My second ballet class was canceled yesterday because the instructor was ill, so I had a lighter day than usual. I took advantage of this and made chili – two kinds one with meat for Eileen and one without for myself.
I also made cornbread to go with it.
Eileen and I were able to have lunch together since she was out and about traveling from her old job to her new one in the middle of the day. That was nice. I also had a chance to speak with Elizabeth on the phone. I have been missing chatting with her, so that was particularly pleasant. After we hung up, my daughter-in-law, Cynthia, called and we chatted.
Spent a lot of time with Schubert and Scarlatti on the piano yesterday. I am being drawn deeper into both composer’s works for different reasons: lyricism of Schubert and the vitality and rhythm of Scarlatti.
I also discovered that Zappa did an album with Jean Luc-Ponty of Zappa’s music called “King Kong.”
I quite like the versions of Zappa’s pieces on it. It dates from 1969 the year after Zappa released Uncle Meat which has the tune “King Kong” on it.
Bless Spotify.
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Robert Pierpoint, 86, Dies – Correspondent for CBS News – NYTimes.com
I wasn’t going to bookmark this obit and then I reached the story of this pic:
In his memoir “At the White House: Assignment to Six Presidents” (Putnam, 1981), Mr. Pierpoint wrote that he had hurriedly received a story assignment but was about to play tennis with Ron Ziegler, President Nixon’s communications aide. He changed into a tennis outfit he kept in his locker at the White House, in anticipation of the match, while keeping the suit jacket on.
He wrote that when a photo of his full frame later appeared in a book and newspapers, “my superiors were far from pleased, apparently feeling that tennis shorts, a jacket and tie did not provide a dignified image.”
Marta Pierpoint said her father had relished that episode and would be buried in a suit jacket and tennis shorts.
I love it: “Buried in a suit jacket and tennis shorts.”
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Paul Leka, a Songwriter of ‘Na Na Hey Hey,’ Dies at 68 – NYTimes.com
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Memorable quote from this article:
Providing modern family planning methods to all people with unmet needs would cost about $6.7 billion a year, slightly less than the $6.9 billion Americans are expected to spend for Halloween this year.
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Economists See More Jobs for Machines, Not People – NYTimes.com
I sometimes wonder about this…… how tech has affected jobs….
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