Published poet for over 25 years. Record collector and classic jazz/big (& small) band enthusiast, primarily of music of the 1920s to early 1940s. Independent thinker (as opposed to opinionated thinker – at least, I think so).
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The Observation Post 
Mary Clark 8:44 pm on March 28, 2011 Permalink |
Thanks for your comment on my post in Speak Without Interruption. My screen name there is “write2bfree”
I’ve enjoyed your poetry and bookmarked your blog.
Mary C
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mistermuse 9:21 pm on March 28, 2011 Permalink |
Thank you – I’d forgotten that your SWI post was the first upon which I commented almost 3 months ago. Since then, I’ve been so active with SWI that I’ve practically abandoned my own Observation Post!
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literaryeyes 8:12 pm on December 23, 2014 Permalink
I left SWI years ago. Too cluttered, too much ranting and raving.
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Mélanie 5:46 am on December 23, 2014 Permalink |
excellent blog, glad to have come across it… my very best, tons of inspiration and friendly greetings from Toulouse(Airbus City!), France, “old Europe”… cheers! 🙂 Mélanie
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mistermuse 10:25 am on December 23, 2014 Permalink |
Good to hear from you. I’ve been to Paris, but never made la treck to Toulouse. I love “old Europe” – both my wife and I have ancestral roots there.
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Mélanie 11:50 am on December 23, 2014 Permalink |
merci! 🙂 we lived in Paris for several years and it’s great – as a tourist… 😉 glad to hear you love “old Europe” – it’s been “smart” Rumsfeld’s expression after France and other Western European countries opposed the illegal war in Iraq!)… America is a melting pot and ALL the white Americans have European roots and origins. Toulouse is the European capital of space and aviation, situated 2h-drive from the French-Catalan Pyrénées and the Mediterranean sea; 3h-drive from Barcelona, Spain, olé! 🙂
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mistermuse 1:37 pm on December 23, 2014 Permalink |
One of the best things about being a tourist in Europe is the chance to visit multiple countries in a relatively short time frame – not that “If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Belgium” is ideal, but it beats not going at all. My favorite countries? Switzerland for the scenery, and Ireland for the people (I may be “biased” because we speak a common language & I have relatives there!).
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The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap 10:11 am on April 3, 2015 Permalink |
Haha, on the last part. The best of disclaimers. Like your “about” = short and sweet. Nice to meet you. 🙂
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mistermuse 11:05 am on April 3, 2015 Permalink |
It’s a pleasure to meet you as well. Will look forward to checking in on your posts from time to time, and I invite you to do the same here.
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Cardboard Express 9:36 am on June 20, 2015 Permalink |
Hi there! I just wanted to say that you have an incredible blog, and that I find your poems and writing to be both refreshing and apt.
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mistermuse 10:09 am on June 20, 2015 Permalink |
Thank you! You have excellent taste. 🙂
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Osyth 7:07 am on July 27, 2015 Permalink |
Just found you by dint of your liking a couple of things on my Blog. I need to take a closer look at yours but I suspect a sneaky follow follows 🙂
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mistermuse 10:03 am on July 27, 2015 Permalink |
Please don’t look too close because I can’t stand the pressure 😦
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Cynthia Jobin 12:12 pm on November 8, 2015 Permalink |
Thank you for all the “likes” I find from you on my blog today. I’ve just been browsing here and thoroughly entertained. I share your taste in music and light verse, I think. I’ll be back!
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mistermuse 4:26 pm on November 8, 2015 Permalink |
Thanks very much for the comment. As you may have noticed, I only post every 5 days in order to catch up on my sleep, so I’ll be “looking” for you next on Nov. 10. Of course, if you want to come back before then, I’ll leave the door open if you promise to enter quietly and not wake me up. 🙂
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carmen 9:51 am on December 12, 2015 Permalink |
I see, mistermuse, that you have ancestors in Ireland – me, too! (I’m a ‘ginger’ – although it’s considerably darker than it used to be – , two daughters are, and five of the eleven grandchildren. . 😉 )
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mistermuse 10:50 am on December 12, 2015 Permalink |
I’m only a ‘ginger’ when I get a sunburn on the top of my half-bald head. I suppose I could get a red wig, but then I’d have to die my mustache red to match. It hardly seems worth the trouble (no offence intended). 🙂
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carmen 5:44 pm on December 14, 2015 Permalink |
I’ve been reading through your site, mister muse. It’ll be awhile before I finish; I’m only up to Feb/10. . but I like what I’m reading! I can see why you’re a published poet; I also liked the Western short. All good!
