Bob Dylan awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest civilian honour in the U.S.
Relative Pitch?: President Obama declared “There was no bigger giant in the history of American music” {roll over Ives, Barber, Copland, Reich, Ellington, Carter….}
[Happy Canada Day.] Joe Canadian makes Citizen’s arrest of Stephen Harper for Destruction of the Environment
Harper Conservatives pass law expanding Citizen Arrest Powers. Harper Government’s gutting of environmental protection laws will cause serious harm to Canadian Environment
Bill Clinton: If I did not have sax, I never would have been elected President.
Clinton tells Arts Summit that music “taught him discipline and order and made him a good listener.”
Re Summer Re-runs, no Re-Joycing
“Reruns past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of Shaw to bend of BBC brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Downton Abbey and Environs”
Vatican Secretary of State blames Devil, Media, Dan Brown for recent scandals
Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone says journalists are “pretending to be Dan Brown”, creating divisions “that come from the devil.”
The Unkindest Cut?
Hitchhiking author writing book entitled “The Kindness in America” is shot by passing motorist.
Georgia Klu Klux Klan chapter wants to “adopt a highway”
“Now to get rid of all this blacktop!”
“Master of the Queen’s Music” storms out of restaurant; objects to background music
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who’s 9th Symphony in honour of the Queen’s Jubilee will be premiered June 9th, opposes restaurant music.
Rare Occurrences 1
Royal Diamond Jubilees: Queen Elizabeth II, 2012, Queen Victoria 1887
Hung, Drawn and Cultured 