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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Trump threatens Iran. Serious stuff babbled by an unserious man. Says he wants "unconditional surrender" says he could "take out" the Ayatollah. Real crime boss talk. Don says he is sitting on a "bunker buster" bomb.

Errands. Walking. Good to get out and move around.

Note: Shotei threw a few pitches. His first pitches as a Dodger. He did okay. Got a few hits as well. His interpreter, Ippei, got twenty seven months for stealing Shotei's money. Quite a story. Rumor has it that Shotei could beat Barry Bonds's home run record. (The Bonds record somewhat skewered due to steroids.)

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

A break with routine, have lunch with Roger. We talk about Tennessee. Fun to reminisce.

Errands.

More stupidity from the White House. Trump is putting up two flagpoles. What next. (Note how the Oval Office, with all those added gold ornaments, looks like a Las Vegas gift shop.)

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Juneteenth. A federal holiday. Trump complains about there being too many holidays. (Of course.)

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Friday the thirteenth.

Nice weather but rain predicted for tomorrow, the president's birthday (he'll be 79) and the day of the big parade. All over the country there are to be "No Kings" rallies.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

In Minnesota a man dressed as a cop (more cosplay) kills a pol and his wife. Shoots another pol. A manhunt is on.

Huge anti Trump rallies coast to coast. Washington D C rather quiet. Small crowd. At long last the parade begins. Creaking tanks brought out of storage. Rather sloppy marching, no lockstep...the boys just don't want to be here. Donny and Melania in the reviewing stand, along with sycophant Hegseth. No Ivanka or Barron. They sat this one out.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Father's Day.

Talk to Kenichi. Will see him next Saturday.

The nation awakes with the realization that millions of dollars has been misspent on that ridiculous parade.

Minnesota shooter still not apprehended. Trump comments on the shooting and says (he couldn't resist) Governor Tim Walz is "Incompetent." Breathtaking insensitivity. But what do we expect?

The Right has promoted the story that the shooter is a Democrat. He is, of course, a Trumpist.

I head out to Brooklyn. The trip isn't bad. We rehearse. A break. Talk to my section mate about the ridiculously embarrassing parade.

The concert goes okay. See a few friends. Talk to the former conductor (nice fellow), and one of the ABT conductors. Awfully nice seeing them.

Home by train. Glad to be home.

I have made it through another week.

Monday, June 16, 2025

Bloomsday. Can't find my copy of "Ulysses" and guess that I loaned it out. It has gone the way of all books.

Minnesota shooter apprehended. The conversative press tried to promote the story that he is a leftist. No true, of course.

Note: Today marks ten years since Donny and Melania made that famous descent on the escalator. Cheering (paid) crowd. Ivanka spoke. That was the first time I saw and didn't know who she was. I thought maybe she was a contestant in one of Don's beauty contests. Ten years of Don and his b.s.

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

It has come to light that Trump's speech at what is now called Fort Bragg was carefully staged. The boys were vetted. They had to be Trumpists. Also, this: No fat boys. It was a political speech, of course, gruesome low-life b.s., similar to the speech he gave at West Point. The booing of Joe was especially tasteless as the armed forces are supposed to be apolitical, not Trump's army. (OMG, there is even a Trump merch stand. A new low.)

On the news: Brian Wilson, of Beach Boy fame, has died, at 82. Poor guy, had his troubles. I remember when he came to Jones Beach for part of his "Pet Sounds" tour. They added a smallish orchestra (explaining my presence). Brian had thrown together a band. Not impressive. Maybe friends, or friends of friends. We rehearsed. They fed us. We did the show. Many cheering Beach Boy fans.

Evening. Tonight is the night Trump goes to the Kennedy Center (soon, we think, to be renamed) to see "Les Miz." Some of the cast members refused to perform. In Russia they would have been imprisoned. I saw this show years ago and remember its butt-aching length.

More bullshit re sending to troops to cities where ICE people are making arrests. Gavin Newsom is biting back. He might he be a Democratic prez candidate? (He's classier, better looking and more eloquent than Donny.) If not him, who?

