David Bruce Anecdotes
This email includes a canto from my retelling of Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY, which has 100 cantos.
Anecdotes are usually short humorous stories. Sometimes they are thought-provoking or informative, not amusing.
Problem-Solving
• Managers and players have ways of letting umpires know that they want a game to be called on account of darkness or rain. Casey Stengel’s team was ahead in the second game of a doubleheader, but the opposing team was threatening to take the lead, and Casey wanted the game called on account of darkness to ensure a win for his team. Therefore, he called for a relief pitcher — using Morse Code to signal with his flashlight. In another game, Herman “Germany” Schaefer thought that a game should be called on account of rain, so when he went to play in the outfield, he wore a raincoat over his uniform.
• The great batter Ty Cobb was also respected as a base runner. When Connie Mack’s Philadelphia Athletics and Mr. Cobb’s Detroit Tigers were preparing for an important series, Mr. Mack went over strategy, discussing what to do against certain opposing players. At one point, he asked catcher Wally Shang, “Suppose that the Tigers were one run behind with Cobb on second base and you knew that he was going to steal on the next pitch. What would you do?” Mr. Shang replied, “I’d fake a throw to third, and then hold on to the ball and tag him as he came sliding into home plate.”
• Women’s soccer coach Dan Tobias of the University of Arizona started his team practice every day at 6:45 a.m. It’s not a punishment. Star player Brianna Caceres said, “He doesn’t want us bummed out about the test we just took or distracted by other stuff. He wants us to have a good practice and then be energized for the academics and the rest of the day.” Of course, soccer practice causes lots of sweat, so Tucson Weekly columnist Tom Danehy, who has an inquiring mind, had to ask her, “What about the funk?” Brianna answered, “Change of clothes, lots of body spray.”
• Once, when the Utah Jazz were slumping and losing, they had an away game against the Charlotte Hornets. Point guard John Stockton told big scorer Karl Malone before the game that he had listened to a Charlotte sports program, and a Charlotte player had said that Karl Malone was overrated as a player. This got Mr. Malone mad, and he scored 52 points that night, ending the Jazz’ losing streak. After the game, Mr. Stockton confessed that no Charlotte player had disrespected Mr. Malone. Instead, Mr. Stockton had made the story up to motivate Mr. Malone.
• Sports director Doug Wilson was faced with a problem—how to create a camera shot that would reveal the movement and the feel of skating. He solved the problem by putting a cameraperson in a wheelchair on the ice and having a skater push the wheelchair. By the way, ice skating Olympic gold medalist and announcer Dick Button is openly bald nowadays, but earlier he wore a toupee. Once, he was on the ice demonstrating a move for television when his toupee came off during a fast move. Like the trouper he is, he carried on.
• When Paul “Bryant” Bryant coached for the University of Kentucky, a fumble occurred in a game against the University of Tennessee. Unfortunately, the fumble occurred near the Kentucky bench, where a box of footballs was knocked over. The footballs rolled onto the playing field, and the football players recovered them. Because the referees had no way of telling which football was the real game ball, they awarded possession to the University of Tennessee — whose players had recovered five of the nine footballs on the field.
• For a while, major-league baseball player Kevin Mitchell had an unusual haircut: one with three strips shaved on the sides of his head. The three strips symbolically represented his first three hits in the major leagues. By the way, Mr. Mitchell is a problem-solver. While playing in the San Diego Padres’ sometimes-chilly Candlestick Park, he used to put pepper between his toes on cold nights. Why? He explains, “When your feet sweat and the pepper dissolves, it makes your feet warm.”
• During a golf tournament, Walter Hagen hit his ball into a paper bag that had blown into a sand trap. After asking for a ruling, he was told that he couldn’t take a free drop and that his options were to play the ball or to take a one-stroke penalty for an unplayable lie. Mr. Hagen responded by lighting a cigarette, taking a drag on it, then dropping the cigarette on the paper bag. The bag burned up, and Mr. Hagen played the lie.
