Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Saturday, January 6, 2024

A Musical Joke

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I found the book by serendipity, misshelved among works on Typography in the UT Fine Arts Library. I brought it home and then opened it to r...

Saturday, October 21, 2023

TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS AND THE MOB

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You are known by the company you keep. When Thomas Gregory Jackson became Tommy James of the Shondells, he was already on a career arc that ...

Saturday, February 6, 2021

Rachmaninoff

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My mother was more for Chopin and Liszt and we had a lot of that, especially as sheets and books, but also on 33-1/3 LPs, eventually in ster...

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Katyusha and History as a Science

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Beware of historians who quote each other. It was a forgotten lesson that I remembered in pieces while commuting about ten years ago. When ...

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Music Makes You Braver

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That is a tag line for the music of Two Steps from Hell founded by Thomas Bergersen and Nick Phoenix. When I was working as a clerk-typist ...

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Hallelujah

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I learned of the song from The West. Wing episode where Secret Service agent Simon Donovan is killed in a convenience store robbery. The s...

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Chimes of Freedom

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Flashing for the warrior whose strength is not to fight. Flashing for the refugee on the unarmed road of flight. And for eac...

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