Category Archives: B.S.

The 12 Days of Christmas

I give up trying to embed this. Go here and watch it - you’ll be glad you did.

The wedding gig

I’m pretty sure I played this gig once. At least. Read the response below the fold.
Dear Mr. Bandleader,
My wife and I look forward to you providing music at our daughter’s wedding. We have a list of songs we would like you to play. Don’t worry if you don’t know all of them. Any Chick Corea […]

I said, “Merry Christmas!”

Sent to me from a family member, but worth posting here:
Twas the month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
Why the Politically Correct Police had taken away,
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.
The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About Shepherds and Wise Men and […]

The CNN Dream Debate

Republican debate, naturally.
“I should note that Jesus wasn’t explicit on everything,” Huckabee said. “Like He never said anything about eating pie, and I sure love my pie. Mmm… pie.
Mmm…pie.
Fred Thompson pointed at the screen. “I want to beat up that sissy. Actually, if I am elected president, I promise to beat that sissy John Edwards.”
“I […]

Merry Christmas

Say “Merry Christmas” in America anymore? Blake has another opinion.

Mr. Bob is home!

Drop by and welcome him back.

Quote of the day

He’s never been First Lady.

By default, if you work with me, are related to me, or even know me you’re automatically a geek (you’re welcome). Some of you might qualify for dork, but that usually requires spending a lot of time with me in person. As all good geek/dorks know, you need to be prepared for Thanksgiving. Somebody is bound to […]

No mo ho ho ho?

May I suggest that if Santa Claus’ annual “ho, ho, ho” could potentially be derogatory to women, the problem isn’t with Santa Claus.

Word of the Day?

Wienerism

Never too old

I hope we never get too old to think that this is commonplace.
Look, an astronaut shooting into space is cool all by itself, right? What about a space walk? Cool. What about an outside-the-spacestation repair? COOL.
Astronauts successfully unfurled a torn solar power wing at the international space station on Saturday after spacewalker Scott Parazynski cut […]

Amy says post, or she’ll change political parties. Well then….

Fine. Here’s a post.
Back to back concerts in subsequent weeks. I’m crazy busy the 2 weeks before a concert anyway but when they get packed in tight like that it’s exponentially worse. All went well - got to play extremes of classical music. One week was all chamber music, where I played a delicate piccolo […]

Snow

As a kid growing up in Colorado it seemed to me that it snowed every Halloween. I know it didn’t, but that’s the prevailing memory I have - trick or treating in boots. 30 years later, some things haven’t changed. There will be snow on Halloween this year - at least at Arapahoe Basin, which […]

Who is really behind the war?

Follow the money. It’s obvious now that I think about it. Well, I mean after somebody else thought of it then I read it when I should have been working.

schadendouche?

I’m just crazy busy. The Symphony season kicks off Saturday with a fundraiser, and my day job just went through a major reorg. That being said, there’s no reason I can’t find time to share a new word with you, right?