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Chapter 13: The Suicides (Inferno)
Not yet had Nessus reached the other bank of the river of boiling blood than Dante and Virgil were walking in a forest that did not have a path. No green leaves could be seen, but only black leaves. No smooth branches could be seen, but only entangled and crooked branches. No fruit could be seen, but only poisonous thorns. No grubby wood such as this exists anywhere in the Land of the Living.
Here were the Harpies, who are half-human and half-bestial. Part of them is female and human, and part of them is a bird. With their human faces, they shriek, and with their wings, they fly.
“Remember where you are,” Virgil told Dante. “We have left the river of boiling blood, and soon we will be in a desert of burning sand. Right now, we are in the second of the three areas that punish those sinners who are guilty of violence. This wood is more remarkable than you think right now. Look carefully around you. I will not tell you what you are seeing because you would not believe my words.”
Dante looked, and he listened. All he saw were grubby shrubs, but he could hear the sounds of lament coming from somewhere — he knew not where — in addition to the shrieks of the Harpies. Puzzled by the sounds of lament, he stopped.
One of Virgil’s powers was being able to read Dante’s mind. He knew why Dante was puzzled, and so he said, “Break off one of the branches you see in this forest, and your puzzlement will vanish.”
Dante broke off a branch, and the place where the branch had been attached to the shrub oozed with blood. The blood bubbled, and a voice complained, “Why do you injure me by tearing off one of my branches? Why don’t you pity the pain I am suffering? All of us shrubs were human beings once, but even if we had been snakes you should show us more pity.”
Dante dropped the branch he had broken off.
Virgil said to the sinner whose branch had been broken off, “I knew that my companion would never believe with words alone what he is now seeing, so I urged him to break your branch. Unfortunately, even though I wrote about a similar event in my Aeneid, I knew that my companion would not believe unless he had direct experience.”
That is true, Virgil thought. In my Aeneid, Aeneas broke a branch and then the shrub began to bleed and to speak to him. It turned out that Polydorus, a Prince of Troy, was buried there. The prince was murdered with spears so the murderers could take his wealth. The body fell to the ground, and the spears took root and grew.
“Please, tell my companion who you were. He can keep your name alive in the Land of the Living. You need not be forgotten. My companion is still alive, and he will return to the Land of the Living.”
“Your words please me very much,” the shrub said. “I want to be remembered. My name is Pier delle Vigne — Peter of the Vines. I served the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II.”
Pay attention, Dante, Virgil thought. Remember who Frederick II is. Frederick II fought the Pope for control of Italy. He died in 1250, and we know that Frederick II ended up in the Inferno in a tomb with Farinata, so we know that he died an unrepentant sinner.
“I was the Chief of Staff to Frederick II,” Pier delle Vigne continued. “I controlled who got access to the Holy Roman Emperor. I also advised Frederick II — I advised him on whether something was good or bad. I served him so faithfully that I lost sleep through overwork as well as losing my life. Envy turned up in the court of Frederick II, who was my Caesar. Envy made all the others my enemies, and my enemies turned Frederick II — my Augustus — against me. False accusations were made about me, and they were believed. Even though I was loyal and just to Frederick II, I behaved unjustly against myself. When you return to the Land of the Living, tell everyone that I was loyal to my emperor. Tell everyone that I am here because of the blow that Envy gave me.”
Be careful, Dante, Virgil thought. Like other sinners in the Inferno, Pier delle Vigne has told his story in a very self-serving way. He is blaming Envy for his problems. Envy turned everyone against him. Envious people convinced Frederick II that Pier was disloyal to him, so he put Pier in prison. While in prison, Pier committed suicide. Of course, we know that Pier — not Envy — was the person who committed suicide. In addition, Pier delle Vigne overvalued Frederick II, whom he calls “Caesar” and “Augustus.” And because Pier is in the Inferno, we know that he undervalued God. Of course, although Pier delle Vigne was loyal to Frederick II during Pier’s life, he was disloyal to God when he committed suicide.
Virgil then said to Dante, “If you wish to know anything more, ask your questions now.”
“You may ask him questions,” Dante replied. “I am so overcome with pity for him that I cannot say anything more to him.”
