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Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.

Clocked with a frying pan

On June 2, 2022June 2, 2022 By Eric Peterson1 Comment

Over the next week, and indeed up to now, I've been slightly manic and overly perky, particularly when interacting with other people, as if I'd had not quite enough sleep (completely true) and way too much coffee (not true at all). My friends were eying me askance, wondering when I'd break down. ("How is he …

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So, what the hell happened?

On June 1, 2022June 11, 2022 By Eric Peterson5 Comments

How did a man in his mid-'60's, so close to retirement he could taste it, suddenly leave us behind? Close friends and family know most of this already. The last few years for our household (as for most of us) was a shitshow. I'd gotten laid off at the end of 2018, then spent most …

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Charles is gone

On May 30, 2022June 3, 2022 By Eric Peterson1 Comment

Charles Keiser, 1955-2022 He was always my angel. His memorial page is here. You can still watch his funeral service on-demand from the church website, although I don't know how long that will be up. I'll follow with more (much more) detail later. I've got enough blog material for the rest of the year, maybe. …

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Gibberings Grim and Ghastly

On May 3, 2022May 3, 2022 By Eric Peterson1 Comment

The Sorcerer is minor Gilbert & Sullivan. It was the first full-length 'Savoy opera', although they'd done a Christmas pantomime (Thespis) and they didn't really take off as powerhouses until their next show, HMS Pinafore. But there is much to like about Sorcerer, especially its tuneful score. My friend Gary Slavin is a very talented …

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Hernias and Spiked Teapots

On May 1, 2022 By Eric PetersonLeave a comment

Some bitzies to get you caught up before I describe this bizarro 4-day weekend. Let's see: We've been rehearsing for next weekend's QUO concert. A few weeks ago, we had an organizational kerfuffle where our wonderful assistant conductor up and quit. She raised some valid concerns about how the orchestra deals with trans and non-binary …

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Fandom

On April 26, 2022April 26, 2022 By Eric PetersonLeave a comment

I know I'm way behind in blogging. I kept almost blogging, and then thinking nothing I had to blog about was of interest to anyone. This is a writer's trap, I know, and also made me wonder if it was a sign of depression. And then I thought, "no, it's not that my life is …

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Oscar the Grouch

On March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 By Eric PetersonLeave a comment

Some years, we make the effort, and this was one. After the Oscar Nominations, I printed out the list and we made a good faith effort to see all the big stuff. By this past weekend we'd seen all of the Animated Features, most of the acting nominations (sorry, Penelope Cruz), and all the best …

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Crumbling Eyeballs

On March 26, 2022 By Eric Peterson2 Comments

So, last October, I was warming up at home for a concert that night and suddenly I got floaters in my right eye. I'd never had them before, but I knew what they were. This was like having a tangle of hair wafting vaguely back and forth. "Well, fuck", I opined. So I scheduled an …

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Sproing

On March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 By Eric PetersonLeave a comment

As a kid, I had a book of 'B.C.' comics. Alas, a quick Google does not find this particular strip, but BC is standing in snow, and a flower sprouts right beside him with a "sproing" sound effect. Flower has a little bit of snow on top of it. BC: looks at flower Flower: Sproing …

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West Side Story 2021

On March 6, 2022March 6, 2022 By Eric PetersonLeave a comment

We saw it! We really liked it! I'm somewhat surprised that C liked it as much as he did - he's the first to not like new versions because they're not identical to the old ones. But it's really good. I don't think it supplants the 1961 version, delighted to have both of them. Interesting, …

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Eric Peterson.  Conductor, hornist, singer, New Yorker.  Happily and proudly gay, unhappily a new widower.  Knit and ice-skate for fun.

Blogged as “Stan Harding” over at Livejournal from 2003-2020.  Now we’re here.

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