Monthly Archives: June 2019

Parting Looks — HJN

Posted on June 23, 2019 by JMN

Harold J. Nichols (1924 — 2013) (c) 2019 JMN

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Parting Looks — Tom Jones

Posted on June 23, 2019 by JMN

James Thomas “Tom” Jones (1920 — 2000) (c) 2019 JMN

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Parting Looks — Tom Jones

Posted on June 23, 2019 by JMN

James Thomas “Tom” Jones (1920 — 2000) (c) 2019 JMN

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Guide by the Perplexed — Concerning Idiots

Posted on June 20, 2019 by JMN

In exposition, where precision is of the essence is in the tight spots — there where you least want ambiguity to clog the flow; where first teachings reside, upon which further teachings helplessly depend. Yet there ambiguity supervenes, often as … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks — HJN

Posted on June 19, 2019 by JMN

Harold J. Nichols (1924 — 2013) (c) 2019 JMN  

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Guide by the Perplexed — Triad Tirade

Posted on June 18, 2019 by JMN

“A triad is a simultaneous combination of three notes.” (Ralph Denyer, “The Guitar Handbook,” Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006) The introductory sentence to the “Triads” section of this useful guide distracts me from triads. I’m drawn off the mark … Continue reading →

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Parting Looks — Tom Jones

Posted on June 18, 2019 by JMN

James Thomas “Tom” Jones (1920 — 2000) (c) 2019 JMN

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Parting Looks — Buck Schiwetz

Posted on June 17, 2019 by JMN

Edward Muegge “Buck” Schiwetz (1898 — 1984) (c) 2019 JMN

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Surrealism’s Daughters

Posted on June 17, 2019 by JMN

The creature with a “cow’s head” in Carrington’s “And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur” looks like the minotaur bred a doe, which of course is surreally plausible. The French capital was alive with Surrealism and its contagious … Continue reading →

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Guide by the Perplexed — Kentucky-Fried Crow

Posted on June 16, 2019 by JMN

I’m due a serving of KFC for asserting in the last chapter of GBTP that in guitar tuning the Major Third between strings 3 and 2 punctuates a sequence of Perfect Fifths. I should have said Perfect Fourths. For me, … Continue reading →

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