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I took a picture

But you will probably never see it. As much as I want someone to see it I do not have anyone in my life at present who would be a suitable or appreciative audience. It is a picture of a quarter (25-cent piece) at rest on my...

Etude Radio Hour

It seems I’ll never actually hear this program, since it is highly unlikely recordings of it...

“Etude” Rambles

In which I pick through and discard duplicate copies of the “Etude” music magazine, rambling about what a colossal waste of time the project ended up being for me, while at the same time thinking underneath my breath that there might still be something salvageable in all the industry I put into that. Interesting how […]

From a Smoking Home

I wrote the other day about an unexpected delivery of what turned out to be 4 or 5 dozen copies of “The Etude” music magazine. They came from someone who found my “Etude” website and thought it appropriate to gift me a stack of those old magazines which had come into his possession. As much […]

Big Ideas

I have been letting myself down. I have big ideas for a new web presence, but I drown in the details. I can barely look at code anymore. My new site would endeavor to be all this and more, ha ha. A combo of the .MOBI and this, and all the thousands of other things […]

Eat Less Live Longer, Funerary Union, Planning for Chapel

I should have made it to the chapel today. There was still time before I left. But I got distracted. Excuses excuses. I don’t know if one trip will be enough, given the uncertainty of my use of the place as my private recording studio. Listening to some particularly cranky Joe Frank last night at […]

If there is anything in this world that everybody knows all about, that thing is music.

From The Etude Music Magazine: Half the time, when people ask for advice, they do not really feel the need of it. They perhaps think they do, until they obtain it and find out how worthless it is; sometimes they are disgusted because the advice is contrary to their own fixed determination. Sometimes, indeed, their […]

Dream of Meatloaf

Dreamed last night that an underappreciated skill was hunting live meatloaf. Most people, I learned from this dream, were unaware that meatloaf roam the wilds of lightly forested regions of South America and in Oregon. They are 4- and sometimes 5-legged creatures which, on account of their half baked constitution, survive mostly on their smarts […]

Post-It

Older gentleman here at the LIBARRY has loudly asked two librarians if there are any books here on how to play pool. The first librarian, clarifying in the form of a question, spelled the word: “P-O-O-L?” before somewhat glumly handing him a slip of paper with what I assume was a Dewey Decimal reference number […]

Flipping

I tried a new approach to my work with “The Etude” Music Magazine. Flipbook. I may have explored this option years ago but I don’t think it was realistic. Today there are dozens of software packages that allow conversion of PDF documents to fully-searchable flipbook documents. The OCR conversion is not as good as with […]

My Living Room Floor

Index to Music Published in the Etude Magazine. August 19, 2011.

I avoided buying this expensive book for quite some time, even though its content obviously complements my Etude Magazine project. The “Index to Music Published in the Etude Magazine” is a sturdy volume, feeling to me like a high school science textbook. My memory of this may be off base, but I seem to remember […]

Another Cream of Wheat Ad

Tonight I scanned the November, 1916, issue of The Etude Magazine and therein spotted this Cream of Wheat ad painted by Leslie Wallace. I am tired and crotchety and experiencing an ancillary WHOOSH moment. Possibly on account of the incongruities bludgeoning my head muscles I thought it made sense to share: I shall now loll […]

Buescher True-Tone Saxophone

Today turned into a sleep-deprived OCD thrashfest of content and desperation. I spent most of the day combing the July, 1920, issue of The Etude music magazine looking for neat stuff like Mary Gardner’s interview and this exploration of the vanity of nervousness among artists. I also annotated some of the coolio Matchbook Covers with […]

The Road to Success

I am still finding my way with this Etude Magazines project. I just thought I’d share The Road To Success, a full-page cartoon from The Etude Magazine, October, 1913. Click the image for a bigger version. I like the bodies flailing head-first into the pit of illiteracy, the river of failure, and the giant hand […]

finds

i made a pretty cool and exciting find today, though likely it is cool and exciting to few besides myself. it involves my old magazines project, in which i have scanned thousands of pages from old music magazines that have sat on my shelves for years, converted the stories to text using ocr software, and […]

The Magic of Rubifoam

Old Magazines

Harry Adjip seemed like an interesting guy. The son of a North Dakota Cherokee (who was devoured by a black leopard), Mr. Adjip was born in Hawaii and at a young age traveled to Malaysia. Raised as a Mohammedan Mr. Adjip eventually found his way to America where he converted to Presbyterianism and became a […]