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Saturday, December 21, 2019

No . . .

https://shittygifts.org/portfolio/same-shit-different-year/

. . . kidding, Time . . .

(from https://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/)
". . . It’s a country where many who felt powerless have a new champion, where much frustration has given way to excitement and where politics has become the greatest show on earth. Here men in combat helmets and military assault rifles now patrol the streets outside a golden residential tower in midtown Manhattan. And almost every day at about the same time they let pass a street performer who wears no pants, tight white underwear and cowboy boots, so he can sing a song in the lobby for the television cameras with Trump’s name written in red and blue on his butt. It’s an America of renewed hope and paralyzing fear, a country few expected less than a year ago. Because of Donald John Trump, whatever happens next, it will never be like it was before. . . "

(from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-mocks-greta-thunberg-after-she-wins-time-person-year-n1100531)
". . . President Donald Trump mocked teen climate activist Greta Thunberg on Twitter Thursday after she was named Time magazine's Person of the Year, calling her win "ridiculous" and suggesting she take anger management classes. . ."So ridiculous," Trump tweeted. "Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!". . ."

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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Completed . . .

. . . the composition

How will we be remembered?
Will our names live on?
Will the seeds that we sowed
Reap the glorious fruit we intended?

Adulatory panegyrics
Vituperary insolence
Commendatory highly glowing complements
Enthusiastic lionizing
Discourteous ill-manneredness
Impertinence and disrespect

It’s so funny how interpretations are made
When the color’s transformed by each factor
In every foundation that’s laid

Why would I ask more?
Why even ask at all?
Self-indulgence?
One higher purpose
I had in mind

All the years
All the times
All events that have all transpired now
Seem impotent
At the least, weakened
Things that we fought for so long ago

Insolence
©2019 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Saturday, January 5, 2019

Burning . . .

. . . Grey

. . . to welcome a new year. . .

OHO, live at Bourbon Street on the Beach in Ocean City, MD
December 31, 2018

Burning Grey
OHO (Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak) Live, December 31, 21018

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Friday, January 26, 2018

The Year . . .

. . . of living sloppily . . .

. . . A weekend here, a weekend there, and pretty soon you're talking about months. Trips on alternating weekends to la casa en la playa result in perpetual packing. At least packing something. A duly designated corner serves the purpose of a staging area for things like a drill; an occasional crockpot and/or panini maker; a bottle (or two or three) of wine; coats, jackets, hats or shoes that make be appropriate for the current forecast and maybe small furniture items, a lamp or a storage box. It may make the local residence a bit more unkempt than previously, but it sure is fun.

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Friday, January 12, 2018

New . . .

. . . year music . . .

The old and the musty
The bitter and tired
Useless toxic clingings
Of a bygone day
Serve no lover of life
No matter the amount
Of rationalization . . .

Heart Purge One
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Brand New. . .

(from https://www.npr.org/2017/12/14/570190218/new-year-to-bring-new-test-for-trump-administration-on-key-russia-sanctions)
". . . The New Year will bring a new test for President Trump and the United States' relationship with Russia. . . Five years ago, President Obama signed a bill imposing sanctions on a group of powerful people there charged with involvement in the death of a Russian lawyer who uncovered a $230 million tax fraud scheme — and then died in government custody. The sanctions infuriated Russian President Vladimir Putin. . . Since then, the State Department has put more people on its sanctions list, usually at the beginning of each year, and the choice it makes next month about who or how many people it adds could be consequential. . . "This is the big test for Donald Trump about whether he is really a friend of Putin's or whether he's a tough guy as to whether he actually adds names," said Bill Browder, a financier-turned-advocate who pushed for the sanctions. . . "This is highly significant and highly pregnant with meaning whatever he does or doesn't do, if he really wants to take the wind out of the sails of this collusion narrative" . . ."

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Saturday, January 7, 2017

A Way . . .

. . . with words

(from https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/dave-barrys-year-in-review-trump-and-the-hideous-monstrosity-that-was-2016/2016/12/29/17c84a14-b7d6-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html?utm_term=.1504a691feba)
". . . Then there was 2003, when a person named “Paris Hilton” suddenly became a major international superstar, despite possessing a level of discernible talent so low as to make the Kardashians look like the Jackson 5. . ."

". . . There was 2006, when the vice president of the United States — who claimed he was attempting to bring down a suspected quail — shot a 78-year-old man in the face, only to be exonerated after an investigation revealed that the victim was an attorney. . ."

". . . If years were movies, 2016 would be “Plan 9 From Outer Space.” If years were relatives, 2016 would be the uncle who shows up at your Thanksgiving dinner wearing his underpants on the outside. . ."

". . . (In 2016) American race relations reached their lowest point since ... okay, since 2015. . ."

