Report From GrammyTown Oh-Ten
I posted a short reflection on my Grammy attendance experience over on the kneebody blog. For those interested in such a thing, here is the linkipoo.
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Please Eat My Jazz Dessert
To my beloved listening audience, I present a preview track from the new solo album “Alphabets and Consequences”. This is an outrageous romp on the jazz standard “All the Things You Are”, which is to say, it is a somber meditation on the jazz standard “All the Things You Are”. Most of the album is pretty dark and in that context this piece serves as a bit of comic relief, but I present it to you here decontextualized, like eating dessert in the middle of the night.
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Viewer Mail
Although I have let this blog decay into a virtual Detroit over the last few months (sorry Detroit), I was quite pleased with the consistent level of helpful feedback I have been receiving from my dedicated readership. So, as you can imagine, I was quite displeased to receive this email from friend of the show Matt Rubin the other day:
Hey dude,
You’ve gotta get the spam in your blog comments under control. I get email updates each time someone else posts a comment on an article that I’ve commented on. The latest is from “Cheap hotels in venice“
Yours in jazz and burgers,
Matt
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Well Matt, maybe you and your cronies over at Twenty Dollars think it’s your job to control what feedback people can give you. But here at Adam Benjamin Blog Corporation Enterprises we like to give everyman his due, so I’m going to take today’s post to highlight some recent useful comments.
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Sure, sometimes it seems a little odd that three people named James Kalis and two named James Orel enjoyed my post on Temple Grandin. And their writing style is eerily similar to Joseph Tan and the erstwhile Jimmy Banger. Here’s lookin’ at you Mr. Banger! But for every post like those there’s one that really hits home, like the comment “Good informative post. I liked it a lot” by user CheckHerpesSymptoms dot com.
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My post on teaching at the Banff International Jazz Workshop got even more feedback. Many users agreed with me so heartily that they copied my exact words in their comments! When I wittily pontificate about the great experience I had with “Surely the crisp Canadian air and high-quality catering cannot fully explain this phenomenon”, that’s one thing, but to hear the same phrase coming from dedicated reader NaturalHairLossTreatments dot com just casts it in a whole new light!
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And finally, let me share this corker of a joke that user Millipo11 shared in response to the announcement of my new solo piano album:
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“A police officer stops a blonde for speeding and asks her very nicely if he could see her license.
She replied in a huff, “I wish you guys could get you
regards
Riegel”
Man I’m not going to forget that one any time soon! And to top it off, Millipo11 added 49 useful links to his joke as well, for such great websites as Miracle Cabbage Soup Diet, Diets for Quick Weight Loss, Maple Syrup Diet, and Miracle Cabbage Soup Diet! That’s the thing about Millipo11 - he’s as informative as he is funny!
So keep the feedback coming, dedicated readers. And remember, the best blog fans read each other’s comments as well, visit their websites, and freely volunteer their credit card information and social security numbers!
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