The "Les Miz" event went okay. Some booing. A few drag queens. Funny. Is this a run or just one night.

Thursday, June 12, 2025

News of a huge air disaster in India. One survivor, who was coughed out of an exit door. He actually walked away from this. Amazing story.

Errands. Go to the bank to get my son's info onto the paperwork (Beneficiary.) This worked out okay. The young men there quite friendly.

Walking. Much walking.

Evening: Israel attacks Iran.

Ad on Craig's List for "seat fillers." Told to wear red, white and blue...but gold is okay. Fast food and a soda will be provided. Blacks are to be seated in VIP area. (You must tell them if you are Black.) Pay: One thousand dollars in cryptocurrency. Trump's "Fight Fight Flght" play money. All of this is so repugnant. Trump productions inc.

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Tuesday, Jiune 10, 2025

A mysterious pain in my back. I wonder it is from falling asleep on the sofa.

A strange day, starting with rain...a cal from my son. He's at the Nauburg Shell where he has a gig tonight. Says he has a break and wants to come by and stretch out.

Later: Kenichi shows up. Very glad to see him. And he's brought food (takeout Chinese).

The rain has stopped. The sun has come out. I pull myself together and board the train for Brooklyn.

At the B'lyn Museum, hang out with fellow percussionist (Spooch) before going in.

The rehearsal goes without incident. Nice to see a few people.

David Cox gives me a ride back into the city.

Turn on the news. Terrible. Trump has spoken to the troops at Fort Bragg (it was Fort Bragg, then Fort Glory, and now Fort Bragg again). He has the boys boo Biden. Classy guy.

The troubles continue in L A. All of this so that Trump can claim he is saving the city. Says that without his intervention it would be burned to the ground. Bullshit. This is just another distraction. Something he can rail about in his address on Saturday. His birthday. He'll be 79(?). Big army parade. Colossal waste of money.

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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Evening. A bit of the Tony Awards. Wow. All out "woke." So much so that you'd never guess we are living in Trump's world. One award goes to a young man who does a fully drag imitation of Mary Todd Lincoln. OMG. An evening gown and chest hair. Audra McDonnald does a "Gypsy" number that is difficult to watch.

Sort of related to the above: A production of "Les Miz" will be presented at the Kennedy Center (the Center's name not yet changed...but that's coming). Slated for Thursday night.

Note: More trouble in L A. Trump and Gavin Newsom (Trump calls him "Newscum") going at it. Trump sends the National Guard to L A and goes to play golf in New Jersey. He's at the golf course where (to get a tax break) his first wife (and mother of his first three children) is interred. Classy guy. There is no need for the National Guard to be in L A. To draw more attention to this debacle Trump sends some Marines.

Monday, June 9, 2025

More demonstrations in L A. Trump pretends he is saving the city by sending the National Guard, and the Marines. It is all bullshit. It's a distraction. He tells the uninformed that he's keeping the peace there. In the meantime preparations are in place for a big parade...Sunday...tanks and all that. I hope it rains.

Having seen a bit of "Elmer Gantry" the other night on Turner (did I mention this?) I ordered the book on Kindle. The author is Sinclair Lewis...who wrote with a blunt pen. Re the movie: I have no recollection of its having been shown in Oak Ridge. Perhaps too controversial. I think the subject (money-grubbing evangelical charlatans) might have been a sore subject in East Tennessee. I remember there were tent shows in the area (I never attended one) in which the gullible came forward to be saved. God, what a spectacle. So many phonies. The big name on this circuit was Billy Graham. And now his son carries on the tradition.

In an elaborate dream I show up for a gig and am handed a contrabassoon.

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Friday, June 6, 2025

D Day anniversary. Though the word anniversary doesn't quite fit.

Weather hot.

Trump and Elon continue feuding. Trump now want to sell his (never driven) red Tesla. Boys, break it up.

