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Sunday Afternoon Nerd Mashup Fest

Star Trek Meets Monty Python! I love it. Well done! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Star Trek A-Team. This is just a seque… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video …into Han Solo, P.I.! Here is the side-by-side comparison. It’s [...]
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Chris Potter solo All the Things You Are

A while back, Russ sent me this video (audio really) of Chris Potter playing All the Things You Are at a master class. It is mind blowing, and I’ve recently come back to it to work out what I can on my tenor: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Today, Stef [...]
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Muppet Beatles

Who does Beatles covers better than the Muppets? Blackbird You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video While My Guitar Gently Weeps You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Octopus’s Garden You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video She Loves You You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to [...]
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9 Goes To 10

On Monday night, my friend Josh Irving played at a fairly new Brazilian jazz club in New York called Cachaça.  Josh is a saxophonist I’ve known for nearly nine years now (has it been that long already?).  His quartet featured long time collaborator George Dulin on piano, Danny Zanker on bass, and special guest [...]
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Matchstick Rockets

This is something my brother and I learned from a book many years ago.  We used to do this in my grandmother’s yard.  Today, I showed Jen how to make rockets from matchsticks for her In The New blog.  I thought the video was so cool I’d cross post it here. These are wooden matches, which [...]
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Kai Tak

I had a dream last night that one of Jen’s friends was addicted to flight simulator and was obsessively landing at Kai Tak, the former international airport of Hong Kong.  This airport was well known for it’s dramatic and challenging approach to Runway 13, necessary due to the nearby mountain range.  This approach included a [...]
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Get jiggy with the Sox!

The Boston Red Sox are MLB World Champions for the second time in four years! This was their 8th straight World Series game win, having swept the last two series. They outscored their opponents 99-46 this postseason. Enjoy… You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Oh yeah, everybody learn the Papelbon [...]
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Lady In The Tube

Jen was on CNN tonight, live via satellite even! She was featured in their Young People Who Rock section for her In the New project. I wish I could have seen it on TV, but I was at work. Luckily, video of the interview is on their website! Check out her blog and [...]
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Michael Brecker: Delta City Blues

This is just awesome. Check it out: YouTube link
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