It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Sunday, May 6, 2018

To Call Her A Musical Genius ... Defies Exaggeration

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In a culture where
the two most dangerous words
are
Donald Trump,
It behooves Americans
to have a cultural counterpoint:
two words to signify musical magnificence.

Two such words are

An indication that there may be
intelligent life on this planet:
NINA SIMONE
has just been inducted
into
The Rock n' Roll
Hall of Fame
  
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Footnotes
If thirty people asked me to name
my favorite Nina Simone song,
I could give thirty different answers
and  ALL would be correct

For personal reasons 
too numerous to mention,
this recording of
Nina's cover of Billie Holiday's
would be
one of those songs.


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