Saturday, June 7, 2025

The Sprectrum music channel. Alan Hovhaness Symphony No. 50 (!). None of his symphonies came up to (I've said it before) his Symphony No. 2. (It hangs together so much better than his other pieces we wonder if he got some help with its construction.) No. 50 is, to put it lightly, not wholly satisfying. When I think of Hovhaness (the only Scots/Armenian composer we know of) I can't help thinking of Nikolai Myaskovsky, the Soviet composer (twenty seven symphonies!) who stayed out of trouble, posed no threat, was one of Russia's Good Boys.

Brunch with Roger. I don't eat much but, later, dammit, I suffer heartburn and have to recover.

Such a strange day...rain and then heat and humidity.

Trump sends National Guard to L A to break up ICE protests. The presence of the Guard, of course, makes things worse. Tom Homan (I'll say it again) is an obnoxious pig posing as a human being.

Evening: Live broadcast of Broadway show: "Good Night and Good Luck," with George Clooney as Edward R. Murrow. Very good approximation. Murrow, cigarette in hand, was not as handsome as Clooney and Clooney's voice is not quite right. But...timely...standing up to Tail Gunner Joe. I remember much of that epoch. I was just a kid.

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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Now Musk says he doesn't like the "big beautiful bill" and urges the gang to vote it down. End of bromance, we guess. The boys were getting along so beautifully. Musk's drug use might have shaken things up. So...the Trumpists are busy explaining this away. Little MAGA Mike and the others are doing some explaining. We can be assured that Mike is praying about the bill and saying a special prayer for Musk.

Nice weather. Much walking.

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right wing nutcase, wants Harvey Milk's name removed from the Navy ship bearing Milk's name. Too woke. Other names are to be erased, among them, civil rights leaders.

I have renewed my subscription to the New Yorker, despite having numerous back issues on hand. I have gotten behind in this. I must do better. Too much clutter.

Evening. The N Y Phil is playing in Central Park. On a news clip I see that they ended with "1812." I heard volley after volley of fireworks. Jeez, what a racket.

Thursday, June 5, 2025

Very nice weather. A bit warm. Going out, I work up a sweat.

On the news: Musk has pissed Trump off by saying that Donny didn't want the Epstein scandal looked into any further in order to protect himself. A big blowup resulted. Threats. Musk says to Donny: I got you elected, etc. They tweet back and forth. Angry tweets. And just the other day, we remember, they were thick as thieves.

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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Obit of Bernie Kerik. Rather horrible detail re seeing his mother murdered by her pimp lover when he was quite young. In and out of trouble, he was, for a time, Rudy's assistant. He was at Rudy's side on 9/11. Couldn't stay out of trouble. Was in and out of jail. Pardoned by Trump in 2020.

Sunday, June 1, 2025

Hard to believe it's June already.

Note: In the old days we union members used to get a copy of the monthly rag in the mail. Now it's sent via email. I discover that John Carbone died. So many funny stories over the years. His one year with the Cleveland Symphony, our time together doing the dinner theater circuit.

And this: Obit for past president of the local, Bill Moriarty. Funny story about he called in Lester Lanin (!) to sign an agreement re pay for his sidemen. Mr. Lanin was not happy about this, not happy to be told how to divide the money. This, by way of a story later told by Bill. Lanin finally got ready to sign. Said: "I wanted to retire to a little house by the sea. Now I'll be put in a home, where they feed you a little arsenic every day until they've killed you off." (He lived to be 97.)

Monday, June 2, 2025

The FEMA guy Trump appointed said he'd never heard of "hurricane season." Uh oh. He later said he was being sarcastic. The circus continues.

Nice weather. Errands.

Ukranian drone strike destroys a third of Russian air force. This was the war that Trump was going to stop, with a single phone call.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

My Social Security came through. I have been nervous about it since Musk's minions got into government records. A nasty business.

I do shopping. A light rain.

A call from Kenny D who is wondering what to do with instruments and equipment for making oboe reeds. So many of my friends are unloading things as old age approaches. He laughs when I tell him that I hate for my son to have to deal with my books. (I have told him to put everything on the sidewalk.)

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Trump giving out numerous pardons (to those who have made contributions). Selling pardons...bad stuff.

