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the best

I don’t know how I stumbled onto this. But John Prine Spotify passed it by me once again tonight. Every boomer needs to hear this, again and again. Before this, I didn’t know who Rodney Crowell was. Now I have tickets to see him at City Winery in Chicago on Veteran’s Day. For fun, we’reContinue reading “the best”

quick tune

Spotify runs so many by you. Tonight its the John Prine channel, which features very little John Prine. But some squeaks through, like the one below. This one was borne as something to roll over the credits of a movie. Daddy and them,https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166158/ about a dysfunctional family headed by Andy Griffith (!), with Billy BobContinue reading “quick tune”

Belgae moules!

Kathy and I spent a wonderful early Saturday afternoon at lunch in Hopleaf in Andersonville https://hopleafbar.com.  We took a long Red Line ride to Uptown then a walk over to Clark, where the bustling once-Scandinavian neighborhood sits. Our lunch feast was a full order of mussels accompanied by a big cone of frites and ailoi,Continue reading “Belgae moules!”

shameless plug

If you’ve got a Kindle and a spare buck, you can read my new book! Actually, it’s just a 9-page essay about an event from my youth. I thought it was too long and too deep to post on this blog. Here’s the link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095BS8VRJ I think Amazon gives me 30 cents. I probably willContinue reading “shameless plug”

make it add up, doc

Those invites from the “predatories”, journals and conferences alike, just keep on coming. For those of you not in academia, a “predatory” journal exists mainly to fleece authors of often astronomical article processing fees (APCs). Journal costs used to be covered by subscriptions and/or support from organizations. With most journal articles now accessed on-line, andContinue reading “make it add up, doc”

Dr. Frayne?

I wrote this and chose not to post it, as the nomination process I’d entered into was highly confidential, partly to protect the nominee, who might be hurt to know he/she did not get the prize. Well, George Frayne did not get the prize. But he’s gone now, leaving us late September before last. HisContinue reading “Dr. Frayne?”

unsubscribe!

Unsubsribe! It was a scene you’d expect from a millennial bar: two denizens at the corner with their noses intently in their phones oblivious to their surroundings. But the Palm Pavillion at Clearwater Beach was clearly a boomer bar, complete with a young duo in the corner faithfully belting out hits of the 70s atContinue reading “unsubscribe!”

dandy dozen

Merry Christmas to all my friends and whomever happens to stumble on this site! It’s morning as I write this. No presents yet, not even breakfast. Kathy and I sit by the fire, excerpts from the Messiah playing, sipping our orange-juice free mimosas. The nature of the crisis at hand hit me early. Kathy andContinue reading “dandy dozen”

Here Comes My Career

I’ve been having a thing with my high school English teacher. She was quite the babe back in the late 60s at Vicksburg High and I was maybe her pet, but nothing ever progressed then like you read about now. I went looking for her to find a discerning reader for my new blog. Also,Continue reading “Here Comes My Career”

why rheumatology and, um, death?

I thought after all this coronavirus stuff, we needed a light break. As is often the case these days, this one was inspired by my high school English teacher Mrs. Pharriss. Towards the end of a long e-mail, she asked me: “Did you have to deal with deaths of patients very often during your medicalContinue reading “why rheumatology and, um, death?”