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“I’ll be damned.”
So, I got to the concert tonight. Neither of the 2 regular tubists were there. I alerted the conductor of this. She asked if I had all the parts and was comfortable. I wuz.
So, the show went on...
I’ll Edmit I wasn’t perfect but I wuz darn gud.
Lee would have been proud of me.
So, I got to the concert tonight. Neither of the 2 regular tubists were there. I alerted the conductor of this. She asked if I had all the parts and was comfortable. I wuz.
So, the show went on...
I’ll Edmit I wasn’t perfect but I wuz darn gud.
Lee would have been proud of me.
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“I’ll be damned.”
So, I got to the concert tonight. Neither of the 2 regular tubists were there. I alerted the conductor of this. She asked if I had all the parts and was comfortable. I wuz.
So, the show went on...
I’ll Edmit I wasn’t perfect but I wuz darn gud.
Lee would have been proud of me.
So, I got to the concert tonight. Neither of the 2 regular tubists were there. I alerted the conductor of this. She asked if I had all the parts and was comfortable. I wuz.
So, the show went on...
I’ll Edmit I wasn’t perfect but I wuz darn gud.
Lee would have been proud of me.
For FOEs local to Clar/Jeff/Clear-Co, I'm subbing tonight with the DuBois Area Community Band in DuBois, PA.
Guests are welcome.
See attached poster
Guests are welcome.
See attached poster
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For FOEs local to Clar/Jeff/Clear-Co, I'm subbing tonight with the DuBois Area Community Band in DuBois, PA.
Guests are welcome.
See attached poster
Guests are welcome.
See attached poster
Geesus Eddie, what, are you auditioning for a walk-on spot in Hallmark Holiday Tearjerk or "It's a Winter Wonderland"?
It ain't Shanghai (yet) but the mostly flat sidewalks were slippery enuff.
Izzu one of the few or many FOEs who think I'm "f'n nutz?" Well, izzu iz or iz youn's ain't?
It ain't Shanghai (yet) but the mostly flat sidewalks were slippery enuff.
Izzu one of the few or many FOEs who think I'm "f'n nutz?" Well, izzu iz or iz youn's ain't?
December 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Geesus Eddie, what, are you auditioning for a walk-on spot in Hallmark Holiday Tearjerk or "It's a Winter Wonderland"?
It ain't Shanghai (yet) but the mostly flat sidewalks were slippery enuff.
Izzu one of the few or many FOEs who think I'm "f'n nutz?" Well, izzu iz or iz youn's ain't?
It ain't Shanghai (yet) but the mostly flat sidewalks were slippery enuff.
Izzu one of the few or many FOEs who think I'm "f'n nutz?" Well, izzu iz or iz youn's ain't?
“I took a contract...”
DuBois Area Community Band Christmas Concert
Dec. 15, 6:30 pm
DuBois Village Personal Care Community
282 S. 8th St.
DuBois PA
I’ll be playing my ’Big Red Bass” on Tuba parts.
I asked and guests are welcome...
“...I doubt that; I doubt that very much.” IYKYK
DuBois Area Community Band Christmas Concert
Dec. 15, 6:30 pm
DuBois Village Personal Care Community
282 S. 8th St.
DuBois PA
I’ll be playing my ’Big Red Bass” on Tuba parts.
I asked and guests are welcome...
“...I doubt that; I doubt that very much.” IYKYK
December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
“I took a contract...”
DuBois Area Community Band Christmas Concert
Dec. 15, 6:30 pm
DuBois Village Personal Care Community
282 S. 8th St.
DuBois PA
I’ll be playing my ’Big Red Bass” on Tuba parts.
I asked and guests are welcome...
“...I doubt that; I doubt that very much.” IYKYK
DuBois Area Community Band Christmas Concert
Dec. 15, 6:30 pm
DuBois Village Personal Care Community
282 S. 8th St.
DuBois PA
I’ll be playing my ’Big Red Bass” on Tuba parts.
I asked and guests are welcome...
“...I doubt that; I doubt that very much.” IYKYK
Yesterday's bottling of this year's grape harvest (Niagara from my Dad's and LaCrosse, a modern table grape) plus some tomato wine.
Note the ceremonial wine goblet...
Note the ceremonial wine goblet...
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Yesterday's bottling of this year's grape harvest (Niagara from my Dad's and LaCrosse, a modern table grape) plus some tomato wine.
Note the ceremonial wine goblet...
Note the ceremonial wine goblet...
Merry Kristmas from the Hard-Working Hardware Kitty!