Friday, May 30, 2025

Kenichi phones me rather early. He says our trip to Citi Field off. Too complicated. I will miss seeing the girls. He says let's take in an afternoon game sometime. We don't set a date.

Very nice weather. I do errands.

Wondering of Trump will pardon Sean Diddy Combs. He's handing out pardons...uh...well, selling them.

Later: Zoom call with the guys. Nice catching up with them. I learn of the death of John Carbone. So many gigs with him, back in the day. A real character.

Note: Elon shows up at the White House. Trump praises him (but, we are sure, is glad he is leaving and going back to attending to his car business). It has come to light that Elon is a druggie. Schrooms, uppers, ketamine, Ecstasy, Adderall etc. This might explain some of his wacky behavior...waving around that buzzsaw....the Hilter salute...jumping up and down...using his ten year old son (one of fourteen children) as a prop.

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

I talk to Kenichi. He says he's taking the family to a Mets game on Friday. Gramps is invited. It will be good to see the kids. (Funny. He says it's "Hello Kitty" night.)

Trump meets with press before getting on a plane. Says he's unhappy that his good friend Putin again bombed Ukraine. (Surprised?) Trump says "He's crazy!" Putin, we are sure, is having a good laugh. A Putin stooge remarks that Trump is getting emotionally overwrought, or words to that effect.

The Memorial Day war movie medley continues on the Turner channel. "The Red Badge of Courage." Audie Murphy (war hero and Medal of Honor recipient), Bill Mauldin (illustrator...whose "Up Front" is somewhere in this apartment). The movie, directed by John Huston, though hardly a classic is the subject the Lillian Ross book "Picture." I must have seen this movie when I was a kid. Not much of it stayed with me. My introduction to the Stephen Crane story came by way of Classics Illustrated. (How many of us remember this series?)

Monday, May 26, 2025

Memorial Day.

Nice weather. I remember in the old days I always had a concert to go to.

Trump sends out a deranged Memorial Day message. Calls his enemies "scum." Classy guy.

Tuesday, May 26, 2025

It's Trump vs Harvard. A pause in foreign student interviews as their visas are carefully inspected. He wants a list of names.

Trump wants a big military parade on his birthday, in June. He wants tanks, planes, etc. He's getting weirder by the moment.

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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Rain. I head out but don't go far, not really getting in my steps.

Trump has his Meme Coin event. The whole thing stinks of corruption. Long list of guest/investors that we are not privy to.

Friday, May 23, 2025

I head out. Weather a bit cold but good to stretch my legs.

Later: My weekly "call." Good to stay in touch with fellow musicians. (Though there is, not surprisingly, less to talk about.)

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Trump giving commencement speech at West Point. He is wearing a MAGA hat. The speech is, of course, an embarrassment. Rally rhetoric. A commencement speech, at this of all places, by a convicted felon, is a bit hard to swallow.

Evening: It being Memorial Day weekend, the Turner movie channel is showing war films. This takes me way back...I went to the movies every Saturday when I was a raw youth and sat through many of such movies and thought it glamorous to wear a unifom, carry a gun and kill the enemy. The men portrayed in these movies (no women) came from all over the U S. I'd never been much of anywhere at this point in my life and it was exciting to hear that the Italian guy [a sort of stock figure] came from Brooklyn.

But...a scene from real life...

A shock came when a man who introduced himself as my father showed up, in an Army uniform(!). (I have written extensively about this elsewhere.) Surprise. He wasn't around for long. Just long enough to get my mother pregnant. (Reminds me...I owe my sister a phone call.)

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Monday, May 19, 2025

Beautiful weather. Errands. Run into a few people.

The news is terrible. Trump makes a complete fool of himself by saying Joe has "stage nine cancer." Oh boy.

More details come to light. For years Joe (or his doctor) hadn't been mindful of Joe's PSA (prostate specific antigen) number. The number's calibration is still a mystery to me. I had a PSA test quite recently. My urologist told me to phone for the details. I phoned. He said my number had dropped from 10.2 (last year) to 8.4 and said this was good news. So, no biopsy...and life can go on.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Little Marco Rubio plays dumb on the subject of Trump's enriching himself. Asked about the huge Mem-coin dinner Trump is throwing this week, he sneered and said he knew nothing about it. It is a dinner the whole nation knows about. An explanation for his pissy reaction: he wasn't invited.