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mistermuse 6:08 pm on December 14, 2015 Permalink |
Carmen, all I can say (other than to express my sincere gratitude) is that you must be a glutton for punishment!
I’d like to return the favor by checking out your blog (if you have one), but I’m not very computer-savvy, so you’ll have to ‘spell it out for me’ in order for me to find it. In any case, it’s a pleasure to exchange comments.
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carmen 6:43 pm on December 14, 2015 Permalink |
I think you subscribed the other day. . . crazyforshore (that’s me!)
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mistermuse 1:05 am on December 15, 2015 Permalink |
Thank you for the reminder. I’d forgotten the name “crazyforshore,” and clicking on “carmen” doesn’t take me to your blog, so I was stuck offshore, in a manner of speaking.
Anyway, it’s past my bedtime, so will get back to you after I catch some snores.
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VocareMentor 7:48 pm on December 18, 2015 Permalink |
I’m no music expert, let alone early Jazz, but a friend of mine shared some early music put out by The Mills Brothers. Wonderful stuff. My friend said how much he liked their early music but later they became more popular and ‘mainstream.’
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mistermuse 10:01 pm on December 18, 2015 Permalink |
The Mills Bros. weren’t the only ones who went mainstream after being jazz-oriented early in their careers. Bing Crosby also took that route (you probably wouldn’t even recognize his singing voice from the late 1920s-early 1930s). Frank Sinatra, on the other hand, went the opposite way and, I think it’s fair to say, left the more lasting legacy.
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Rashminotes 12:09 pm on June 24, 2016 Permalink |
Lovely blog! Look forward to reading many of your posts:)
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mistermuse 11:32 pm on August 15, 2016 Permalink |
Thank you. I apologize for overlooking your comment back in June.
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GP Cox 2:15 pm on August 15, 2016 Permalink |
Pleased to meet you.
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mistermuse 11:37 pm on August 15, 2016 Permalink |
Likewise. I enjoyed what I saw of your blog and look forward to checking it out further soon.
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D. Wallace Peach 1:17 pm on March 11, 2017 Permalink |
Short but sweet. I like the idea of being an independent thinker over an opinionated thinker. I’m all for that too, though I’m full of opinions! Ha ha. I’m glad we connected. 🙂
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mistermuse 8:53 pm on March 11, 2017 Permalink |
Thanks, Diana. Though your compliment was about my “About,” I’m “short but sweet” myself (just so you know — ha ha). 😦
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Notes To Ponder 9:02 am on December 6, 2017 Permalink |
Don’t judge me by what I’m about to do – started poking around your blog and remembered “Pink” https://notestoponder.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/a-z-poetry-p-is-for-pink/
Hoping you forgive the impulse and know your perspective intrigues me.
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mistermuse 9:27 am on December 6, 2017 Permalink |
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Notes To Ponder 9:30 am on December 6, 2017 Permalink
Yikes, the link is a dud. Help me out,
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mistermuse 12:29 pm on December 6, 2017 Permalink |
It’s just a clip of an old song titled THINK PINK. No biggie (it’s the thought that counts — ha ha).
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pendantry 4:40 am on February 28, 2018 Permalink |
Hi 🙂
I couldn’t find a ‘contact’ feature on your blog. I hope you don’t mind me trying to reach you through this ‘comment’ (you can always delete it!)
