Archive for February, 2008
OK - I’M BACK! COMPUTER OK — I dodged a bullet
By Tom Teicholz at 20 February, 2008, 8:59 pm
Turns out the screw that holds my hard drive in place had come loose. WHEW! Much relieved. Went a day without my computer — didn’t quite know what to do with myself.But now I got to catch up
Read More >>OK - I’M BACK! COMPUTER OK — I dodged a bullet
By Tom Teicholz at 20 February, 2008, 8:59 pm
Turns out the screw that holds my hard drive in place had come loose. WHEW! Much relieved. Went a day without my computer — didn’t quite know what to do with myself.But now I got to catch up
Read More >>Whole lot of blogging to do
By Tom Teicholz at 19 February, 2008, 9:33 am
I’ve got a whole lot to report on:
From the Was/Not Was performance at the Orpheum,
with special appearances by Jill Sobule, Brian Wilson and Kris Kristofferson
To a weekend spent in Vegas
where we dined at Bouchon, SW (the Steakhouse at the Wynn), and where my daughter saw the Beatles Love show, went to the Shark Reef at [...]
Sia on the Third street Promenade /DON WAS at the Orpheum
By Tom Teicholz at 14 February, 2008, 7:43 pm
Sia, The Australian singer-songwriter just performed a half-hour set at the Hear Music Starbucks store on the promenade.
The
above is a poor Treo shot — but it is now de rigueur for people to
hold up their cellphones during performances and take pics and I felt I
owed my audience a little documentation.
Sia has a great stage
manor, goofy [...]
“You and me” - Poetry for Valentine’s Day
By Tom Teicholz at 14 February, 2008, 11:17 am
When I thought of finding a love poem for Valentine’s Day, my mind went immediately to “Toi et moi,” (”You and Me”) the collection of poems by Paul Geraldy. Published in 1913, “Toi et Moi” was an instant success, and was at one time the best-selling collection of poetry in France — it is sentimental [...]
Read More >>“You and me” - Poetry for Valentine’s Day
By Tom Teicholz at 14 February, 2008, 11:17 am
When I thought of finding a love poem for Valentine’s Day, my mind went immediately to “Toi et moi,” (”You and Me”) the collection of poems by Paul Geraldy. Published in 1913, “Toi et Moi” was an instant success, and was at one time the best-selling collection of poetry in France — it is sentimental [...]
Read More >>“You and me” - Poetry for Valentine’s Day
By Tom Teicholz at 14 February, 2008, 11:17 am
When I thought of finding a love poem for Valentine’s Day, my mind went immediately to “Toi et moi,” (”You and Me”) the collection of poems by Paul Geraldy. Published in 1913, “Toi et Moi” was an instant success, and was at one time the best-selling collection of poetry in France — it is sentimental [...]
Read More >>“You and me” - Poetry for Valentine’s Day
By Tom Teicholz at 14 February, 2008, 11:17 am
When I thought of finding a love poem for Valentine’s Day, my mind went immediately to “Toi et moi,” (”You and Me”) the collection of poems by Paul Geraldy. Published in 1913, “Toi et Moi” was an instant success, and was at one time the best-selling collection of poetry in France — it is sentimental [...]
Read More >>More Dylanalia
By Tom Teicholz at 13 February, 2008, 2:59 pm
Since posting about Dylan covering other people’s songs, I stumbled into a bunch of others on MOG — www.mog.com , a music blog site. (By the way in my last post I said Wolftrap was in Maryland; turns out it’s in Virginia — which speaks volumes about what condition my condition must have been in [...]
Read More >>Wells Fargo Gold Rush Museum
By Tom Teicholz at 13 February, 2008, 2:51 pm
I went on a school field trip today to the Wells Fargo history of the Gold Rush Museum in downtown Los Angeles (located in the Wells Fargo building on 3rd and Grand, across the street from MOCA).
Having grown up in New York, I know little about the gold rush — and I have to confess [...]