Little Kristi Noem (dog killer) drops the ball when asked what habeas corpus means. She's not even close.

The circus continues. Kakistocracy, government by the least suitable.

My Oak Ridge school friend's granddaughter performs on "The Voice." It is a long show (as I am waiting for her to appear). Much of a muchness. God, what boring music... But I see her perform and text my friend, feeling much relieved. "The Voice" is not for me.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Huge crypto currency dinner coming up. At a press conference Ms. Leavitt (that huge cross around her neck) says it will take place on "the President's personal time" and therefore not interfere with the business of governing. What b. s.

More talk of Trump's "big, beautiful bill." OMG. It squeaks by. The vote is taken as they burn the midnight oil. LIttle MAGA Mike says he prayed about it. (That's a comfort, I suppose.)

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Friday, May 16, 2025

Idea for a reality show: Migrants fight each other. The winner is awarded citizenship. Wow. This is now being pitched. Ye gods, what next?

Nice day for a walk. Errands.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

More walking. At the wine store QXR is on. Beethoven Seventh. Food fair on Eighth Ave. An annual event. Back in the ABT days I used to go. It changed...now there are many gewgaw stands. T shirs, cheap jewelry and that sort of thing.

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Pull myself together and head out. Take the train up to the northern end of the Bronx. Bedford Park Blvd. Sign in a Latin grocery emporium window: fresh goat.

Everything okay at the school. Get set up in plenty of time. The concert goes okay. Nice to see a few people. Nice to play a few notes. I run into a lady whose kid I taught when he was in middle school (Riverdale Country Day). We, sort of, catch up.

The trip home okay. Deal with the boredom (long subway trip) by toying with the Sunday Crossword. On arriving home turn on the TV. The news: Joe Biden has a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer. (Try as we might, we cannot take our minds off that horrible [so called] debate night when he blanked out.)

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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Important people are, ahem, going to bat for Pete Rose. They want his name cleared (all of that reckless gambling) so he can be in the Hall of Fame. This memory: seeing him play at the Shea Stadium. His determined running to first base, to beat out a single. They called him Charlie Hustle. Also...along the same lines. Rumors of a reinstatement of Shoeless Joe Jackson ("Say it isn't so, Joe.") re the famous Black Sox Scandal. (The Baseball Encylclopedia [a weighty tome; my bookshelf groans under its weight] has a fascinating account of the Black Sox Scandal in its opening pages. A great read.)

I do my errands. The news continues to be depressing as hell.

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

More in the Sean Combs trial. He liked to stage "freak outs"...orgies, baby oil, drugs...imported sexual performers. His former sex partner and sometimes punching bag, Cassie Ventura, is giving testimony. She is heavily pregnant. Combs brings in a bible, wears a cross around his neck. No surprise, this.

Rain.

More wacky dreams at night of gigs gone awry. When will this end?

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Much is being made of Joe Biden's mental decline. Jake Tapper has written a book about it. Each time the laws are bent we are told by Trumpers that there was a mandate. Hardly. It was, after all, a close election. Trump will continue his revenge tour...when he gets back from being feted in the Middle East.

Ageing continues to be a great bother. I cannot come up the the name or the word I am seeking. I dredge deep and it finally comes. And...those chest pains...really a distraction, especially in the mornings. But I keep moving and the pain subsides. I am told it is stress.

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Saturday, May 10, 2025

An influential Trump friend has suggested that Jan 6 should be a national holiday, celebrating the "patriots" who tried to stop a "stolen election."

And...Trump wants to have a big parade on his birthday. That's next month. He will be eighty nine. Wants tanks and soldiers...you know, like Putin has. (Putin's big parade is coming up.)

