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	January 6, 2004

IT'S AN HONOUR JUST TO BE NOMINATED... I'm flattered to have been nominated for a Koufax award for 'Best Blog'. The nominees, posted on Wampum's blog, are without exception well known, excellent, and best of all, politically left-of-centre. I gasped just to see my humble blog's name listed in such company. Wow. 11:24:53 AM  trackback []  comment []

AFTER HOURS All the gang has gone home Standing on the corner All alone You and me, streetlight We'll paint the town - grey Oh, we are so many lamps Who have lost our way Say goodnight, America The world still loves a dreamer And all the gang has gone home And I'm standing on the corner All alone -- Rickie Lee Jones For the first time in almost 40 years, I'm sitting down at the keyboard, re-learning to play. This lovely song with its sad lyrics and lyrical keyboard accompaniment, full of major seventh, minor ninth and diminished seventh chords, is where I'm starting. I took the photo last night, just down the street -- the pond down the hill behind these trees was frozen over and very quiet, peaceful and serene in the moonlight. If you're not familiar with the song, you can hear it here. You can listen to some of her CD's here and her live recordings here. Rickie Lee is an avid civil libertarian (though her activist website 'furniture for the people' is temporarily offline) so if you like her work, please consider buying something from her site. She's one of us. 11:23:00 AM  trackback []  comment []

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