Ancient Sounds

' P lease, take one of mine," said he, 'for I do not need two.' I wondered why I made this strange cartoon, but the...

T he New York Times may be one of the best sources of intelligent news and info, but today they proved they can also be the "All the ne...

I ‘ve been looking for Mary Well’s version of Ferry Cross the Mersey . for some years now.  But with no luck and so I wrote yesterday to he...

Years ago, when I lived in Brooklyn, there was a hugh sign I would pass traveling on the BQE.  In the daylight it said Bruno Truck Sales . ...

  On our trip to Vermont, my son and came across several sections where roadwork was being done.    Each time there was a sign warni...

We had an old stove that came with the apartment.  After many years we got a new one.  A restaurant quality Viking.  The old, cheap one had ...

It might be best to never spilt infinitives; unless you, like Emily Dickinson or Dylan Thomas, breathe and live the craft of words, and t...

M aurice Sendak's 85th birthday anniversary was celebrated today by a Google animation. And it falls on the last day my son, Sa...

Click on a picture to go to beautifully visualized music.  Everyone should see these at least once in their lives.  Switch to HD qu...

I created this rocket and animated it on my other homepage. Click these words to liftoff and go there.  I guess we boys never stop wanting...

Italians used to follow Lee Trevino around the golf course and cheer for him as he played. Great player who won 29 PGA titles and 21 more ...

See the NYT article, click here. I nteresting, sad newspaper article.  (Be sure to read it by clicking the above link.)  I w...

Jewel encrusted cars, including a Rolls Royce; this diamond and sapphire watch (above) , his piano shaped swimming pool with black and...

I got my fifteen minutes of fame over these past two weeks.  (Hey! I referenced Warhol in the last post too.)  Well,...

The beautiful Muriel Rukeyser quote from her The Speed of Darkness , so true, has now become so well known that it's a cliche'. Bu...

A fter a performance, someone came up to the pianist and asked what he meant by his interpretation of that Beethoven sonata.  The pianist ...

Part One I t's not that the male's brain is simpler.  He just wants to reduce everything to its essence, then go from...

P eople misunderstand what causes problems in the hands.  It is not the repetition of hitting the computer or piano keys.  If you do it ri...