Friday's jazz: I requested the Amazon Echo to shuffle songs by Bud Powell.
1. Ah! Billy Collins featured the towering saxophone playing of the 6'5" Dexter Gordon to open and close today's poetry broadcast. Billy Collins returned to the onion theme and read Pablo Neruda's "Ode the Onion" and then turned to his own poetry and read "In the Evening", "Theme", and "Morning".
2. I returned to The Pillars of the Earth this afternoon and enjoyed the way the story is getting more and more complicated, thanks to a bishop who enjoys power a little too much, a cathedral that needs to be rebuilt, the banishing of Tom Builder's wife from the monastery, and the promise that conflicts between and within different characters are going to continue to grow.
3. Debbie spent much of the day getting ready to fly to New York with Gibbs on Saturday morning. Christy came over and enjoyed a cocktail with Debbie and, after she went home, Debbie pulled me away from The Pillars of the Earth and I joined her on the deck for some low key yakkin'. We moved the party indoors when it got chilly, but I crapped out a little early, wanting to sleep well before heading to Spokane in the morning.
Here's a limerick by Stu:
There's truly just one at the Top.
Had a hit urging you to "Don't Stop!
With high voice and clever feet,
He "Thrilled" us all with his "Beat!"
Give applause to the true "King of Pop"!
Michael Jackson born on August 29, 1958
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