Why are you overcome with pity? Virgil thought. Do you pity him because of the false accusations that envious people made against him? That kind of pity is acceptable. Or do you pity him because he committed suicide? That kind of pity is unacceptable. I hope that you are learning not to allow yourself to be scammed by these sinners who, after all, are exactly where they ought to be. I hope that you have learned something since you spoke with Francesca da Rimini.
And, Dante, you have much to learn here. You will be under attack one day. You will lose your political position, and you will be exiled. Like Pier delle Vigne, you will be discouraged and you will wonder whether life is worth living.
The main thing you can learn here is to not act like Pier delle Vigne. Pier delle Vigne committed suicide, and he ended up in the Inferno. If you, Dante, commit suicide when you are discouraged, you can end up in the same place as Pier delle Vigne.
I know that you will be sent into exile, and I know that you will be discouraged, but if you wish to stay away from eternal punishment in the Inferno, you must respond to your discouragement differently from the way that Pier delle Vigne responded to his discouragement.
As human beings, we have free will, and we can choose how we respond to disaster. We can give in to discouragement and commit suicide, or we can respond in a more courageous way.
Virgil then said to Pier delle Vigne, “So that my companion may keep your name, please tell him how souls become shrubs here, and please tell him whether a soul will ever leave these shrubs.”
“Briefly,” Pier said, “after a person commits suicide, Minos judges his soul and sends it here in Circle 7. The soul drops in this wood the way a seed drops. The soul germinates like a seed and grows into a shrub. The Harpies then feast on it, breaking its branches and causing it pain. By breaking a shrub’s branches, the Harpies give it an outlet through which to express grief as the blood comes bubbling from the wound.
“Like the other souls in the Inferno, we will be given our bodies on Judgment Day, but our soul will not be reunited with our body. Instead, our body will hang from our branches. We rejected our body, and therefore it will not be reunited with our soul.”
Here we have another contrapasso, Virgil thought. The suicides are the grubby shrubs of this wood. The suicides cannot even determine when they will talk; they can communicate only when one of their twigs or branches is broken because they use the resulting hole as a mouth until the blood congeals — the blood oozes from the wound the way that sap oozes from a broken twig or branch.
The punishment of the suicides is appropriate because by killing themselves, the suicides gave up the privilege of self-determination. As shrubs, the suicides have no free will because plants have no free will. This is appropriate because in life the suicides rejected free will by committing suicide.
Because the suicides gave up their privilege of self-determination, they no longer have self-determination in the Inferno. Minos throws their souls into Circle 7, and the souls sprout wherever they fall. As grubby shrubs, the suicides cannot move around, and they cannot even speak unless someone breaks off a twig or branch.
The suicides have no free will because they rejected the chance to use free will to solve their problems. The suicides rejected their bodies, so they will not be reunited with their bodies.
In life, the suicides mutilated themselves. Now, as shrubs, they can no longer mutilate themselves.
Just then, Virgil and Dante heard the sound of a hunt when dogs chase their prey. Two naked souls came running, crashing amidst the shrubs and breaking many branches, causing the souls who were the shrubs to cry out in pain.
One of the naked souls said, “I wish that death would come quickly.”
The other naked soul replied, “Lano, you did not run so quickly when you were in battle.”
I know who these sinners are, Virgil thought. They are Lano of the wealthy Maconi family and Giacomo da Sant’ Andrea. They are Profligates who violently wasted their wealth so they are here in the Circle that punishes the violent. Giacomo da Sant’ Andrea once deliberately set on fire several houses that he owned just because he wanted to. Lano of Siena violently wasted his wealth, and then he deliberately sought death in a 1287 battle; he could have escaped by retreating, but stayed to fight so that he would die. That is a kind of suicide.
The spendthrifts who are punished in Circle 4 merely wasted their wealth, while the profligates here in Circle 7 violently wasted their wealth and then courted death.
Tired, Giacomo da Sant’ Andrea hid himself among the shrubs, while Lano continued running. The black dogs that had been pursuing the two profligates found Giacomo da Sant’ Andrea and tore him to pieces, and then they carried away the pieces in their mouths.
