tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29722041898130768292011-07-08T06:58:05.325+02:00JB ruminates or simply sounds off . . .Jonathon Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00791274646289429821noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2972204189813076829.post-82768827286833271932010-02-23T00:19:00.005+01:002010-02-23T00:28:15.328+01:00

...except that it's not he that falls but the chair that fails...- 'twas ever so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsAoUo0FkjkOne day soon: my campaign against plastic chairs.  (But you can tell this poor charley's was of wood.)

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or: Tristan Barfly in Barcelona Two foot of snow (in the south of France, n.b.) did not deter me from reaching the aeroport to fly to Barcelona, my first visit against the tide of the nose-long sniffers, oh-haven't-you-ever-been?-golly...   The 'plane skirted out across the coast and we swapped the hills in their dusty baker's white caps of snow, for similar little white peaks across the lonely,

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8497427.stm

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Now that we've had ten years of the year two-thousands I can safely say that the most astonishingly beguiling and arresting record to have come my way in the decade is of a Chopin waltz, recorded by Michael Zadora in the early 1920s on a German 'Vox'. Born in New York, in 1882, Zadora had a mild career more teaching than performing (though performing at e.g. New York Town Hall, or Carnegie Hall,

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It is with no small humility that I am the first to say something about the iPad, which is ideal for anyone wanting an instrument with, er, exactly its specification. Is it possible that the impressive secrecy that surrounded it came simply from the dullness?  If they had gone for the SlotJonny there would have been a port in which to dock your iPhone... if they had gone for the RollUpJonny the

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... almost like being published.  But probably not like actually being read.  Time for a pastis.

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I'm new to this. Crikey!

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