96 weeks since my last entry - not coincidentally, my last post came right around the time my wife and I found out we were expecting a baby. Marie Colette Dauphinais was born 4/13/08. The last 14 months have been a blur of sorts. She's amazing and has changed our lives for the better. Maybe I'll start blogging again, maybe I won't.

I humbly offer both an anecdote and a tribute:

In my 20 years of driving cars, I have blown two sets of speakers. Both times I was listening to Pavarotti.

Requiescat in pacem

So much for my pledge to post more often ( Read more... )

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I love being able to write/utter the following:

The Yankees are tied for last place.

Happiness is stumbling across "Enter the Dragon" just beginning on late-nite TV.

Hot damn...

"you have offended my family....and the Shaolin temple..."

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I had a riot playing a John Cage piece this past weekend with my old friend Stephan and a couple of new friends, John and Willie. The gig itself was a great deal of fun, with perhaps my personal highlight of the weekend being a spur-of-the-moment performance of Steve Reich's "Clapping Music" with Willie inside a gigantic Richard Serra sculpture. ( Read more... )

...you probably won't be able to make it, since you're either out of state or out of the country. BUT, if you happen to be in the area, you are most cordially invited to attend a recital about which I am most excited.

"Classical Elegance for Violin"

Carla Ecker, violin (Associate Concertmaster, Tucson Symphony ( Read more... )