Note the seasonal blanket atop the previously slept-on blanket.
Note the seasonal blanket atop the previously slept-on blanket.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Merry Kristmas from the Hard-Working Hardware Kitty!
Note the seasonal blanket atop the previously slept-on blanket.
Note the seasonal blanket atop the previously slept-on blanket.
Yesterday's Part 2 of my double-Eder. An annual pre-Thanksgiving gig with the Sounds of Stow Chorus and Orchestra.
Lennie, what were you thinking? 9/4 & 10/4?
Lennie, what were you thinking? 9/4 & 10/4?
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Yesterday's Part 2 of my double-Eder. An annual pre-Thanksgiving gig with the Sounds of Stow Chorus and Orchestra.
Lennie, what were you thinking? 9/4 & 10/4?
Lennie, what were you thinking? 9/4 & 10/4?
Part 1 of an uncommon double-Eder, with an even rarer occurence of a gig in Boston, 1st time in decades.
At MIT with a pickup orchestra backing an MIT chorus in a new hall
Keyboard & Ed’s bass pic: “Now there’s a pair to pluck to.”
Ed’s self-titled selfie: “Flint Meets Papa Haydn”
At MIT with a pickup orchestra backing an MIT chorus in a new hall
Keyboard & Ed’s bass pic: “Now there’s a pair to pluck to.”
Ed’s self-titled selfie: “Flint Meets Papa Haydn”
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Part 1 of an uncommon double-Eder, with an even rarer occurence of a gig in Boston, 1st time in decades.
At MIT with a pickup orchestra backing an MIT chorus in a new hall
Keyboard & Ed’s bass pic: “Now there’s a pair to pluck to.”
Ed’s self-titled selfie: “Flint Meets Papa Haydn”
At MIT with a pickup orchestra backing an MIT chorus in a new hall
Keyboard & Ed’s bass pic: “Now there’s a pair to pluck to.”
Ed’s self-titled selfie: “Flint Meets Papa Haydn”
Subbed in a big band Thursday night. They were rehearsing for a holiday concert. One of the numbers was this.
After the song, I asked the trumpet section, "Did any of you hear James Darren / Jack Jones singing this on the "Boat of Love"?
Are you? If' so, "gimme a Hell Yeah!"
After the song, I asked the trumpet section, "Did any of you hear James Darren / Jack Jones singing this on the "Boat of Love"?
Are you? If' so, "gimme a Hell Yeah!"
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Subbed in a big band Thursday night. They were rehearsing for a holiday concert. One of the numbers was this.
After the song, I asked the trumpet section, "Did any of you hear James Darren / Jack Jones singing this on the "Boat of Love"?
Are you? If' so, "gimme a Hell Yeah!"
After the song, I asked the trumpet section, "Did any of you hear James Darren / Jack Jones singing this on the "Boat of Love"?
Are you? If' so, "gimme a Hell Yeah!"
2 office visits this weekend:
gig in Boston.
MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus with an orchestra. Performing:
Songs of the Earth - Ruehr
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=csA6...
Paukenmesse - (Papa) Haydn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvLO...
Saturday, Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT 8 pm
gig in Boston.
MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus with an orchestra. Performing:
Songs of the Earth - Ruehr
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=csA6...
Paukenmesse - (Papa) Haydn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvLO...
Saturday, Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT 8 pm
World Premiere | Ruehr: Songs of the Earth | Emmanuel Music Boston
YouTube video by Emmanuel Music
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
2 office visits this weekend:
gig in Boston.
MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus with an orchestra. Performing:
Songs of the Earth - Ruehr
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=csA6...
Paukenmesse - (Papa) Haydn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvLO...
Saturday, Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT 8 pm
gig in Boston.
MIT Concert Choir and Chamber Chorus with an orchestra. Performing:
Songs of the Earth - Ruehr
YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=csA6...
Paukenmesse - (Papa) Haydn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvLO...
Saturday, Thomas Tull Concert Hall at MIT 8 pm
I took my trusty reliable picture tube tv up to the recycle/landfill.
Watched and taped a lotta quality tv shows on that tube:
The Legendary Journeys of Hercules
Xena, Warrior Princess
Charmed
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World
Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda
WCW Monday Night Nitro
Watched and taped a lotta quality tv shows on that tube:
The Legendary Journeys of Hercules
Xena, Warrior Princess
Charmed
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World
Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda
WCW Monday Night Nitro
November 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I took my trusty reliable picture tube tv up to the recycle/landfill.
