Before we move on the regular silliness I had to share the best spam post the blog has seen in a loooong time…somebody actually registered on the site so send me this: “Today, I went to the beаch fｒont with mү kids. I found a sea sheⅼl and ցave it to my 4 year old […]

I haven’t really been a please-add-your-comments-to-create-a-blog-entry guy but I just couldn’t resist this one time. I was digging through a mountain of choral music in the library of my choir director gig and ran into some pieces that I remember singing in church back about a thousand years or so and had a thought (stop […]

And it looks a bit on the nippy side!

YouTube can certainly be a vast wasteland of absolute time-wasting dreck. Every now and then I’ll stumble upon something that makes me think 1) what on the vast green earth would possess someone to film this and 2) what in the vast blue ocean would make someone post it (and then I feel a little […]

So a family member of mine was cruising the blog and mentioned in an email that, although she’d known me most of my life, she’d had no idea I was so bizarre and twisted (I suspect she was fibbing, it’s not like I hide it). I found it difficult (impossible) to disagree. She had also […]

The Blogmeister is on vacation next week so I thought I’d just drop a quick note in here and be back for our regularly scheduled sillines on the 22nd. —– Dear Susie, I was going to rehearse at home last night. Honest. But I couldn’t… I’m sure you understand…

I was telling this story to a friend of mine and he thought it would be great for the blog…so here it is. —– Back in boot camp I was the Recruit Petty Officer in Charge and Conductor 0f the choir segment of a “Triple Threat” Division (choir/band/drill team). Even though there are those who […]

Consider this sentence: “I saw a man sitting at a bar with a beer.” Which could mean, depending on the interpretation: “I saw a man sitting at a bar holding a beer.” “I saw a man sitting at a bar with his beer on it.” “I saw a man sitting at a bar that had […]

An actual pre-concert quote from an actual member of the Windward Choral Society: “My wife likes me better when I’m singing in the choir. Best therapy ever.” Amen to that, brother. I don’t know about the rest of you but the Christmas music playing in the background EVERYWHERE takes all of about a nanosecond to […]

Susie has been saying it for 10 years…make eye contact with your audience. Make a connection with your audience. Also, look up from your music and watch the conductor (a subject for another day). That connection is one of the reasons that I sing in the Windward Choral Society. There are actually two: the one […]