Nice weather.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Mothers Day. I touch base with Jean. She and the girls are upstate. Julie has a weekend job at the "camp." I touch base with Kenichi, thinking he has returned from Florida by now. Not quite. He is getting off the plane. The trip was a success. Later I touch base with my sister. There was an earthquake south of Knoxville. I've never heard of such a thing.

Very nice weather. Good for getting out and walking. Huge street fair on Broadway.

Monday, May 12, 2025

Qatar has gifted Trump a huge plane. A flying palace. Of course, ethical questions arise. Even some of the usually tight-lipped MAGA people are voicing objections. Not about ethics or emoluments...no...they are questioning its safety.

I make the trip up to Lehman College. The woman at the security gate remembers me. I can't imagine why. The rehearsal goes okay. I see a few old friends (I haven't played with this group in a while.) I am back home by 11:00 p m. Always happy to get home. Turn on the news. Lots about Sean Diddy Combs. A long trial, unravelling all of his scandals, is coming up. He is described as a music mogul but I only know him as a criminal.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Having run out of excuses, I do my laundry.

Later: Take the bus to the East Side. Walk north on Madison Ave. Some of those closed stores have come back to life.

Beautiful weather.

At Dr. Birns. The ladies who work for him, when not on the phone, converse with each other in Tagalog.

My visit with the doc goes okay. Take bus back. It's crowded. Go to Morton Williams, wondering if I left a very expensive med there. (A young lady was helping me pack a grocery bag. That was the last time I remember seeing it. I later looked for it at home. Couldn't find it. Panic ensued.) Ah, it is there. Great relief.

Home. Later: More of "Mad Men." Beautifully filmed. Watching it is a guilty pleasure.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Robert Prevost, from Chicago, is made Pope Leo XIV. The first American Pope. He seems humane, a contrast to the way much of the world is going.

Friday, May 9, 2025

Jean and the girls are going to the upstate place this weekend. I hope Kenichi arrives back safely.

Much walking. Beautiful weather. Having run out of pipe tobacco I go to see my friends at the tobacconist's. Make a couple of stops before coming back home.

Beautiful spring-like weather.

Coming home from shopping I see a big shiny Testa. A tank-like monstrosity.

Later: Zoom with my friends. We always have plenty to talk about.

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Sunday, May 4, 2025

I go to the A T and T store and have a nice young man look at my phone. He works his magic on it. It is all a mystery to me. Further errands...nice day for walking. They have closed off traffic for much of Columbus Avenue. Interesting feeling walking in area usually reserved for noisy speeding traffic.

Touch base with my son. He's going to Miami to set up a show. Coming right back. (Did I mention this?) Very nice talk with him.

I have a rehearsal on Monday. I shall be seeing the music for the first time. Sight reading. I hope it works out okay.

Monday, May 5, 2025

All kinds of craziness emanating from the White House. Trump says Alcatraz could be reopened as a prison. Anything to keep tongues wagging, yes? Anything to divert attention.

Pence got the Kennedy Profiles in Courage medal. This, regarding Jan 6, when the people reconvened to certify the presidential vote. Pence has been out of the news for a long time.

Boys Day in Japan. Well...that's what they used to call it. Now called Children's Day?

I head out. Train ride up to the North Bronx. Walk down the hill to Lehman College. At the rehearsal I see a few familiar faces. We rehearse. Among the selections is an arrangement of some Duke Ellington music that is out of our depth. But...we struggle through.

Home, and glad to be. A nightcap. A bit of the news. All very depressing. Try to sleep. Very tired from all of that walking. Wacky dreams, of course.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Trump further embarrasses us in a White House meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Carney who restates: "Canada is not for sale." Trump says something deeply stupid (no surprise) "Never say never".... implying that he has accomplished the impossible before.

Anything to keep tongues wagging: Trump says he wants to impose a stiff tariff on foreign movies.

Breaking with routine I watch a bit of "Mad Men"...caught just a bit of it the first time around. OMG. All of that cigarette smoking! And no end of drinking. The era captured here is late the 50s. Nixon running against JFK. Still in high school, I remember being positive that Nixon (being non-Catholic) would win. (It was believed, by many, that Kennedy would take orders from the Pope.)