I walk through my blindness the way I saunter down streets in Paris: unfettered and alive, ever delighted by the raw material of the senses. Come along with me. Just don’t try to take my arm unless I ask. What’s a flaneur? Read the first post, ![Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/04/isle_royale_fog.jpg "Fog at Isle Royale [Source: wildmengoneborneo.com]")
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. 
If there is an emerging genetic underclass, I could run for class president or class clown. Read more in 
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Poet and street artist Miss Tic isn't exactly a kid in a hoodie with a can of spray paint. Maybe she can still run like hell when the police show up, but can she sprint in high heels? Well-known in international avant-garde circles, her work is exhibited now at the Venice Biennale as well as the alleys of Paris. ![Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Louvre, Paris. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]]](../wp-content/uploads/2008/05/delacroix_liberty_1830_2.jpg "Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People. 1830. Louvre, Paris. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]]")
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February 3, 2023 at 8:29am
by Mark Willis Buddy Holly Live in New York With Peggy Sue 1958
Buddy Holly died in a plane crash on Feb. 3, 1959 while touring the Midwest with J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson and Ritchie Valens. “Fifty years after his death at 22, rock ‘n’ roll founding father Buddy Holly is still cool,” according to NPR’s tribute:.
Holly would have been 72 by now — and probably still rocking and rolling. Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Elvis Costello have all paid tribute to Holly as a major influence.
But the music itself wasn’t his only contribution. Holly was among the first artists to use the studio as an instrument: He spent days crafting songs and experimenting with techniques that were still new in the recording business.
It worked. Buddy Holly and the Crickets shot to the top of the charts just months after the band was formed in 1957. Elvis Presley had the sex appeal, but it was Holly’s boy-next-door charm punctuated with horn-rimmed glasses and bow ties, as well as his Southern drawl, that fans adored. Paul McCartney, who in 1976 bought the rights to the entire Holly catalog, remembers seeing him perform on a Sunday night in 1958 at the London Palladium. The Beatles were huge fans. John Lennon wore his horn-rimmed glasses “proudly,” McCartney says — after seeing Holly’s trademark black frames. Read more.
Don Maclaine’s clasic tribute to Buddy Holly immortalized February 3, 2023 as the day the muysic died, but when Garth Brooks sand Bye Bye Miss American Pie at the Lincoln Memoriallast month, we knew the music never would die. Unfortunately, thanks to the copyright grinches, the video is no longer available.
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