One man’s love of music creates lifetime quest for high fidelity. In November of 2024, I taught a class at the Western Institute of Lifelong Learning (WILL) in Silver City, New Mexico, called How We Heard It: A History of Recorded Sound. Three one-hour sessions covered the phonograph’s invention in 1877, moved from wax cylinders …
“I want a lodge that is round like the day and the sun and the path of the stars. I want a lodge that is like the good things that have no end.” Then she chanted the song of the lodge that is round like the day and the year and the seasons. Hal Borland, …
Howie Richey left his hometown of Corpus Christi in 1971 to study radio at The University of Texas at Austin. He worked as a disc jockey in Fredericksburg, New Braunfels, and Uvalde. In 1982, he gained a slot on KUT-FM, the local NPR affiliate. Within a few years there, he was broadcasting a late-night rock …
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high-level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747 jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2010. That’s about five full 747s. In 2010, there …