Once again I doff the Dog Rat tupe to Denro for finding something that’s blog worthy. It also has a personal connection for both of us. We took courses at Westfield State that were taught by Phil Shepardson.
I knew Phil well. It was thanks to him that I started working in radio. Phil hosted a TV quiz show, called As Schools Match Wits. I have to laugh, hearing and seeing Shepardson in these video clips. Yep, there he is, just as I remember him.
With Friday the 13th behind us, here’s to Valentine’s Day.
Have some red velvet cupcakes.
I’m freeing my mind from blogging for a couple of days.
Tonight’s PBS News Hour ended with this segment about Boston’s singular significance in the Revolutionary War. Then it “goes woke” with a discussion of another revolt; the desegregation busing crisis of fifty years ago.
This music isn’t American. It isn’t in English. It can’t be any good. At least not for MAGA. Oh, wait. They’re white. Does that help?
Also from Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, is this 2016 performance in Kiev, Ukraine by 17-year-old Patricia Janecková. She died of cancer two years ago, at age 25.
Before Bad Bunny was born, Brazil’s Xuxa had this message.
Portuguese
English
Also from Brazil.
