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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #268 - Geek Closet


Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #268 - Geek Closet

SUBTITLED: LET YOUR GEEK FLAG FLY.

Hi Mom, Today's subject is being a geek, and how that's so much more okay socially than it was when I was a kid.

Lately, (and by lately, I mean in the last seven years), I have found myself saying "I gotta let my geek flag fly" often and to many different in response to comments about my wardrobe or evident interests.

Some time, in the years since I was a kid, being a geek became cool. Seeing women embrace geekdom, especially, has changed everything.

I know I am making a bad comparison here. "Being in the closet" is an idiom most often for non-heterosexual people who feel that they need to hide their identity from the world. That's a serious thing. Sexual identity, gender identity, or just identity period in terms of such a fundamental idea as the way we display ourselves to the world is a serious thing, and I would never make light of it.

But this idea of the "closet" as a place to hide one's real identity from the world applies to being a geek as well. Many of us geeks had the same issues. We had to hide our true selves, our interests, our passions from the world as a simple safety issue. Like so many geeks, I was beaten up and bullied for liking comic books, stamp collecting, role playing games, magic, theatre, science fiction, and a wide range of geeky things. And so I had to hide and deflect. Sharing these passions with someone became an issue of trust. I was never one to totally hide. I worked on role playing materials openly in my college classes. I made recorded announcements for our gaming group that were played weekly on the morning announcements broadcast throughout the school. So, I wasn't fully in the closet, and this is why the comparison lacks a bit. And yet, I often tried to "pass" as a non-geek in certain situations, especially in my pursuit of women. In fact, it seemed to me that my very geeky nature was what blocked my access to women. (I know it sounds awful to describe dating as "access" and yet it seems apt that there's a wall in the way formed by my own geek-driven interests.)

I started thinking about this subject when I was writing the T-shirt blog -- 365 T-shirts -- which is actually and officially subtitled "a journal of my life in geek." I never made a geek, geeky, geekdom, geekerrific, or any other geek-related category for the blog because the whole thing was about liking geeky things and being geeky.

But I do have a "geeky" category for this blog. I originally addressed this issue back in Hey Mom #159, which was mostly just a T-shirt reprint of some cool stuff, including a comic from THE OATMEAL about TESLA.

But then I decided to pursue this subject again after seeing this article about Pia Wurtzbach:

Miss Universe Pia Wurtzbach = geek.


Pia Wurtzbach was involved in a bit of controversy when Miss Universe 2015 host Steve Harvey accidentally announced the wrong winner as Ariadna Gutiérrez, who was then crowned and wore the crown for approximately three minutes before the mistake was rectified and the crown taken away from Gutiérrez and given to Wurtzbach, the rightful winner according to the judges.

Videos from the pageant went viral. The wiki for Miss Universe 2015 is quite extensive on this point. I remember my wife and kids watching the videos because it was quite a spectacle in shame and in how to conduct one's self in public as one contestant was crowned and uncrowned as she watches someone else crowned. Hey, this stuff is important to some people (not really to me).

Pia Wurtzbach hit my radar when I was reading about comic books and this article was featured on one of the sites, and so here's the actual title of the article with link (my previous was my abbreviation): The Miss Universe Had the Nerdiest Reaction When Invited to Final Fantasy XV Event.

Final Fantasy is even pretty seriously geeky for me. Not that I would judge anyone for their geek passion, but some people look down on Final Fantasy even now that geeky stuff is cooler. The article is worth looking at because apparently REDDIT exploded as all kinds of closet Final Fantasy fans geeked out over the fact that someone like Pia Wurtzbach was so thrilled to be asked about her love for Final Fantasy.

It's inspiring to see interactions like this. The Internet has truly changed everything.

I am not the only one who feels free to let his (or her) geek flag fly.




So I googled the name of today's entry -- "Geek Closet" -- to see what I would get for results.

