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Minor Wisdom 
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Happy Juneteenth, everyone.
Posted on June 19, 2010A link for those unfamiliar with this day?s significance.
Small steps of love
Posted on June 15, 2010Today?s daily meditation from the Henri Nouwen Society: How can we choose love when we have experienced so little of it? We choose love by taking small steps of love every time there is an opportunity. A smile, a handshake,...
Walking to New Orleans (or perhaps taking some other mode of transportation)
Posted on June 15, 2010According to this map, a lot of people are flocking to New Orleans, mainly from the east and west coasts. Click elsewhere on the map to see how many are moving in or out, and where they?re coming from or...
Ashley Morris: An inspiration
Posted on June 14, 2010I?ve written before about Ashley Morris, an inspiration and a friend to me and to countless others. Besides being a loving husband and father and a good friend, Ashley was a fiery blogger. So large a personality was Ashley that...
My tablature for ?Danny Boy?
Posted on June 13, 2010Lately I?ve had O Danny Boy on my brain. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled onto the melody while messing around with the blues scale in E-minor. I fleshed out the melody in G-major (same notes as E-minor; just...
Happy 100th Birthday, Howlin? Wolf
Posted on June 12, 2010Thanks to more than one friend, I?ve learned that June 10 was Howlin? Wolf?s 100th birthday. So here?s the birthday boy.
The Sazerac: No f**king umbrella
Posted on June 10, 2010Courtesy of Letters in Bottles, here?s a demonstration of how to make a real drink.
Speaking of blues and bluegrass ...
Posted on June 06, 2010While we?re on the subject of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, here?s a musical paradox. Take Led Zeppelin?s classic Black Dog. How do you make that song bluesier? Add a touch of bluegrass. (Also syncopate the rhythm.)
Sympathy for the Devil, bluegrass style
Posted on June 06, 2010While on the subject of blues-bluegrass fusion: today, while listening to the world?s only radio station worth listening to (WWOZ), I heard a cover of ?Sympathy for the Devil? on banjo. It was pretty damn good. I don?t know whether...
Blues meets bluegrass: The Boy Who Wouldn?t Hoe Corn.
Posted on June 05, 2010Most people who hear this song find the lyrics a bit disturbing. Me, I like that it?s undeniably bluegrass and, at the same time, undeniably blues. Consider first Robert Plant?s bluesy take: Next, consider this version by Alison Krauss and...
Two blog posts worth reading
Posted on June 05, 2010Peter Friedman quotes Woodie Guthrie?s thoughts about his own copyrighted songs. Dan Hull laments a generation of intellectual couch potatoes.
The invisible gorilla
Posted on June 05, 2010A high-school teacher of mine, Fr. Josef Gregor, used to say, ?The more you know, the more you know you don?t know.? I was reminded of Fr. Gregor?s wise words while reading The Invisible Gorilla. Its lessons: you don?t see...
My guitar arrangement of ?O Danny Boy?
Posted on May 31, 2010I spent much of Memorial Day on a song about the sacrifice made by those who go to war and those left behind: O Danny Boy. As my last post stated, I stumbled into the song while messing around in...
Danny Boy
Posted on May 29, 2010I didn?t think of O Danny Boy as a blues song until a few weeks ago. I was playing random notes on the blues scale (pentatonic) when I accidentally played a phrase from the song. So I plucked the rest...
Happy birthday, Bob
Posted on May 24, 2010Today is Bob Dylan?s 69th birthday. To celebrate, please visit my favorite conservative blog, Southern Appeal, to watch a video of Idiot Wind. (This goes double for my progressive friends.)
The Black Keys? latest
Posted on May 22, 2010I just got the Black Keys? new album, Brothers. My initial impression: it?s not like any past Black Keys album. It?s kind of like Attack and Release in production but unlike it in mood. Anyway, here?s a video from one...
The history of the Tchoupitoulas Barathon
Posted on May 17, 2010Last Friday saw the 28th running of the Tchoupitoulas Barathon. The premise of this annual event is simple: 6 miles, 6 bars, 6 beers. Although many treat it as a race, probably most participants today treat it as a combination...
John Mooney channels Son House
Posted on May 15, 2010John Mooney is an old-school slide-guitar player who learned some of his stuff from Son House. If you didn?t know that, you?d guess it after listening to both of them. See and hear for yourself. First up is John, playing...
I like this guy.
Posted on May 12, 2010He?s more entertaining than Rush, more intelligent than Beck, and more coherent than Sarah Palin. Semi-Literate Former Gold Prospector Given Own Cable News Show
Communication breakdown
Posted on May 11, 2010Why do we so often fail to communicate? Ernie Svenson has an insight into that, which is worth reading. It?s also a great excuse to post this Led Zeppelin video.
You really can observe a lot just by watching. But most people don?t.
Posted on May 10, 2010You may have seen a video like this one before. If you have, watch this one anyway. You?ll discover that your powers of observation may not be as sharp as you think they are. (Hat tip to The Invisible Gorilla.)
The Black Ace
Posted on May 08, 2010I had never heard of Babe Kyro Lemon Turner, a.k.a. the Black Ace, until a few minutes before uploading this post. After you watch this video, you?ll want to learn more about him. You may do so here.
Defining and quantifying wisdom
Posted on May 08, 2010The title of this blog, Minor Wisdom, isn?t so much a promise as an aspiration. But what is wisdom? A couple of psychiatry professors at UCSD, Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., and Thomas W. Meeks, M.D.,conducted a study and published a...
Cheap bastards
Posted on May 06, 2010This one is just for New Orleanians. If you?ve enjoyed the Suspect Device cartoons in your weekly Gambit, know that the, uh, persons running that publication have canceled SD for no other reason than to save a few pennies. If...
We laugh when you?d think we should cry. And we drink.
Posted on May 04, 2010I?m posting this only because Mr. Cenac has us Orleanians nailed. And because Jon Stewart is, well, Jon Stewart. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cBeyond Awfulwww.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorTea Party
Jazz Fest postscript
Posted on May 02, 2010I had planned to use my Brass Pass to attend all seven days of Jazz Fest. Unfortunately, I missed two days because, well, I?m a lawyer, and sometimes the client?s needs preempt a lawyer?s plans. Still, I think I got...
In case you had doubts about what ?jelly roll? means, ...
Posted on May 01, 2010... Sweet Emma Barrett will take those doubts away. (Hat tip to Greg Peters.)
One conservative?s reaction to the BP oil spill ...
Posted on April 29, 2010... by Petigru?s Ghost at Southern Appeal.
A lot of sitting in at Jazz Fest today.
Posted on April 25, 2010Today was a perfect day to attend Jazz Fest. The sun was shining, but it wasn?t too hot or humid, just pleasantly warm. And the ankle-deep mud at the Acura stage yesterday dried out. (In yesterday?s post, I forgot to...
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