I’m busy at my office desk, doing non-blog stuff. On the Pioneer PL-112D turntable that’s connected to the computer is a cool reissue LP of the Peter Gunn soundtrack by Henry Mancini, with Johnny Williams on piano. It was recorded in 1958, the year stereo records were introduced.
I bought the record new for something like $2.99, probably 40 years ago. Excellent pressing and sound. Some nice person put the soundtrack on YouTube, with an extra 13th track.
"Reissue produced by Ethel Gabriel/All music arranged by Mr. Mancini/From the Sound Track of the NBC-TV Series, "Peter Gunn"/Original album produced by Simon Rady/Recorded in Hollywood, August 26 and 31, and September 4 and 29, 1958"
I was going to compose a long, carefully thought-out essay on the recent wave of mass shootings. Screw it, why bother? I’ll just borrow a couple of videos from reputable news outlets.
Love the dress, Nora!
I’ll make a prediction. The Second Amendment will be repealed. Not in my lifetime, certainly, but eventually. The extreme interpretation by the Supreme Court, ironically from its “originalist” members, effectively removed “A well regulated Militia” from the amendment, making its repeal inevitable.
Reliving something I was doing 50 years ago, I’ve been listening to The Grateful Dead’s live album, Europe ’72. In high school I bought the 3-LP set on the recommendation of my friend Tom, who was a student at the Groton School.
Tom was really into the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane. He’s now a Harvard-educated attorney who advises world leaders and is certified to present cases before the World Court at the Hauge, Netherlands. I should have listened to more Dead and Airplane!
After listening to Europe ’72 for a couple of years, needing some fast cash in college I sold it along with some other records. Feeling nostalgic, as I often am, I bought the 50th anniversary 2-CD set. If I’d waited a couple of weeks, it would have cost ten bucks less, but such is the way of Amazon.
That’s my long introduction to this new Phish video. The band is currently on tour, keeping the spirit of the Dead alive.
I’ve never seen confirmation the band’s name is a contraction of Phil Lesh’s name, but that’s always been my assumption. Thanks to my pal Scott Murawski, of the legendary New England band Max Creek, I’ve met Phish bassist Mike Gordon. I didn’t ask him about the name, because another assumption of mine is that anybody who knows anything should know the answer.
A collection of Max Creek live shows, going waaaaay back, is on the Internet Archive.
Jimmy Johnson apparently gave up trying to fix the problems with his WordPress installation. I came within a day myself of giving up on this installation, but thanks to having had a career in technology I figured it out. Arlo and Janis is back in the Links section, but it now goes to the strip’s GoComics page.
The PBS News Hour wraps up its series on the crisis in rural healthcare. The problem is two-fold, with both of them resulting from a lack of funding.
First, many hospitals have closed and, second, with a nationwide shortage of primary care physicians, very few are working at the remaining rural facilities. You will note the report is mostly about Doctors of Osteopathy stepping in where there aren’t enough Medical Doctors.
Chiropractic and Acupuncture have no scientific basis. People who use those services are, in my opinion, wasting their money and/or the money of insurance carriers that have been pressured into covering the treatments.
The holistic approach of Osteopathy includes chiropractic treatment. Which, in my view, has all the validity of astrology compared to astronomy. The “treating the person not the disease” concept is, in my opinion, junk science. Focusing on the importance of diet, exercise, and sleep is my idea of holistic medicine.
Making a person feel they’re being heard works when their problem is emotional, not medical. Without getting into any detail, I saw this for myself with my late father when taking him to an appointment with a DO at a pain clinic.
Despite my unshakable doubts about Osteopathic medicine, DO’s deserve credit and support for providing services in regions where there aren’t enough MD’s. I also think the role of nurse practitioners — RN’s who become NP’s — as primary care providers should be encouraged.