Apparently, there's a clothes stores named Geek Closet, which doesn't really surprise me. There's this woman (left) who works as an actress and created a Gamestop account that is now disabled and inactive, but through which she was selling herself as a sexy geek in the closet and has made some You Tube videos. I really like this picture and the raised eye brow, so I had to include it along with the college composition at the bottom of today's entry.

Then there's some other stuff. Some guys with a .net site. A woman with her blog and a column at comic book daily (because geekdom is associated with comic books and gaming for the most part).

A deeper search does not yield much in the way of good results though maybe now this blog will appear.

GEEK CLOSET-store

CLOSET GEEK - disabled Gamestop profile

The Closet Geek (.net)

COMING OUT OF THE GEEK CLOSET

COME OUT OF THE GEEK CLOSET


Since I married Liesel, I have been more comfortable with letting my geek flag fly because I have found the love of my life and being who I am will not prohibit finding her anymore. Not that I was ever terribly conformist. I have always been good about being who I am, I was just less open about it in years past. I am much more free with who I am now, and I like myself. I have not always been able to say that. A long time ago a woman broke up with me by telling me that she couldn't respect me because I didn't respect myself. Well, point taken, and that is no longer the case.

I am a geek.

I like what I like.

And I am proud of it.

If nothing else, this is what you taught me to be, Mom. So thank you.




This seems like a good time to share a comic book cover gallery... :-)

Letting my geek flag fly!

COMIC BOOK COVER GALLERY

Descriptive entries with artist information can be found on Pencil Ink Blog.


















Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.


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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1603.31 - 10:10


NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this
only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.



The Daily Bowie #57 - "Move On"


"Somewhere there's an ocean
Innocent and wild"

The Daily Bowie #57 - "Move On"

My journey of posting Bowie songs continues to evolve. I had "writing about Bowie songs," but I am not doing much writing. Yet, as I explore songs I have chosen for posting, I learn new things, such as the core of Bowie's "Move On" from his 1979 album Lodger is the chorus of Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes" backwards. And so, two videos today,. If you're really interested, play the "backwards" video. It's just "Move On" played backwards. Then you could listen to Mott the Hoople's "All the Young Dudes" again (there's a link from the video maker's You Tube page), but if you know the song you'll here it.

From the "Move On" entry from PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME:

A working title for Lodger was Planned Accidents; “Move On” was an inspired one. Bowie had been sitting listening to some old tapes and accidentally played “All the Young Dudes” backwards. He was taken by the odd, strangled melody that resulted, and had Alomar write out the “inverted” chord changes and had the band learn to play it. Then Bowie crafted a vocal that would push against the new flow. Visconti, in his autobiography, described its recording: David and I flipped the new version’s tape over and played it backwards, and sang the melody of “All the Young Dudes” forwards—I know I’ve lost most of you—and that became “Move On.”
I have always liked "Move On" because in simplest terms it's just an ode to travel lust. I am a home body, but I often have wander lust and wish to cut loose and let serendipity rule. Fortunately, my wife shares these feelings, possibly more so.

Move On” is a travelogue whose lyric was inspired by Bowie’s recent journeys to Kenya (on vacation with his son), Japan and Australia; it’s also a record of a man fearful of being trapped in the past and, more pressingly, himself and so he pushes onward, without a plan, and with only vague fantasies to guide him. “Feeling like a shadow, drifting like a leaf,” Bowie sings as the song winds out; a new territory exacts a harsh cost.
more From the "Move On" entry from PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME (above).

