Category Archives: Happy Birthday

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Posted on Monday, 11 July 2011 9:14 by David Gorsline

No link, just a shout-out: Happy birthday, Doris Eileen.

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Sonny

Posted on Tuesday, 7 September 2010 20:03 by David Gorsline

Happy 80th to the Saxophone Colossus, Theodore Walter Rollins.

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I will always remember

Posted on Thursday, 25 February 2010 6:57 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday, Michael. (Listen to episode 17.)

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Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag

Posted on Tuesday, 9 February 2010 19:34 by David Gorsline

wood s lot reminds us that it is Gerhard Richter’s birthday.

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Onh honh HONH

Posted on Friday, 8 January 2010 6:33 by David Gorsline

Elvis is still the king.

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Surgery or bricklaying

Posted on Friday, 25 September 2009 9:14 by David Gorsline

Thanks to a reminder from The Writer’s Almanac, let us remember the birthday of William Faulkner. From Faulkner’s 1956 Paris Review interview:

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

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Not for unsteady souls

Posted on Thursday, 16 April 2009 6:35 by David Gorsline

Happy 90th to living national treasure Merce Cunningham. Alastair Macaulay’s piece for the Times provides the headline for this post. I saw Cunningham with his company in the Eisenhower in 2004.

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I remembered to remember

Posted on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 19:33 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday, Michael.

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Best wishes from a harmless maniac

Posted on Monday, 2 February 2009 13:00 by David Gorsline

wood s lot reminds us that it is James Joyce’s birthday. To which I can only add, from my small trove of bookmarks, this scrapbook of images annotative of Ulysses. Start with the map.

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Crossing the line

Posted on Thursday, 8 January 2009 10:23 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday to Alfred Russel Wallace, author of The Malay Archipelago.

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Musical shoe box

Posted on Wednesday, 15 October 2008 10:07 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday to Boston’s Symphony Hall, McKim, Mead & White’s masterpiece of architecture and acoustics.

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That was the Tom that was

Posted on Wednesday, 9 April 2008 7:49 by David Gorsline

Happy 80th to 50s mathematician/satirist Tom Lehrer, still with us, if not actively performing. (Link via Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard.)

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88 plus 2

Posted on Thursday, 20 March 2008 8:35 by David Gorsline

Happy 90th, Marian McPartland. Tom Nolan recaps her 30-plus-year run onPiano Jazz series from NPR (link via ArtsJournal). McPartland was one of the jazz artists pictured in Art Kane’s iconic photograph from 1958.

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Late in the day, but I remembered

Posted on Monday, 25 February 2008 17:23 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday, Michael.

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In Walked Bud

Posted on Wednesday, 10 October 2007 12:31 by David Gorsline

Happy birthday, Monk. (Thanks to Robot Wisdom for the tip).

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