On becoming a meme on a stripper pole

Apparently tired of meme-ing the cat, Jennifer has turned her sights on me and unleashed the fury of the internet on my image. We were in Kansas City last summer visiting a start-up incubator that had a green screen.I’m not sure exactly what that pose is...

New linguistic saw

My wife’s business has a customer whose name is Lincoln. That’s funny because he lives in Lincoln. If I knew two Lincolns, and one lived in Omaha, I would call this one the Lincoln Lincoln.If he drove a certain kind of car, I would say, “Look, there...

MusicSpoke’s kickass reading session

Normally, choir directors tell me that when they attend a reading session, they feel lucky to find one usable piece of music. It’s a gold mine when they find two usable pieces from a session.After the MusicSpoke reading session at the National ACDA...

Romance and Tarantella

Once again, I am endebted to Christopher Marks for championing my music.Here is a lovely recital he did recently on a pretty terrible instrument. Chris really made the Reuter POFS 1000 sound better than I’ve ever heard.I also love how he plays my piece....