DAVID BOWIE

LODGER


"Move On" - LODGER - 1979





"Move On" - BACKWARDS



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"Move On"

Sometimes I feel
That I need to move on
So I pack a bag
And move on
Move on

Well I might take a train
Or sail at dawn
Might take a girl
When I move on
When I move on

Somewhere, someone's calling me
When the chips are down
I'm just a travelling man
Maybe it's just a trick of the mind, but
Somewhere there's a morning sky
Bluer than her eyes
Somewhere there's an ocean
Innocent and wild

Africa is sleepy people
Russia has its horsemen
Spent some nights in old Kyoto
Sleeping on the matted ground
Cyprus is my island
When the going's rough
I would love to find you
Somewhere in a place like that

Somewhere, someone's calling me
When the chips are down
I stumble like a blind man
Can't forget you
Can't forget you

Feeling like a shadow
Drifting like a leaf
I stumble like a blind man
Can't forget you
Can't forget you

Can't forget you
Can't forget you



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Rest in peace, David. We miss you.

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1603.31 -  7:37

NOTE ON WHY THE DAILY BOWIE IS NO LONGER DAILY: For 53 days, I completed daily Bowie posts. My schedule is too demanding to make a post every day, so this will now be a feature that is called The Daily Bowie, but it will not be daily. I will post as I can. I will post often. But if I miss a day, I will skip it. Otherwise, I get in the position of making five Bowie posts all in one day, and that's a lot of Bowie for people to swallow all at once... (yeah, leaving that badly phrased, innuendo packed statement. I bet Bowie would have laughed at it).

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #267 - Lost Lovecraft Manuscript, Houdini, and Racism


Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #267 - Lost Lovecraft Manuscript, Houdini, and Racism

Hi Mom, and here we are again in our continuing series of things I care about and want to share with you but that your interest in them is solely because you love me and try to show interest in things that interest me. This goes all the way back to my early childhood when I quizzed your knowledge of dinosaurs withe my dinosaur flashcards.

I have Warren Ellis to thank for this article, like so many things he finds before I do. And when I noticed that the article combined two things I love -- HP Lovecraft and Harry Houdini -- it became more important for me to post about this news on my blog.

Apparently, Houdini commissioned Lovecraft to write an article on superstition. Previously only an outline and a first chapter existed. Recently, among unarchived papers from Houdini's estate, a thirty-one page manuscript was found that is the work of Lovecraft delivered to Houdini shortly before his death in 1926 and thus misplaced until now. Lovecraft had advanced the original idea substantially in these pages, though the work was left unfinished.

Here's the link, but I am going to copy and present the content farther below, with credit of course.

THE GUARDIAN: LOVECRAFT MANUSCRIPT ON SUPERSTITION FOUND AMONG HARRY HOUDINI'S PAPERS.

I came a bit late to the H.P. Lovecraft party. I tried to read his work off and on since high school but I kept getting distracted. I knuckled-down and applied myself to most of the short stories a few years ago and enjoyed them immensely. There are some first rate audio editions now, and I plan to listen again some time in the next few years.

Here's some tasty links for those wishing to spend some Internet time investigating Lovecraft, who has a great name for an author of horror.


LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR

HP LOVECRAFT ARCHIVE

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF H.P. LOVECRAFT

THE H.P. LOVECRAFT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

There's also this, which is a great essay on horror:

"Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft

I don't know if Google is showing me a link to one of my T-shirt blogs because it's mine or in anyone will find my link while searching for Lovecraft online. This was the last result on the first page of the Google search:

T-SHIRT #339 - DEAD CAN DANCE

This page included links to and pictures for a Lovecraft-inspired comic strip I like called Cthulu Slippers (see below). It included my fascination with Lovecraft-themed podcast WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE, and several other things, including the main content devoted to DEAD CAN DANCE.

AND RACISM.

Do we forgive authors and artists for being products of their time? Not that everyone in Lovecraft's time was racist, hardly. Not that racism is a thing of the past today, certainly not. But it's best to have perspective, right?

The Salon published this article in 2014 about how fans need to find a "mature way to cope with ugly sides of authors who they love -- It's Okay to Admit that H.P. Lovecraft was Racist.

There was a flap about whether to honor Lovecraft now in Fantasy awards and Halls of Fame because of his venomous and open racism in his stories, letters, and essays.