". . . On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton is widely presumed to be the front-runner based on being a historic woman with a lengthy résumé of service to the nation who, with her husband, Bill, has serviced the nation for decades to the tune of several hundred million dollars. . ."

". . . Democratic Party’s controversial formula for allocating “superdelegates,” which is as follows:
● 57 percent go to Clinton.
● The remaining 43 percent also go to Clinton. . ."

". . . Meanwhile the Clinton campaign is dealing with a steady stream of WikiLeaks emails suggesting that the Clinton Foundation is dedicated to humanitarian relief in the same sense that the Soprano family was dedicated to waste management. . ."

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Friday, December 30, 2016

Old . . .

. . . & New

. . . out goes the former and in comes the latter. . .

Pre-Party or not. . .

(The OHO pre-party at Bourbon Street On the Beach has been cancelled)
But you can still enjoy the music at www.ohomusic.com . . .

and Right HERE!! . . .

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Auld Lang Syne . . .

. . . no matter how hard we wish next year to be good, prosperous, happy, healthy or joyous, a year is a year. Like life, most of it will depend upon our choices. And as we well know we must go on when we lose people in our lives. But some part of them must and will live on.

This poem is for Paul Penwell, a longtime Frederick are open mike participant; regular performer and workshop presenter, blues guitarist and songwriter Marjorie Thompson; and Ricardo, the Divining Sage(Richard White), guitarist extraordinaire and an old soul who helped many . . .

ABSENT FRIENDS

It was not cold but overcast,

A neutral afternoon for Christmas,

Not pointing anywhere,

Not suggesting anything,

Limned by a room splashed full of

Scarlet and white poinsettias;

Neutral plants from Mexico,

When I heard a guitar line

Falter and fade, ascending;

We have our exits and

Our entrances…

Another year –

Auld Lang Syne –

For the sake of times gone by

We take a cup of kindness

Or a glass of wine or whiskey

And salute old friends;

Our cast of characters

Changes, despite our

Holding on tightly...

So, to absent friends, who

Enriched us here, thank you!

But you moved on too abruptly,

Though maybe leaving us with

Sage counsel, or echoes –

Whispers; notes rippling and

Ringing through our memories...

-Rod Deacey

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Friday, July 18, 2014

Available . . .

Wasn't sure I wanted to release a solo piano collection next year or not. I think I may. The piano's tuned. Some good takes are in the can. Still working on some things though, like . . .

Available
(work-in-progress by Ray Jozwiak for an upcoming digital download release)

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My latest solo release, '2014' of original, instrumental piano music, can be downloaded digitally at:

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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Honestly . . .

. . . can you always remember stuff like this? . . .

. . . I can't . . .

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_solstice)
The summer solstice occurs when the tilt of a planet's semi-axis, in either the northern or the southern hemisphere, is most inclined toward the star (sun) that it orbits. Earth's maximum axial tilt toward the sun is 23° 26'. This happens twice each year, at which times the sun reaches its highest position in the sky as seen from the north or the south pole.

The summer solstice occurs during a hemisphere's summer. This is northern solstice in the northern hemisphere and the southern solstice in the southern hemisphere. Depending on the shift of the calendar, the summer solstice occurs some time between December 20 and December 23 each year in the southern hemisphere and between June 20 and June 22 in the northern hemisphere.

When on a geographic pole, the sun reaches its greatest height, the moment of solstice, it can be noon only along that longitude which at that moment lies in the direction of the sun from the pole. For other longitudes, it is not noon. Noon has either passed or has yet to come. Hence the notion of a solstice day is useful. The term is colloquially used like midsummer to refer to the day on which solstice occurs. The summer solstice day has the longest period of daylight – except in the polar regions, where daylight is continuous, from a few days to six months around the summer solstice.

Worldwide, interpretation of the event has varied among cultures, but most recognize the event in some way with holidays, festivals, and rituals around that time with themes of religion or fertility.

Solstice is derived from the Latin words sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still).

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My latest solo release, '2014', can be downloaded digitally at:

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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

A Very Good Year . . .

. . . and also . . .

(A digital-download-only solo, instrumental piano music
release by me [Ray Jozwiak])

The track list is:
1. My Mystery
2. Compound Fracture
3. Harbor Noon
4. Highs & Lows
5. Not Like Me
6. Ognat
7. Stick To Your Guns
8. Integrity
9. Exactly
10. Your Voice
11. Baggage

© 2013 Raymond M. Jozwiak
All compositions written and performed by me [Ray Jozwiak]

and it's Available at http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/RayJozwiak

Ognat
(instrumental) ©2013 Raymond M. Jozwiak
from '2014'

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OHO's "Ocean City Ditty," the CD single is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oho4
(and, if you're in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. in Catonsville, MD)

My latest solo release, '2014', can be downloaded digitally at:

(or you can copy-and-paste this URL directly to
your browser: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rayjozwiak4)

Also, be sure to visit:
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