Mike Heffley
@mikeheffley.bsky.social
Musician, scholar, semi-retired educator reading/writing/musicking to heart's content, father
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Borah Bergman: The Long Look
Published in an abridged version in Signal to Noise magazine (july/august 2000), this piece on the pianist is a fun read informed by doses of close, substantial scholarship. It is again timely, as Bor...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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"As a Cold War kid, I grew up in tense times...The times were dangerous, but there was also more stability than I could perceive. The result is that I learned to approach the problems of the moment with determination, not despair. Problems are real, but hope endures."
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Opinion | What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral
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December 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"As a Cold War kid, I grew up in tense times...The times were dangerous, but there was also more stability than I could perceive. The result is that I learned to approach the problems of the moment with determination, not despair. Problems are real, but hope endures."
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The king who would be man. soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/g...
Good King Wenceslas (Trad.)
See https://mikeheffley1.bandcamp.com/album/winter-holiday-folies-in-2020-houndsight if you prefer to pay for your music.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The king who would be man. soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/g...
This is the money line that sums up all of HCR's work and that of all who prove it true--from 1776 to now and to come:
"Progressivism is as deeply rooted in American history as reaction."
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"Progressivism is as deeply rooted in American history as reaction."
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December 12, 2025
Today former Alabama senator Doug Jones launched his campaign to become the state’s next governor.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is the money line that sums up all of HCR's work and that of all who prove it true--from 1776 to now and to come:
"Progressivism is as deeply rooted in American history as reaction."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"Progressivism is as deeply rooted in American history as reaction."
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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Three Flowers 1 (McCoy Tyner)
McCoy on
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December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Love Came On Stealthy Fingers (Bob Dorough)
Amusicosm is my Facebook-cum-Bandcamp site for my recorded music--now undergoing reconception reconstruction. More later, soon...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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It's here? like, now? Show me! soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/c...
Christmas Time is Here (Vince Guaraldi, Lee Mendelson)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Time_Is_Here
Drawing in cover by Panajota Tserkesi http://www.tserkesi.de/
I haven't had this much fun playing my Christmas favorites on the keyboard sin
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December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
It's here? like, now? Show me! soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/c...
Hush now...and then...and later. soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/s...
Stille Nacht 1 (Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night
Drawing in cover by Panajota Tserkesi http://www.tserkesi.de/
I haven't had this much fun playing my Christmas favorites on the keyboard since ever! T
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December 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hush now...and then...and later. soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/s...
A guy can still (if only) dream. Knock on wood... soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/w...
White Christmas 2 (Irving Berlin)
I'm streaming down a white rainbow...snow boiling light from ear to ear (sung to the 1st 8 bars of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(song)
Drawing in cover by Panajota Tserkesi http://www
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December 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A guy can still (if only) dream. Knock on wood... soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/w...
Take two on this chestnut. Portland's quite wet and windy, but still shy of wonderland white-cold. Give it a little time; take 3 gonna add the lyrics and my creative fractures of same.
Meanwhile, for you bigliest-ears hearers...
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Meanwhile, for you bigliest-ears hearers...
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Winter Wonderland 2 (Felix Bernard, Richard Smith)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Wonderland
Drawing in cover by Panajota Tserkesi http://www.tserkesi.de/
I haven't had this much fun playing my Christmas favorites on the keyboard since ev
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December 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Take two on this chestnut. Portland's quite wet and windy, but still shy of wonderland white-cold. Give it a little time; take 3 gonna add the lyrics and my creative fractures of same.
Meanwhile, for you bigliest-ears hearers...
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Meanwhile, for you bigliest-ears hearers...
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Good reportage on Oregon anti-ICE activism. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Trump suffers frequent failures as Americans push back at every turn
Rachel Maddow looks at a variety of legal tactics and pressure campaigns that are having success against the Trump administration's overreach in immigration enforcement and the Justice Department's ve...
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December 9, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Good reportage on Oregon anti-ICE activism. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
This was once what was on my mind. Now it's more like out of it, for the whole world (except me) to see and (only me) hear.
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The Christmas Song (Frank Loesser)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christmas_Song
Drawing in cover by Panajota Tserkesi http://www.tserkesi.de/
I haven't had this much fun playing my Christmas favorites on the keyboard since e
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December 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This was once what was on my mind. Now it's more like out of it, for the whole world (except me) to see and (only me) hear.
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A guy can dream... soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/d...
White Christmas 1 (Irving Berlin)
I'm streaming down a white rainbow...snow boiling light from ear to ear (sung to the 1st 8 bars of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Christmas_(song)
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December 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
A guy can dream... soundcloud.com/mheffley-1/d...
"But it was the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that enshrined her as a prophet. Bewildered Americans looked to her work about European cataclysm for guidance. Sales of Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” soared..."
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Hannah Arendt Is Not Your Icon
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December 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"But it was the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that enshrined her as a prophet. Bewildered Americans looked to her work about European cataclysm for guidance. Sales of Arendt’s “The Origins of Totalitarianism” soared..."
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Watch the whole thing for full impact. Good v. Evil is not a metaphysical abstraction/fantasy, nor is it a partisan contest.
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CDC Panel ends recommendation for newborn hepatitis B shot
Earlier today, a CDC panel voted to end the recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, despite a 99% drop in cases since in the 30 years since it was implemented. Brandy Zadrozny jo...
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December 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Watch the whole thing for full impact. Good v. Evil is not a metaphysical abstraction/fantasy, nor is it a partisan contest.
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Wikipedia XRT: These hagiographies had a powerful influence on the High Middle Ages conceptualization of the rex iustus, or "righteous king"—that is, a monarch whose power stems mainly from his great piety, as well as from his princely vigor.
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Good King Wenceslas (Tempus adept floridum)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_King_Wenceslas
Drawing in cover by Panajota Tserkesi http://www.tserkesi.de/
I haven't had this much fun playing my Christmas favorites on the keyboard since
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December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Wikipedia XRT: These hagiographies had a powerful influence on the High Middle Ages conceptualization of the rex iustus, or "righteous king"—that is, a monarch whose power stems mainly from his great piety, as well as from his princely vigor.
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Not dark yet but getting there?
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Opinion | Trump’s racism is horrible — but it’s not 1930s Germany
Philip Bump: The Trump administration is often compared to Nazi Germany. I asked historians to weigh in.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Not dark yet but getting there?
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Retracing the thousand-mile journey toward stardom that began with one step, MFers!
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We Three Kings of Orient Are/Greensleeves (Trad.)
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Three_Kings, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensleeves
Drawing in cover by Panajota Tserkesi http://www.tserkesi.de/
I haven't had this much fun playing my Chr
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December 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Retracing the thousand-mile journey toward stardom that began with one step, MFers!
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Opinion | Ilhan Omar: Trump Knows He’s Failing. Cue the Bigotry.
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December 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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"My Somali neighbors may have come from hellish situations, but they are trying to create a little bit of heaven for their families here in the United States...My Somali neighbors inspire me. They remind me of the best of this country."
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Opinion | I'm a pastor in Minneapolis who sees God in my Somali neighbors
G. Travis Norvell: My Somali neighbors are beautiful
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December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"My Somali neighbors may have come from hellish situations, but they are trying to create a little bit of heaven for their families here in the United States...My Somali neighbors inspire me. They remind me of the best of this country."
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