Watched and taped a lotta quality tv shows on that tube:
The Legendary Journeys of Hercules
Xena, Warrior Princess
Charmed
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World
Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda
WCW Monday Night Nitro
Watched and taped a lotta quality tv shows on that tube:
The Legendary Journeys of Hercules
Xena, Warrior Princess
Charmed
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World
Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda
WCW Monday Night Nitro
A rare daytime sighting of the "Hardest Working Cat in the Hardware Biz" doing some security patrols.
In the pics where Oreo is looking at me, she's really looking at the Asst. Mgr. who keeps a small bag of cat treats by the checkout counter. She has the Mgr. well-trained...
In the pics where Oreo is looking at me, she's really looking at the Asst. Mgr. who keeps a small bag of cat treats by the checkout counter. She has the Mgr. well-trained...
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A rare daytime sighting of the "Hardest Working Cat in the Hardware Biz" doing some security patrols.
In the pics where Oreo is looking at me, she's really looking at the Asst. Mgr. who keeps a small bag of cat treats by the checkout counter. She has the Mgr. well-trained...
In the pics where Oreo is looking at me, she's really looking at the Asst. Mgr. who keeps a small bag of cat treats by the checkout counter. She has the Mgr. well-trained...
Saw a news report recently about a new “social disease”:
Doomscrolling
My take is if you have stress / anxiety about who unfriended you recently, unfriend me now. You’re way too needy to be part of my world.
Doomscrolling
My take is if you have stress / anxiety about who unfriended you recently, unfriend me now. You’re way too needy to be part of my world.
November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Saw a news report recently about a new “social disease”:
Doomscrolling
My take is if you have stress / anxiety about who unfriended you recently, unfriend me now. You’re way too needy to be part of my world.
Doomscrolling
My take is if you have stress / anxiety about who unfriended you recently, unfriend me now. You’re way too needy to be part of my world.
"He took a contract. That's just the kind of contract you have to keep."
November 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"He took a contract. That's just the kind of contract you have to keep."
Tis the season! IYKYK
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Tis the season! IYKYK
The one concert day of the year when at least 2 musicians I know will be early to the gig...
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The one concert day of the year when at least 2 musicians I know will be early to the gig...
Where’s my comic book curmudgeon card???
Seen this morn on a Boston news station where a local hospital dressed babies up for Halloween.
See Exhibit S:
This offends me. Superman didn’t wear a mask! How izzit that someone can so violate history...
“This makes me so angry...” IYKYK
Seen this morn on a Boston news station where a local hospital dressed babies up for Halloween.
See Exhibit S:
This offends me. Superman didn’t wear a mask! How izzit that someone can so violate history...
“This makes me so angry...” IYKYK
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Where’s my comic book curmudgeon card???
Seen this morn on a Boston news station where a local hospital dressed babies up for Halloween.
See Exhibit S:
This offends me. Superman didn’t wear a mask! How izzit that someone can so violate history...
“This makes me so angry...” IYKYK
Seen this morn on a Boston news station where a local hospital dressed babies up for Halloween.
See Exhibit S:
This offends me. Superman didn’t wear a mask! How izzit that someone can so violate history...
“This makes me so angry...” IYKYK
This Sunday's 'contract'. "That's just the kind you have to honor."
October 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This Sunday's 'contract'. "That's just the kind you have to honor."
Recently, I got dubbed “The Obsolete Man”
Picked this up at a state Visitor’s Center last week. I have no knobs to hang this from. Everything is flush and/or touch-pad tech. Did the designers of this travel bag thought about modern cars?
Note the misspelling. What were they thinking!?
Picked this up at a state Visitor’s Center last week. I have no knobs to hang this from. Everything is flush and/or touch-pad tech. Did the designers of this travel bag thought about modern cars?
Note the misspelling. What were they thinking!?
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Recently, I got dubbed “The Obsolete Man”
Picked this up at a state Visitor’s Center last week. I have no knobs to hang this from. Everything is flush and/or touch-pad tech. Did the designers of this travel bag thought about modern cars?
Note the misspelling. What were they thinking!?
Picked this up at a state Visitor’s Center last week. I have no knobs to hang this from. Everything is flush and/or touch-pad tech. Did the designers of this travel bag thought about modern cars?
Note the misspelling. What were they thinking!?
Started working on some licks for Capriccio Italienne. Had an Edpiphany. There are some runs in the Capriccio that I just can't play. Doubt I ever will!
"They're too darn fast!" I'm gonna play the downbeats which form a triad of various types.
Note the tempo for the 8th notes!
"They're too darn fast!" I'm gonna play the downbeats which form a triad of various types.