While tearing apart Giacomo da Sant’ Andrea, the black dogs also broke many branches of the shrub, and Virgil brought Dante close so that he could hear the shrub complain: “Giacomo da Sant’ Andrea, why did you hide in me? You have brought me much pain because you brought to me the black dogs that tore my branches and took my leaves from me.”
Virgil asked the shrub, “Who are you?”
The shrub answered, “I am a Florentine who committed suicide by hanging myself in my home. The first patron of Florence was Mars, the Roman god of war. But Florence exchanged this patron for John the Baptist, whose image is stamped on the gold coins of Florence. Because of this, Mars swears that endless sorrow will come to Florence.”
HARPER REESE: MEMBER of VELVET GREEN and SUN BOATS, aka SUNBOATS
VELVET GREEN
Young funk band based in Athens, Ohio:
Cora Fitch — Vocals
Harper Reese — Guitar
Sam Debatin — Other Guitar
Liam Mcsteen — Keys
Mitch Spring — Bass
Shea Benezra – Drums
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Helen Widman: “Velvet Green Brings ‘Junk Funk’ Music to Athens” (Backdrop Magazine)
https://www.backdropmagazine.com/features/velvet-green-brings-junk-funk-music-to-athens
Velvet Green on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNG9lq575VEzZBO3jhf01CA
Velvet Green – Battle of the Bands 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhaWNOtKnDk
Velvet Green – Live at Halloween Block Party 2018, Athens, Ohio — LE FREAK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxbkxGo8PE0
Velvet Green @ The Union, July 3rd 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQDAxINGHw
Velvet Green [September 20, 2019] The Union – Athens, OH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu42YbjZCw&list=PLgfgH_B11Ah8_ycoIwf_kE_x0-vswYB-z&index=1
Velvet Green – Real Lizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs6z02jn-LM
Velvet Green – Live in Athens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ddGGi9I40
Velvet Green – “Swamp Romper”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvNTNE5Gdxc
Velvet Green – “Spill the Tea”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NW0lT34Jdw
Velvet Green – “She’s So Heavy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W39xnWN93PA
Velvet Green LIVE at the Union, Athens OH, 22 Feb 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYXQEE4NsM
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SUN BOATS, aka SUNBOATS
Sam Debatin: guitar and vocals
Harper Reese: guitar and vocals
Zack Shafer: guitar and vocals
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Artist Profile: SUN BOATS
https://woub.org/2020/10/21/artist-profile-sun-boats/
Sun Boats at LobsterFest 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuEXNUEJyY4
Sunboats: “Orange”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W48SYUjzdNU
Zack Harper Sam: “Play Pretend”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l9l_2boD8o
Zack Harper Sam: “Allison”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ8OyC98SaM
Zack Harper Sam: “Dandelion”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g0lTrFffzQ
Zack Harper Sam: “Willin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsW2TAZzcUA
Zack Harper Sam: “Amie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhGPx2ntQOw
IN MEMORY: JD HUTCHISON (1940-2021)
JD HUTCHISON: YOU AND THE WORLD OUTSIDE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M696JJ1
JD HUTCHISON: SPOTIFY
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5FNogofbn7TBS0IayZPgcD
YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8L1CB_5DKsAHocaAV30DIpl1RRz8pj1a
JD HUTCHISON: “Ready on the Firing Line”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_-sbFlUqp0
JD HUTCHISON: “Girl from the North Country”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl6aIs95nNU ]
JD Hutchison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDIyNRr4Bv4
JD HUTCHISON: NMF Gladden House Sessions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g57Jg7shRXU
The Hutchison Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjST8nRhcN4
J.D. Hutchison and Friends at Another Fool’s Cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUWIK4i0ztk
J.D. Hutchison: “That Ain’t All of Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbRwpF2Xgfc
Who is J.D. Hutchison?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o9jPzPKyNI
Farewell and Godspeed, Brother John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovA49hrAZzE
J.D. Hutchison: “Somebody Wants Me Out of the Way”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8dP_rugf-g
J.D. HUTCHISON’s Cover of “Boots of Spanish Leather”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1FXAjZ–WY
J.D. HUTCHISON: FOUR ’TIL LATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0ADYUmjpUU
IN MEMORY OF J.D. HUTCHISON
Performed by Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius. Written by Tim O’Brien and Ronnie Bowman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3XzUsk1LgU
BOILED BUZZARDS: “THREE THIN DIMES”
(Written by J.D. HUTCHISON’S FATHER: JOHN W. HUTCHISON)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ_5fuF_WtU
John Dale Hutchison Obituary (The Daily Jeff)