Since 2014, just published last month, author Victor LaValle tackles Lovecraft's racism in a novella called The Ballad of Black Tom. There's a good article about it here at THE SLATE: a THRILLING STORY DIGS INTO RACISM IN H.P. LOVECRAFT'S WORK and a link to buy the novella.

Does Lovecraft's racism negate his contributions to literature? Should he be a forgotten author, overlooked and neglected, because of his racism? I don't think so.

This same issues is one I delayed writing about in my T-shirt blog in regards to Orson Scott Card's vocal opposition to gay marriage and the planned boycott of the release of the movie Ender's Game, adapted from his novel of the same name. Once the Supreme Court ruled on gay marriage, the issue became moot, and Card said as much on his blog.

Should I stop reading Orson Scott Card because he holds views that I oppose? Some of my gay friends think so. I have several gay friends who have stopped reading his work and will not support him in anyway. And yet, Card is one of the least hateful opponents of gay marriage and all gay issues (opposing the very existence of gay people on religious grounds) that I have seen. I disagree with him, but he is not hateful or vicious or ignorant in his views.

First off, boycotting the movie Ender's Game would hurt a lot of people who don't agree with Card either. The movie is bigger than one man and affects the livelihood of many.

Secondly, would my boycott of Card's books hurt him at all? Granted, I have purchased every single one of his novels. In some cases I have two copies, hard back and paper back. Even so, is Card's bank account much affected by my purchases? Hardly.

Lastly, he is one of my favorite authors. I have loved his work for years and read most everything he has written, certainly, all the Ender books. A boycott of his work is going to hurt me much more than it will hurt him. And unlike Lovecraft whose glaringly racism is evident in his stories, Card does not use his fiction as a vehicle to pander his religious views at all. Sure, there are underlying themes. Yes, there are no gay characters in his stories, but there's also no dogmatic bigotry either.

And what of all the other authors I read? Outside of authors like John Scalzi who regularly writes about his various political, religious, and ethical views on his blog, I do not know the opinions of other authors outside of what they share  in their fiction or the occasional interview. The Internet has made it easier for authors to share views with the world, but this is no reason to decide their merits as writers SOLELY on whether I disagree with their stands on various issues. Certainly if someone is a hateful bigot and very vocal about being a hateful bigot, I am not going to be interested in that writer's work. But Orson Scott Card is not a hateful bigot, he just holds religious views that I do not agree with, much like most of the rest of the population of the world. I would guess that fewer than one percent of the world's population holds views much like my own.

So, Lovecraft gets a pass. His work is important. His racism is well known, and it has been well known, but if we dismiss the artists of the pass for hateful views, many great artists are going to be dismissed, possibly including Shakespeare. Is that the world we want to live in?

Besides, isn't forgiveness the single greatest act a human being can perform? Aren't we here to be accepting rather than discriminatory and judgmental?

After all, we cannot defeat hateful bigotry with hateful bigotry.

As a friend of mine recently told me, "be heart-centered. Practice radially acceptance."





Lost HP Lovecraft work commissioned by Houdini escapes shackles of history


A long-lost manuscript by HP Lovecraft, an investigation of superstition through the ages that the author was commissioned to write by Harry Houdini, has been found in a collection of magic memorabilia.
The Cancer of Superstition was previously known only in outline and through its first chapter. Houdini had asked Lovecraft in 1926 to ghostwrite the treatise exploring superstition, but the magician’s death later that year halted the project, as his wife did not wish to pursue it.
According to Potter & Potter Auctions of Chicago, the 31-page typewritten manuscript was discovered in a large collection of memorabilia from a now-defunct magic shop. Part of the collection consisted of papers kept by Houdini’s widow, Beatrice, and her manager, Edward Saint.

