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Here is a Sup—I mean repository of the texts of my together with some readings of them. The essays were broadcast by WXXI 91.5 Classical of Rochester, NY on Salmagundy each Saturday at 9:35am Eastern Time, from the beginning of time (1985) till May 2009 when Entropa (evil Goddess of Change-for-the-Worse-or-Possibly-the-Worst) troubled the minds of the WXXIites and they retired Simon and Salmagundy, and Rochester went into a terminal decline---for ever.
I continued on that brilliant bastion of all that's good and kultured, WCLV's syndicated Weekend Radio on many (mainly NPRish) stations traditionally on the first and third weekends of the month, though weekendage varied, till the horror crept ever onward and that too was devoured (in August 2023, a date which will live in infamy or at lease mild irritation)... and only I remain, defiant though wimpering.
Richard Howland-Bolton
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There is a lady who reads the news and snippets from the papers and the like really early in the morning (Texas time) for the BBC's World Service and who has what I like to think of as a Mid-Atlantic accent (not that I like to think of it much). You know the sort of sound---wet, windy and miles from anything useful, not to mention rather fishy when you get really down to it.
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In various places in the several media this week all sorts of people have been going on about the fact that on the twentieth of February of fond memory there was an interesting pattern of digits.
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All this week I've been waking up to the radio reports of that trial at the Hague, and (of course) being me the one thing that stands out is the way that everyone from the prosecutors on down keeps maligning the Middle Ages. It seems as though every report has some new case of them holding up the Middle Ages as an epitome and exemplar of Mediaeval brutality or Mediaeval stupidity or Mediaeval deprivation.
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Over the years WXXI has had a noble record for commemorating the great events of musical history: the births of Bach, Handle, Mozart, Beethoven have all been celebrated and, at last, finally, right now, we are going to celebrate the death of St Godric on the eve of St Godric's Day---the twenty-first of May.
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Oh dear! I always seem to be putting out this sort of 'intellectual thing', you know, I'm always spouting about music and history and keep on reciting poetry, so that by now people are always asking me who is my favourite writer, and even though it's obviously my own fault I am beginning to get just a little peeved by the repetition. So to crush this bug in the bud, as it were, I will tell all of you, and hope that you will tell everyone else.
My absolute most favourite writer in the whole wide world is Orrm .
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In those gruesome, dark moments of wakefulness in the middle of the night when you start to have visions of mass destruction and racial suicide, what sort of pictures flash through your mind?
Horribly and excessively be-medaled generals inspecting their nuclear arsenals??
Vast herds of lemmings thundering over the sub-artic plains in wild abandon??
Letting-out time at your local school??
Well I was just like you until the other day, but now my eyes have been opened.
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You know for once you don't really need to listen to this week's piece because it only exists as part of a frantic attempt to remember to send my mother a card and, perhaps, some flowers or something for Mothering Sunday.
Now please note carefully this is not that Mother's Day thing you have in the middle of May, but the real thing on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and I think (or rather desperately hope) it is on 25th of March this year.
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I belong to one of those "Video of the Three-and-a-half-weeks" clubs. It's not a bad thing as long as you never delay in telling them exactly what to do with their so-called 'directors' cut', but in spite of that they seem to think I'm a good customer and they recently sent me what they called a "customer reward certificate"---the reward apparently being that I could give them more of my money.
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Save us all! It's past the middle of February and I hope past the middle of the rainy season down here in Stetson-land and it rained all last week and we are almost past a perfect, and for this time of year, unusual sunny day, and they are out and at it! The last rain is barely dry and they are at it!! It'll probably rain tomorrow and yet they are at it!!!
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Arigato gozimasu!
Sumimasen---sorry, sorry I'm getting carried away here and all because I've started to attend a continuing ed. class to learn Nihon-go er Japanese. It is great fun and I'm learning a lot, but there is a serious down-side. Let me tell you about it because it's a good example of the dangers of impulse buying.
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