I'd Like To Ring In The New Year.... Simone Wednesday, December 31, 2008 ...with a band of gypsies Read more
People's Liberation Big Band Simone Monday, December 22, 2008 A new version of the Nutcracker and a new Christmas tradition. The People's Liberation Big Band… Read more
Train For Winter Survival Like The Cosmonauts Simone Thursday, December 18, 2008 The following is no joke ---a German company called Space Travellers, "the first commercial Sp… Read more
Burl's Pearl's -- Burl Ives' Surprising Oeuvre Simone Monday, December 15, 2008 Tis the season for everything Burl Ives. As the Burl Ives My Ass Coalition (BIMAC) launches its pr… Read more
Next To Godliness Simone Friday, December 05, 2008 My sister asked about dry cleaning the other day. She wanted to know what really happens to your cl… Read more
My Blog Goes In For Some Navel-Gazing Simone Tuesday, December 02, 2008 I didn't know what to write about today and was poking around in the administrative side of my … Read more
The Shepheardes Calender: December Simone Monday, December 01, 2008 Ægloga Duodecima. A R G V M E N T. THis Æglogue (euen as the first beganne) is ended with a comp… Read more
Heart of Gold WOW. I think I saw the best concert of my life last night, and I'm still all a-tingle. Neil, man. Neil Young. He pla… Keep reading
Gleesome Gladness Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fair, held on September… Keep reading
Pomp And Circumstance The Quad at the University of Missouri at Columbia Today I read about a 98-year old woman who just got her Master's… Keep reading
Winter Storm All Up In Here It was only a matter of time before we had to pay the winter gods for all the unseasonable warmth we had over Christmas… Keep reading
Happy Equinoctial Point Well we made it to Spring. The vernal equinox gives me a chance to stop and contemplate things like math and astrophys… Keep reading
Jazz and Classical fight like mad dogs at Helzberg Hall This past Saturday was my first concert at Helzberg Hall in the Kauffman Center. I discovered there are three things I… Keep reading