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Dave the Spazz of WFMU’s Beware of the Blog just posted

Thursday night I had the good fortune of spending an evening with Kent Ippolito, who is one of Fredericksburg’s foremost treasures. He is an amazing musician, cartoonist, and person.

In stark contrast to the Uncle John Scruggs video, check out this video of Jack Johnson’s Jazz band performing “Tiger Rag” on December 21, 1929 in the great city of New York, NY.

I do enjoy working at a university, for on a regular basis new cultural gems come my way.

Thanks to my buddy Luke the Drifter for turning me on to a bunch of videos at his place last night. Did you know that minimalist composer Philip Glass did the music for a series of short films for the iconic kids show entitled Geometry of Circles back in 1979?

Trippy trippy... I grew up on a steady diet of this stuff, and knowing that allows me to understand my present sorry state a whole lot better. And may I add how delighted I am to have cited the Muppet Wiki?