The floating bookshop was rained-out today.
The past two nights I've had the great fortune to catch phases of a concert given at Royal Albert Hall by guitarist Joe Bonamassa. Look for it on PBS. Tape it to avoid pledge breaks. Bonamassa was born in Utica, New York, where his parents owned a guitar shop. He was playing by the age of four and by seven he knew songs by masters Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimi Hendrix note for note. He is now 33. I'm embarrassed to say this is the first I've ever heard of him - he has ten albums in print. Here is a link to a clip from that show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBgNuP86BNk&feature=related Enjoy.
If you're sick of the Charlie Sheen saga, here are two items in the same vein involving people who should have been held to a higher standard than a Hollywood star. In 1961, at the age of 29, Ted Kennedy rented out an entire brothel in Chile. Among his guests were one of his Harvard professors and hardcore communists. Given the Liberal Lion's reputation, this should surprise no one. In fact, it is right in line with the behavior of many politicians from both sides of the aisle.
J. Michael Bailey is a professor of Psychology at Northwestern, one of the finest universities in the Midwest, considered the equal of any Ivy League school. He teaches a course on Human Sexuality. In late February he had an optional, after class session wherein a woman disrobed, laid out on a towel, and was worked over with an electric phallic device by her boyfriend. 100 students attended. I hope the young males present found an outlet for their arousal, preferably back in their dorm rooms. Sometimes I am amazed at how things have changed on the human level.
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