tantalus2009

There is more to New Jersey than chemical tank explosions, the turnpike and bad smells. Take the Jersey Devil, for example.

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I love chardonnay, I love escargot, I love Edith Piaf, I love musette accordions, I love Paris in the springtime. Mimes....meh. This is the story of how I became a Francofile

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April 2, 2012

One day I was listening to a commercial from our friends at the nuclear energy company, assuring us all that nuclear energy is clean, cheap and, above all, safe. Chernobyl was an impossibility in our country because of the advanced safety features, blah, blah, blah. I wonder if those clowns have spent any time at all down the Jersey Shore and if they really thought they could evacuate in the event of a meltdown. So I wrote this song. You don't hear yodeling much anymore!

Listen closely to this sad object lesson about hubris, humility and....]

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Last month I had a chance to visit Dave Nachmanoff, an incredibly gifted singer, composer, and player of multiple instruments.  His new CD "Step Up"  does not have a low point on it and to find out more about Dave and his work visit

http://www.davenach.com/

I urge you, BUY THIS CD.

I got to record a few songs with Dave and he was ever so kind to me. Made me feel right at home and his family is beautiful!

Actually, I felt like one of those duffers that go and visit the fantasy baseball camps in the spring. Dave would  have none of it and he is very encouraging. Ok. I'll try to attach the song here. This one will be, I THINK, Sunday Morning Coming Down by Kris Kristofferson a long time ago, but it is still popular after all th ese years. Don't crab about the lyrics, Crabby people are boring and you don't want to be boring, do you?

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Every now and then something happens to even the most hardened skeptics that makes them less skeptical. For a couple of hours, at least.

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It was only a matter of time before we started BACK on our way to grunts as epistimology.

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This is the initial effort following a lifetime of fantasy. The technology has finally caught up with the only furtively dreamed. This is dedicated to my mentor, unintended philosophical guide and the most talented raconteur of the late 20th century, Jean Shepherd. There can only be one master and Shep was it. Flick lives! Excelsior, gang!

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