Note the tempo for the 8th notes!
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Started working on some licks for Capriccio Italienne. Had an Edpiphany. There are some runs in the Capriccio that I just can't play. Doubt I ever will!
"They're too darn fast!" I'm gonna play the downbeats which form a triad of various types.
Note the tempo for the 8th notes!
"They're too darn fast!" I'm gonna play the downbeats which form a triad of various types.
Note the tempo for the 8th notes!
"Holy Bela Day, Batman!"
On his birthday, we’d like to remember actor Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956).
If'n you know who he was, we can be friends.
On his birthday, we’d like to remember actor Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956).
If'n you know who he was, we can be friends.
October 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Holy Bela Day, Batman!"
On his birthday, we’d like to remember actor Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956).
If'n you know who he was, we can be friends.
On his birthday, we’d like to remember actor Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 – August 16, 1956).
If'n you know who he was, we can be friends.
Cue “This is funny.”
“And I am... Obsolete Man.”
For years, I have viewed myself azza anachronism.
Now, a friend/carpenter who did work on my house insisted on giving me a 33” wide-screen tv, an extra he had.
I am the modern-day equivalent of Romney Wordsworth. IYKYK
“And I am... Obsolete Man.”
For years, I have viewed myself azza anachronism.
Now, a friend/carpenter who did work on my house insisted on giving me a 33” wide-screen tv, an extra he had.
I am the modern-day equivalent of Romney Wordsworth. IYKYK
October 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Cue “This is funny.”
“And I am... Obsolete Man.”
For years, I have viewed myself azza anachronism.
Now, a friend/carpenter who did work on my house insisted on giving me a 33” wide-screen tv, an extra he had.
I am the modern-day equivalent of Romney Wordsworth. IYKYK
“And I am... Obsolete Man.”
For years, I have viewed myself azza anachronism.
Now, a friend/carpenter who did work on my house insisted on giving me a 33” wide-screen tv, an extra he had.
I am the modern-day equivalent of Romney Wordsworth. IYKYK
How izzit it took me this long to play this 20th century standard?
October 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
How izzit it took me this long to play this 20th century standard?
1 of n:
My hs music teachers, Ms. Trzeziak, Ms. Hopper, Mr. T, Mr. Reid, & Mr Neuhard would be very surprised to see me still playing music actively at this point in my life. Nor I
I’m bemused that yesterday was a Shostakovich double-Eder! Symphony No. 5 and rehearsing his Symphony No. 12!
My hs music teachers, Ms. Trzeziak, Ms. Hopper, Mr. T, Mr. Reid, & Mr Neuhard would be very surprised to see me still playing music actively at this point in my life. Nor I
I’m bemused that yesterday was a Shostakovich double-Eder! Symphony No. 5 and rehearsing his Symphony No. 12!
September 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
1 of n:
My hs music teachers, Ms. Trzeziak, Ms. Hopper, Mr. T, Mr. Reid, & Mr Neuhard would be very surprised to see me still playing music actively at this point in my life. Nor I
I’m bemused that yesterday was a Shostakovich double-Eder! Symphony No. 5 and rehearsing his Symphony No. 12!
My hs music teachers, Ms. Trzeziak, Ms. Hopper, Mr. T, Mr. Reid, & Mr Neuhard would be very surprised to see me still playing music actively at this point in my life. Nor I
I’m bemused that yesterday was a Shostakovich double-Eder! Symphony No. 5 and rehearsing his Symphony No. 12!
to b flat or not 3 of n
He checks his conductor’s score and tellss me it should be a B natural and will remind us tomorrow.
My final quip is "What does say about a fellow's ears if he picks up a disc(h) in a Shostakovich Symphony. Him, "I'd say that's a very good thing" again with the eye twinkle.
He checks his conductor’s score and tellss me it should be a B natural and will remind us tomorrow.
My final quip is "What does say about a fellow's ears if he picks up a disc(h) in a Shostakovich Symphony. Him, "I'd say that's a very good thing" again with the eye twinkle.
September 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
to b flat or not 3 of n
He checks his conductor’s score and tellss me it should be a B natural and will remind us tomorrow.
My final quip is "What does say about a fellow's ears if he picks up a disc(h) in a Shostakovich Symphony. Him, "I'd say that's a very good thing" again with the eye twinkle.
He checks his conductor’s score and tellss me it should be a B natural and will remind us tomorrow.
My final quip is "What does say about a fellow's ears if he picks up a disc(h) in a Shostakovich Symphony. Him, "I'd say that's a very good thing" again with the eye twinkle.