The joys of the “heat pump” in a cold snap… AccuWeather says lunch time temperature is 12° outside, after dropping to zero overnight. Thermostat set at 63 Living room thermometer reads 57(Dressing in layers.) Adding a third humidifier has brought…
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A seasonal-photo blog?
October 1 photos … just something to keep this blog alive, although it is hardly journalism or just about journalism anymore… I am posting this with the WordPress app on my aging Android phone for the first time in a…
When Hearst sang “Cuba, cheer up!”
As the U.S.A. reopens a Havana embassy, and Puerto Rico struggles with financial problems, perhaps it’s time to look back at a century of history — and the news media’s sometimes multimedia role in setting agendas that people might, in…
Grayson County Fiddlers’ Convention 2015
Two days of intermittent thunderstorms, rain and high winds didn’t chase away all the competitors — or spectators — at the 2015 Grayson County Fiddlers’ Convention in Elk Creek… although the Friday night storm winds did play havoc with the…
Klondike weather? Timely 100-year-old poetry
With the thermometer hitting record single digits here in Southwest Virginia, the weatherman threatening negative double-digits overnight, and a Facebook conversation getting me thinking of Robert W. Service, I went looking for my old LP of Debby McClatchy singing a…
Making MOOC music in a second mode
My exploration of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continues with two music courses offered by the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I’ve completed a film history class and a communication science class, but slipped out the side door of…
Sing a song of journalistic responsibilities…
I wonder if you have to audition for the Society of Professional Journalists chapter at Columbia? I wonder if there will be a sing-along at the national SPJ convention? With just a little more pitch control, this could be journoGlee!…
Happy New Year 2012
Enough of this 1930s and 1940s nostalgia… Here’s something that’s “only” 30 years old, The Roches getting a handle on a seasonal standard. Very, very hard to believe that was so many years ago. But remembering it was enough to…
Bob Stepno's Other Journalism 