Month: December 2020

Bach, Often

Have I shared this before? I don’t think so. Okay, it isn’t Bach, but I couldn’t resist the Offenbach wordplay. The video isn’t in HD, so enlarging it won’t improve the picture.

Here’s how Michael Powell presented the piece in a video clip of marginal quality.

I have the film on LaserDisc. There’s no word on when it will be available in America on Blu-Ray in the quality of this trailer for the remastered release.

How beautiful. How very beautiful.

Petula on Nashville

Posted a few minutes ago by Petula Clark on her Facebook page:

I feel the need to express my shock and disbelief at the Christmas Day explosion in our beloved Music City. I love Nashville and its people.
Why this violent act – leaving behind it such devastation?
A few hours later – I was told that the music in the background of that strange announcement – was me – singing “Downtown”! Of all the thousands of songs – why this one?
Of course, the opening lyric is “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely you can always go Downtown”. But millions of people all over the world have been uplifted by this joyful song. Perhaps you can read something else into these words – depending on your state of mind. It’s possible.
I would like to wrap my arms around Nashville – give you all a hug – and wish you Love, a Happy and Healthy New Year – and, as we sometimes say in the U.K., steady the Buffs! (Look it up!)
Love,
– Petula

Toxicology

For almost 15 years I traveled to hospitals and installed clinical computer systems. Some of the hospitals were large medical centers like Walter Reed, while others were small rural facilities. The government classifies the smallest of them as Critical Access Hospitals.

Trump’s influence has been so toxic that he threatens the already shaky standing of CAHs. The line has been crossed from rugged individualism into willful ignorance.