Tie tying exasperation

 

 

The Eldredge knot……finally, an addition to the boring Full Windsor and the cooler Half Windsor and the casual Four-in-hand.….Lots of work to master, but…. a new "artsy" look, anyway……. Try it!

The Lonely Wizard by Rildrim

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY.......

Democratic talent from the White House..........   

Töltött káposzta, Gundel palacsinta & Stockhausen

In college, I was asked by my best friend, Bert Bottorff, to host a radio program after his "Baroque Hour" on WRVU, the campus radio station......I had recently discovered the NONESUCH contemporary music recordings and was eager to acquire avante guarde recordings......costly for a college student......Bert informed me that, as a programmer of music for our college station, I could purchase just about every available recording in the Schwann Catalogue for $2/ea......That did it! My taste for grand, Romantic music......Polenc, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Lizst and Thaikovski was supplanted by a fashionable interest in Varese, Stockhausen, Cage and Subotnik.......Students would call during my program, to complain about all the rubbish and noise that I was piping to their dorms late at night......Bert's program, which preceded my hour, was so conservative that it's audiences were startled, angry birds when my more abrasive material followed........Stockhausen was especially despised!......ten years later, I had moved into the "real" world and worked as a dancing, singing artist/waiter at a Hungarian restaurant that offered diverse live music to accompany diners.....The Atlanta Boy's Choir serenaded in the courtyard with its pleasantly unchanged voices, as patrons gobbled Veal Paprikash......Cathy Baker and Robert Ray belting out Broadway tunes.....and Judy Beattie, supposedly hired to play muzacky harp music.......Before opening one Saturday evening, I heard some strange music from the bar, where another friend, Timmie Silver bartendered.......Judy doing improvisational Stockhausen........Sure to be a big hit with diners....yeah, sure!..........The Restaurant, decorated like a Hungarian Gypsy caravan cabin, incidentally, was short lived.......The current restaurant, built upon the ashes of our Hungarian Art Restaurant, is yet one more trendy meat and potatoes snore.....and subscribes to programmed music....like my dentist's office!

1930-S 25C PCGS MS67FH Standing Liberty Quarter Dollar Type 2

My Grandfather once told me to "Always Check your change!"........Having followed his wise advice, I was delighted to receive this quarter in change from my $10 payment to the electronic scan and pay device @ Kroger's........ Not to mention   the 1921 Silver Dollar that I found, for $2, within an old leather change purse  that I purchased at an antique store in Venice, Italy.. on my grand tour of Europe in 1972!

Fashion Balls.........C'mon Christian!

I was there yesterday!.....so denim overalls
will rule the thrifts tomorrow......




    Beginning of a Journey by Yumi Kurosawa

The Graham Norton Show - Are Brit talks shows more open than Yank shows?

just head to 3m30sec into it.....