The Lovecraft typescript commissioned by Houdini.
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 The Lovecraft typescript commissioned by Houdini. Photograph: David Linsell

“The collection bounced around after Beatrice Houdini’s death in 1943 and was never truly catalogued or ‘mined’ in all that time. The papers were never researched or inventoried,” said Potter & Potter president Gabe Fajuri. “In all that time, no one seemed to realise the significance of the manuscript.”
Fajuri said the collection was recently bought privately, and when “the new owner began sorting through the mountain of paperwork, he began putting the pieces together, and in the process discovered the manuscript and its significance”.


The Chicago firm, which will auction the manuscript on 9 April, says it is “further along than other surviving sources have indicated it had reached”, with three sections entitled “The Genesis of Superstition”, “The Expansion of Superstition”, and “The Fallacy of Superstition”.
According to the auction house – which will open bids at $13,000 (£9,240) with a pre-auction estimate expecting a final price somewhere between $25,000-$40,000 – the document explores everything from worship of the dead to werewolves and cannibalism, theorising that superstition is an “inborn inclination” that “persists only through mental indolence of those who reject modern science”.
“Most of us are heathens in the innermost recesses of our hearts,” it concludes.
Fine Books Magazine, which first highlighted the auction, said the manuscript had been “whispered about by hopeful collectors and scholars for decades”.
Fajuri said: “The manuscript deepens the debate over the legacies of two figures whose popularity rested on playing to both sides of their audience’s curiosity over issues including spiritualism, supernaturalism, the real and the unreal,”
He added:“While Lovecraft entertained readers with weird and horrific science fiction and Houdini amazed audiences with displays of superhuman escapes, both are to be found here in what they call a ‘campaign’ against superstition. They argue that all superstitious beliefs are relics of a common ‘prehistoric ignorance’ in humans.”
According to Lovecraft scholar ST Joshi, the manuscript was actually commissioned for Lovecraft and his fellow author CM Eddy. Joshi said that a synopsis of the book, along with one chapter, The Genesis of Superstition, was published in the 1966 book The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces.
“But it is stated there that, while the synopsis was written by Lovecraft, the chapters themselves were written by Eddy, with ‘Lovecraft’s interlinear emendations and additions’. August Derleth, who assembled the volume, was in touch with Eddy, so presumably he derived this information directly from Eddy,” said Joshi.
He added: “It appears that not all the chapters embodied in the newly discovered manuscript were published in The Dark Brotherhood,” which contained only The Genesis of Superstition. “Assuming the manuscript contains more than this chapter, then those subsequent chapters are unpublished. But they still seem to be by Eddy, not by Lovecraft,” said Joshi.





Since I just wrote about the Lovecraftian inspired WELCOME TO NIGHTVALE, I also wanted to promote another Lovecraft influenced art thing I recently discovered: CTHULU SLIPPERS.

I must confess that Lovecraft is one of those authors at which I have taken several runs but have not fully invested. I have read a few stories, started and failed to finish others, but also I have not really applied myself. I am determined to rectify this oversight. It's time for some LOVECRAFTIAN absorption.

This comic, CTHULU SLIPPERS, is a very divertisement. Updates every Monday. Here's the latest reprinted without permission. I am sure creators Andrew Jack and Natalie Metzger would not mind. I am spreading the good word of the great work. ENJOY.

It's really good stuff.
Trust me.
I'm a doctor.







Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.


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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1603.30 - 9:04


NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The Daily Bowie #56 - "Criminal World"


The Daily Bowie #56 - "Criminal World"


You were the widow of a wild cat
And now I know about your special kisses

"Criminal World" is a song that David Bowie covered on the 1983 album Let's Dance and was written by Duncan Browne, Peter Godwin and Sean Lyons of the band Metro. They released it on their debut album in 1977.

PUSHING AHEAD OF THE DAME on the subject of "Criminal World."

