Winds Howling

Dogs chasing a guy on a motorcycle in Browning, Montana

King John of England was buried in Worcester Cathedral in 1216.

I first listened to this symphony last week while waiting for a book club meeting to start (we read “No Country for Old Men”).

Over the past decade I’ve been coming slowly uncoupled from any awareness of recently released music.

Three days ago, I watched my favorite movie, “Jurassic Park,” with live musical accompaniment from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

He leaned and spat.

A little after 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sterling Heights cut the ribbon on its latest project: the Sterling Heights Athletic Hub.

Charley Crockett — Clovis Released July 3 This was a not-bad serving of nostalgia-inflected country music that only occasionally sparkled, mostly skating by on good vibes alone.

A year ago today, I unknowingly embarked on a mission to read a biography of every king and queen who ever ruled England, of which there are about forty, if you take the low number.

I first listened to Symphony No. 3 on Monday on a walk to the park, where I thought it would have its best chance to impress me.

We’ve crossed into the rump end of America’s 250th year, but some towns are still getting their fireworks in, including my own, Clinton Township.

I’d like to announce a feature that’s been quietly operating on this site for a couple of weeks now: the Now page.

With this symphony I’ve reached the end of the first grouping of Haydn’s earliest symphonies, as laid out by Academy of Ancient Music in the notes to their complete recordings.

A recent xkcd comic about the deepest manmade holes in the world had me flying to Wikipedia to learn more about these holes.

Today is the 250th birthday of America, that is, the semiquincentennial date of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

I first listened to this on June 14, the same day I first listened to Symphony No. 32, but never wrote it up until now.

As of today, each post on this blog has a section at the bottom where you can leave a comment, anonymously if you wish.

Clinton Township has officially greenlit a new park, called Unity Park, which has its origins in local controversy over Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day.

Since writing about the “Greetings from Sterling Heights” mural the city is putting on the side of its new pickleball building, I’ve been in touch with the artist painting it, Wendy Popko, and she pointed out a few things I got wrong in my analysis of the…

Morning at Silver Lake State Park Campground

Pleased to be among the dunes

North Grove Brewers in Montague, Michigan

Rest stop on our way to camp at Silver Lake

I’ve listened to this one three times now: first on a walk to a park, second while waiting for a flight home in Phoenix, and third for good measure on the way to McDonald’s.

There’s a new mural being painted in Sterling Heights.

A new little park has been proposed for Clinton Township, just a couple miles down the road from me.

My reflection in the nose of The Very Reverend Novatus Benzing (1869-1939).

First thing that caught my eye in Phoenix, Arizona — St.

Lakeside Mall closed two years ago.

I decided to switch it up for this one.

I first listened through this one on June 6, but it was only today that I got around to fleshing my notes into paragraphs, so I took another listen.

I’m trying to finish all 14 of the original James Bond books in the span of a year.

I listened to this one on Sunday, in between a session of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and loading the dishwasher.

Here are some pictures from my walk today at Lakeside Island Park, an interesting patch of nature near me — one of the few patches reachable by foot.

Two days ago, I checked out the ITC Trail in Sterling Heights for the first time.

This is the first delayed Haydn symphony post.

We recently got to spend a couple of nights in Cleveland.

Cam and I listened to Haydn’s next symphony on my lunch break.

I’m still following James Webster’s chronology from the Hogwood recording notes, so it’s Symphony No. 4 next, not Symphony No. 3.

Back with Haydn’s Symphony No. 2, clocking in at a crisp 8-and-a-half minutes.

Am I actually going to listen to all 106 symphonies by Joseph Haydn?

I recently finished the latest book in my series of biographies about all the kings and queens of England.

Cam and I recently took a walk through downtown Mount Clemens, a walkable zone at the edge of the otherwise suburban and rural Macomb County.

Lighthouses in Cleveland, Ohio

Interesting inclined park in Cleveland

Sunset

I recently got my hands on a copy of “The Clinton River Chronicles,” an obscure local history movie from 1995.

Great restaurant menu cover, in Mexicantown, Detroit

This dog nosed its way into the exam room to keep me company while I wait for the optometrist

Started this the other day—supposed to be a forerunner of modern espionage/spy stories.