“J.D.’s original songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including Tim O’Brien, Robert Earl Keen, K.T. Oslin, Jan Howard, Ginny Hawker, Suzanne Thomas and the bands Hot Rize and Stella. […]
“‘These are tough and tender things. We can only have confidence that the Natural Order of Things prevails–and that a wondrous life well-lived has moved on accordingly. Pain in my heart where better words should be ….’”—John Dale Hutchison (2018)
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J.D. Hutchison and Friends
FULL PLAYLIST
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9
1. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Ain’t I Been Good to You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvlDQVSrIlE&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=4
2. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “99 Years”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5okXkjcBH8U&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=9
3. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Where is My Sailor Boy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkL348MCZwo&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=5
4. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Travelin’ Down This Lonesome Road”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheOVcyxCfo&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=3
5. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Star of County Down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpXkTRiNaIc
6. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Pretty Polly”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZDBIVC9Rig&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=6
7. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Done Gone”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm1ytrHocv8&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=7
8. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Another Fools’ Café”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xibbIqMCQ-g&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=1
9. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “No Rest for the Wicked”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLlctnfSNE&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=11
10. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Mr. Sandman — Shiek of Araby”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puw9QFdxB0Q&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=8
11. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Since 1942”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmEwEg9zyg8&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=10
12. J.D. Hutchison and Friends: “Money to Burn”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTdm-xhGq6A&list=PLagffND1gwfEGyX9mA1gLfQYEf2YQKQH9&index=2
POEM by J. D. Hutchison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vani6Y8eGL4
JEANIE THIEKEN CREAMER
Jeanie Thieken Creamer on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@jeaniecreamer
Jeanie Thieken Creamer: “Annie’s House”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QLFu_2dpD4
Jeanie Thieken Creamer: “If I Had a Wish”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XACtAHffhGI
Jeanie Thieken Creamer: “Hearts Wide Open”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR0euLxnAu4
Jeanie Thieken Creamer: “Great Divide”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZacJ7p2pFI
Jeanie Thieken Creamer: “On the Open Road”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQoUIU7-ffU
Jeanie Thieken Creamer: “I Do My Own Stunts”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ul-LCFFVM
Jeanie Thieken Creamer: “Burn” (Songwriter Circle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5fmC27LFI
JEANIE AND THE DREAMERS
JEANIE is JEANIE THIEKEN CREAMER.
Jeanie Thieken Creamer
on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@jeaniecreamer
JEANIE AND THE DREAMERS on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@jeanieandthedreamers8569
JEANIE AND THE DREAMERS: “Oh Susanna”
Jeanie’s lovely version of the Stephen Foster song (Glidden Hall, Ohio University, January 8, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCdIuVuf0uM
JEANIE AND THE DREAMERS: “Forever Young”
Our take on the familiar Bob Dylan Song (Glidden Hall, Ohio University, January 8, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_1ymS-Z6ZA
JEANIE AND THE DREAMERS: “Practicing the Swallowtail / Haste to the Wedding / Mairi’s Wedding Set”
Three traditional Celtic tunes. The first two are jigs, the third is a marchy reel, with wonderful lyrics. (Practicing at Nick’s house on January 3, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78osMKnFMY
JEANIE AND THE DREAMERS: “Practicing the Rebel Raid / Golden Stud / Touching Cloth Set”
Rebel Raid is a traditional old time tune. Golden Stud and Touching Cloth are both Irish tunes, the first, written by tenor banjo players Kieran Hanrahan; the second, by fiddler James Kelly. (Practicing at Nick’s house on January 3, 2020.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKy2eNwmAq0
LIVE FROM HOME: ATHENS, OHIO (AND ENVIRONS) SINGER-SONGWRITERS
(All musical friends of Bruce Dalzell are honorary Athenians no matter where they live and love.)