The Pushing Ahead of the Dame entry for this song is a great piece to read on Bowie's recanting of admission of being gay and/or bi-sexual (an admission he made in 1972) in 1983 in the rise of his stardom, which many in the gay community took as a huge betrayal at a bad time for the gay community with the rise of AIDS, which brought a great deal of irrational fear and ignorance down on the gay community. Here's an excerpt:

So Bowie, a man who once worn dresses on his LP covers, who once sang to a cross-dressing kid “hey babe, your hair’s alright,” now seemed to repudiate a culture that had once revered him, and at its bleakest hour. As I’ve written before (see the “John” entry), Bowie apparently wasn’t gay, rather being a mild bisexual who exclusively chose women for long-term relationships. As early as the Young Americans era, he had stopped playing, as the Melody Maker described him in 1972, a gorgeously effeminate boy…camp as a row of tents, with his limp hand and trolling vocabulary. And as I’ve said before, I don’t care to delve into the gossip of who he slept with.
But what did Bowie owe to gay men? He had trafficked in their culture, had pretended (even claimed) to be one for several years, and gays had been some of his oldest and most loyal fans. Had he just always been an opportunist—and, to bluntly put it, being gay in 1983 was no longer “cool,” but rather something to be avoided?
For Bowie, it was a cold, commercial decision. He felt that he had been defined in America for his entire career as a bisexual first, artist second. In 2002, he told Blender: “America is a very puritanical place, and I think [being known as a bisexual] stood in the way of what I wanted to do…I had no inclination to hold any banners or to be a representative of any type of people.” Camille Paglia, interviewed by Marc Spitz for his Bowie bio, agreed: “Bowie, in my view, had no obligation to say “I’m gay.” His obligation is only to his imagination. It’s the extreme view but I think, quite frankly, it’s the authentically gay view.”

"Criminal World" - LET'S DANCE - 1983





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"Criminal World"

You never told me of your other faces
You were the widow of a wild cat
And now I know about your special kisses
And I know you know where that's at
I guess I recognize your destination
I think I see beneath your make-up
What you want is sort of separation
This is no ordinary
This is no ordinary
(ah, ah, ah)
What a criminal world
The boys are like baby-faced girls
What a criminal girl
She'll show you where to shoot your gun
What a typical mother's son
The only thing that she enjoys
Is a criminal worl
Where the girls are like baby-faced boys

You've got a very heavy reputation
But no one knows about your low-life
I know a way
to find a situation 
And hold a candle 
to your high life disguise
You caught me kneeling 
at your sister's door
That was no ordinary stick-up
I'm well aware just 
what you're looking for
I am no ordinary
I am no ordinary
(ah, ah, ah)
What a criminal world
The boys are like baby-faced girls
What a criminal girl
She'll show you where to shoot your gun
What a typical mother's son
The only thing that she enjoys
Is a criminal world
Where the girls are like baby-faced boys


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Rest in peace, David. We miss you.

- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1603.29 - 9:01

NOTE ON WHY THE DAILY BOWIE IS NO LONGER DAILY: For 53 days, I completed daily Bowie posts. My schedule is too demanding to make a post every day, so this will now be a feature that is called The Daily Bowie, but it will not be daily. I will post as I can. I will post often. But if I miss a day, I will skip it. Otherwise, I get in the position of making five Bowie posts all in one day, and that's a lot of Bowie for people to swallow all at once... (yeah, leaving that badly phrased, innuendo packed statement. I bet Bowie would have laughed at it).

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #266 - February & March Class Notes - LS 1040

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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #266 - February Class Notes - LS 1040

Hi Mom, I want to show you some pictures.

I know this is probably more interesting to me than to anyone else, though you are always interested in what I am doing, Mom.

These are the wipe boards from most of my classes this term. I am missing a few, but most are here.

Not too exciting I know. But if nothing else, this is a nice archive of some of the content in the WORLD OF IDEAS in which I try to immerse my students. Plus it helps me remember what music I have shared with them, which is an extra thing that I forget to write down.

Dates are written as year (16), month (01 is January) and date, after the dot = 1601.24 is January 24th, 2016 and then the hyphen with number indicates page one or two or three.

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Reflect and connect.

Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.

Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.


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