I’ve spent the last couple of days reliving the past via “The Help,” a moving film about black maids and the white families they served in 1960s Jackson, Miss., and ABC’s documentary “Jacqueline Kennedy: In Her Own Words,” based on interviews the former first lady did with Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a few months after JFK’s [...]
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Once there was dignity
September 15, 2011Gone fishin’
August 21, 2011I’m taking a little time off to spend what’s left of the summer paying attention to things other than the news. See you after Labor Day.
Partying and writing don’t mix
August 16, 2011I attended a family birthday celebration at Dave & Buster’s last night and got through it by consuming several Black and Tans, so instead of trying to write, I’m going to leave you a video shot Saturday of Ilisa Peralta’s guitar students performing Taylor Swift’s “You Belong With Me.” My granddaughters Sloane, 8, and Nakaylee, 7, are seated front and center in their first [...]
Birthday predictability
July 20, 2011Today I have the pleasure of celebrating the birthdays of not one, but two, granddaughters and I’m not going to pollute the day with politics. Sloane and Nakaylee were born exactly one year apart; Sloane is turning 8 and Nakaylee makes 7. We have an unusual number of doubled-up birthdays in my family, including one [...]
Plunking for Shane
July 7, 2011I pretty much confine my voting to going to the polls on election day and have never been a fan of participating in shows like “American Idol” or voting in the online polls sponsored by news organizations. So I was much surprised to find myself sitting with my iPad last night casting vote after vote [...]
Fading away into the Fourth
June 29, 2011Like many others, I’m sliding into an early start on the holiday and won’t see you again until next week. But I wanted to leave something to help you get into the spirit and what better way than “Rave On Buddy Holly,” a new tribute to the late rock legend with 19 tracks by the [...]
A Father’s Day tie
June 17, 2011I’m taking the day off in honor of Father’s Day, and I leave you with a timeless Groucho Marx tribute to the occasion:
Give some YouTube love to my nephew Jake
May 27, 2011We seem to have drifted into featuring good music on Fridays, which isn’t a bad way to end the week. Today’s spotlight is on my nephew Jake Conol from Glenwood on the Big Island, with his soulful cover of Michael Bublé’s “Home.” I consider Jake to be possibly a major undiscovered talent in Hawai‘i and [...]
Getting my ash kicked over European volcano
May 25, 2011The renewed volcanic activity in Iceland that is spewing a cloud of ash toward Europe is again causing me grief because of the name of my blog. As with last year’s eruption, travelers looking for information about flight cancelations search Google for “volcanic ash,” find my blog and ask me for the latest news. When [...]
A good man feeling bad
May 20, 2011The headline is the best statement of the blues I’ve heard and nobody played it better than Sam “Lightnin’ ” Hopkins, who picks, sings and talks the blues in the above video I recently came upon clipped from the 1967 short film “The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins.” (Part one, Part two) A Hopkins blues [...]
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