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Symi: Summertime blues …. and getting it wrong again.

Posted on June 25, 2024 by BarryH

I began this post at the end of May Written in 1935 for Porgy and Bess, George Gerswin’s ‘Summertime’ is the most covered song in the world, probably in excess of 25,000 times.  Eddie Cochran wrote and sang ‘Summertime Blues’ … Continue reading →

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Tilos: rocky ramble and vrachophilia

Posted on July 10, 2013 by BarryH

No matter how rational we like to think we are we mostly make decisions based on subconscious, emotional inputs and then justify them with logic.  We reinforce the positives and diminish the negatives in so doing. Thus it was on … Continue reading →

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