I have a favour to ask…
I’ve been trying to figure out how to reach folks who don’t have their Gravatars set up in the way I suggest in my ‘Using Gravatar…’ post. It’s catch-22: when I see a Gravatar that’s not set up, I usually have no way to contact that person to suggest that they visit that article!
So, in order to stretch the reach of this post, I would be most grateful if you would consider linking to, or even ‘reblogging’ the article.
As a reminder, it’s here:
https://wibble.blog/2018/02/27/using-gravatar-to-build-traffic/
Thanks very much for listening!
(s) ‘pendantry’
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mistermuse 9:30 am on February 28, 2018 Permalink |
Thanks for your request. It’s not that I’m unwilling to help you, but that I’m too computer-illiterate to see a way of doing what you ask. As I said in my first comment to your Gravatar post, “what’s easy for others on the computer is seldom easy for me.”
If it’s any help, I’ll leave your comment in place so that any reader who wishes to do so can click on the link you referred to. Sorry I can’t do more.
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pendantry 3:25 pm on February 28, 2018 Permalink
No worries. Thank you!
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SoundEagle 🦅ೋღஜஇ 11:29 pm on October 21, 2019 Permalink |
Hi mistermuse,
Like Colin (pendantry), I also couldn’t locate a ‘contact’ feature on your blog, and therefore have arrived here to greet and meet you.
Thank you for recently liking one of my posts. It has been a while since I last commented on your blog. If you have been wondering about or noticing the scant presence of SoundEagle, then please kindly be informed that I have been away from the blogosphere for a long time until quite recently, as a result of having to deal with the daily demands of filial piety and caring duties, as explicated in the post lovingly crafted and published as a special eulogy entitled “Khai & Khim: For Always and Beyond Goodbye”, published at https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/khai-khim-for-always-and-beyond-goodbye/
I look forward to your comment and feedback at the said eulogy. Please take your time to read it as it is very involved and multidisciplinary. Moreover, this multimedia eulogy is very extensive and is best viewed on the large screen of a desktop or laptop.
By the way, there are several of my musical compositions and arrangements that you can relish in the eulogy there. Since you are a lover and collector of music, I would like to inform you that you can instantly jump and listen to each and every one of the musical tracks by using the navigational menu entitled “Music Dedicated to Khim” located at the start of the said post.
May you find this autumn very much to your liking and highly conducive to your writing, independent thinking and music collecting!
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mistermuse 2:40 pm on October 22, 2019 Permalink
Thanks for your comment, Soundeagle. Unfortunately, I very much doubt that I’ll have time to “listen to each and every one of the musical tracks,” but I’ll make every effort to read your special eulogy post in the next few days. Like you, I have “the daily demands of filial piety and caring duties (a live-in, unable to support herself, adult daughter with myalgic encephalomyelitis), so there are limits to (and demands on) my available time.
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SoundEagle 🦅ೋღஜஇ 6:46 am on November 5, 2019 Permalink
Dear mistermuse,
Thank you for commenting at https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/khai-khim-for-always-and-beyond-goodbye/
I would like to inform you that I have already replied to you there with a very bespoke comment. Please come over to see it.
Happy November to you!
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mistermuse 3:47 pm on November 5, 2019 Permalink
I appreciate your comment this morning, both here and on your own blog.
Happy November to you as well.
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restlessjo 4:46 pm on April 11, 2018 Permalink |
But no clues where ‘home’ might have been? 🙂 🙂
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mistermuse 7:03 pm on April 11, 2018 Permalink |
🙂
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geno 3:44 am on July 2, 2018 Permalink |
you’re welcome:
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mistermuse 8:16 am on July 2, 2018 Permalink |
Prost!
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tubularsock 12:32 pm on November 8, 2019 Permalink |
MM, Tubularsock thought Tubularsock followed you already but just discovered that space aliens had stolen that information.
However Tubularsock prefer documentaries like Abbot and Costello. Something that is factual, you know.
Enjoy your work.
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mistermuse 1:15 pm on November 8, 2019 Permalink |
Thanks. I’ve had problems with the Follow thing — not to mention the Like thing — too. The WordPress gremlins never rest.
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