error 550-‘Invalid recipient: <>’
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
—– Original message —–
Received: by with SMTP id ;
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:14:01 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <>
Received: from [] ([)
by with ESMTP id ;
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:14:01 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: neutral : is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ) client-ip=;
Authentication-Results: ; spf=neutral ( is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of ) smtp.mail=
From: “LinkedIn.Invitations” <>
To: >
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:43:59 +0430
Subject: New invitation
Message-ID: <>
Accept-Language: en-US
Content-Language: en-US
x-linkedin-template: inv_exp_member_02
x-linkedin-class: INVITE-MBR
Content-Type: text/html; charset=”utf-8″
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0
—– End of message —–
Delivery has failed to these recipients or distribution lists:
The recipient’s e-mail address was not found in the recipient’s e-mail system. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. Please check the e-mail address and try resending this message, or provide the following diagnostic text to your system administrator.
The following email account(s) do not exist. Please check the address(es) and send the message again. Thanks:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at .
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
<>:
This mailbox does not have enough space to receive your message.
<>… User unknown
Failed to deliver to ”
mail loop: too many hops (too many ‘Received:’ header fields)
Hello ,
We’re writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact () may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group. A few more details on why you weren’t able to post:
* You might have spelled or formatted the group name incorrectly.
* The owner of the group may have removed this group.
* You may need to join the group before receiving permission to post.
* This group may not be open to posting.
If you have questions related to this or any other Google Group, visit the Help Center at .
Thanks,
admins
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
Delivery to the following recipients failed.
This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:
Message-id: <>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:22:02 -0200
From: “” <>
To:
Subject: eFax: You have received new fax
Your message cannot be delivered to the following recipients:
Recipient address:
Reason: Remote SMTP server has rejected address
Diagnostic code: smtp;550-Mailbox unknown. Either there is no mailbox associated with this you do not have authorization to see it. User unknown
Remote system: dns;. (TCP|) ( server ready)
The original message was received at Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:24:38 -0400 (EDT)
from []
—– The following addresses had permanent fatal errors —–
<>
(reason: 550 5.1.1 <>… User unknown)
(expanded from: <>)
—– Transcript of session follows —–
… while talking to .:
>>> DATA
<<< 550 5.1.1 ><>… User unknown
550 5.1.1 <>… User unknown
<<< 503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at .
I’m afraid I wasn’t able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I’ve given up. Sorry it didn’t work out.
<>:
Unable to write /dev/null: invalid argument. (#4.3.0)
I’m not going to try again; this message has been in the queue too long.
treetrunkdings 