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Furry Lewis' grave

Ghost Story

By Arne Brogger – Business took me to Nashville for three days and I decided to take a long weekend and visit Memphis. I hadn’t been there in almost twenty years, not since the funeral of my old friend and co-conspirator, Walter “Furry” Lewis. Furry was a charter member of the Memphis Blues Caravan (MBC), a group of geriatric bluesmen whom I had the pleasure of booking and managing in the Seventies.

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The Name David

Everyone Else Thinks It Means ‘Beloved’… From: The Penguin Dictionary of Saints, by Donald Attwater. Thanks to Jim Higgins for forwarding this info.

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Bill Hinkley’s Pledge of Allegiance

From the one-and-only Bill Hinkley – Inspired by William Safire’s column in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, “I Led The Pigeons To The Flag…” –late 1990s

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Courtney Love Does the Math

By Courtney Love (Speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference, given in New York.): Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist’s work without any intention of paying for it. I’m not talking about Napster-type software. I’m talking about major label recording contracts.

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Scanning Blues Lyrics

A couple of my better-educated pals got into a discussion on this topic and I prepared the following message. As usual, I invite the word of those who know more than I on this topic. Following my publication of this piece, I got a letter from Kevin FitzPatrick with a few pages of Robert Wallace’s article entitled “Meter In English,” which appears in the book of the same title edited by David Baker and published in 1996 by the University of Arkansas Press. Kevin makes a trenchant argument for interpreting my lyric examples as iambic meter. The Wallace article backs him up. I have appended a note to the end of this article explaining the interpretation Kevin espouses. You’ll have to flip back and forth because I’m too lazy to redo the whole page to include his comments where they rightfully belong.

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When is Easter?

Here’s a rap on Easter dating protocol I took out of the Mr. Fixit column in the local fishwrapper.

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Camel Story

Koerner’s Camel Story – John and I were talking with Henry Blackburn about catalysts and certain chemical reactions. A catalyst enables or assists a reaction without adding to or subtracting from the reaction and remains unchanged while doing so. John reminded us of this alleged Sufi tale of the sheik and his bequest to his three sons.

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U. S. Apology to China

Here’s something I stole off the ‘Net in April of 2001. The Colin Powell (not State Dept.) apology to the Chinese government for the airplane thing.

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Notes from Dave’s Old CD Ordering Page

You may or may not get a jewel case. Maybe your copy will come in a plain sleeve and if you want it put in a jewel case, you’ll have to go to the Mall and buy your own. I don’t like them because they’re an environmental insult and they snap, crackle and pop every time you look at them sideways. Also, they’re a pain in the ass to mail. The only use for them is as a theft deterrent in the retail store and a way to see (from the spine printing) what’s on your shelf. Since you can’t read the printing without a pair of binoculars, the latter use is marginal.

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Site Information

CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THIS SITE Now for a brief word about the way this site works. The author info is in the “disclaimer” file, accessible from the highlighted line below. Dave constructed this site on a Pentium II 333 machine running Windows 98 displayed on a Viewsonic 17″ monitor running at 1024×768 in…

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