Albert Rouzie: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Gifts”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvmeMca8D3c
Angela Perley: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “What is This You Have Done to Me”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mregk-X_Llg
Angie Heimann: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Girl with the Chestnut Hair”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue6ooyuPpgI
Ben Davis, Jr.: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Leaves”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKq8s7tQ8d4
Billy Rhinehart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Simple as I Look”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zdvlHx2Lw
Bob Stewart: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Morning Turn”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGuQ1ZpwjNY
Bruce and Gay Dalzell: Live From Home (Holiday)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLetQfocFGA
Bruce Dalzell’s album LIVE FROM HOME is available here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C3S7VLVJ/
Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Camille Karavas: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Heard You Talking in My Sleep”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1FE6ueEeZs
Carrie Elkin: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Gift”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y69Emfug1bw
Dan Canterbury: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Diary of a Turtle”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHcao2v5g0I
Danny Schmidt: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Bovine Serenade”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBPv2RNuzY
Don Baker: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Billy and Jenny and Joe”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_5xqJX9Vq4
Donna Mogavero: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Restless Night”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3KI8rMXiq0
Eric Gnezda: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbFDnzfEDV4
Harlan Dalzell: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s cover of Harlan Dalzell’s “Anna Lee”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVlLX923HM
Jordan Tice: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “The Stuff of Dreams”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLrfY6QP4k0
Keith Larsen: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Long Time”)
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Todd Burge: Live from Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “Things I am for You”)
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Vincent Trocchia: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “A Song of Flying”)
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William Matheny: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “I Don’t Know Why”)
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RETELLINGS OF A CLASSIC WORK OF LITERATURE
Arden of Faversham: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Arraignment, or Poetaster: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fair: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Case is Altered: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Catiline’s Conspiracy: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Devil is an Ass: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Epicene: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humor: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Fountain of Self-Love, or Cynthia’s Revels: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The Magnetic Lady, or Humors Reconciled: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s The New Inn, or The Light Heart: A Retelling
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Ben Jonson’s The Staple of News: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s A Tale of a Tub: A Retelling
Ben Jonson’s Volpone, or the Fox: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Complete Plays: Retellings
Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: Retellings of the 1604 A-Text and of the 1616 B-Text
Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s The Rich Jew of Malta: A Retelling
Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2: Retellings
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Inferno: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Purgatory: A Retelling in Prose
Dante’s Paradise: A Retelling in Prose
The Famous Victories of Henry V: A Retelling
From the Iliad to the Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose of Quintus of Smyrna’s Posthomerica
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston’s Eastward Ho! A Retelling
George Peele’s The Arraignment of Paris: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar: A Retelling
George’s Peele’s David and Bathsheba, and the Tragedy of Absalom: A Retelling
George Peele’s Edward I: A Retelling
George Peele’s The Old Wives’ Tale: A Retelling
George-a-Greene: A Retelling
The History of King Leir: A Retelling
Homer’s Iliad: A Retelling in Prose
Homer’s Odyssey: A Retelling in Prose
J.W. Gent.’s The Valiant Scot: A Retelling
Jason and the Argonauts: A Retelling in Prose of Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica
John Ford: Eight Plays Translated into Modern English
John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Fancies, Chaste and Noble: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lady’s Trial: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy: A Retelling
John Ford’s Love’s Sacrifice: A Retelling
John Ford’s Perkin Warbeck: A Retelling
John Ford’s The Queen: A Retelling
John Ford’s ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Campaspe: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Endymion, The Man in the Moon: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Galatea: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Love’s Metamorphosis: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Midas: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Mother Bombie: A Retelling
John Lyly’s Sappho and Phao: A Retelling
John Lyly’s The Woman in the Moon: A Retelling
John Webster’s The White Devil: A Retelling
King Edward III: A Retelling
Mankind: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Margaret Cavendish’s The Unnatural Tragedy: A Retelling
The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Retelling
The Summoning of Everyman: A Medieval Morality Play (A Retelling)
Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay: A Retelling
The Taming of a Shrew: A Retelling
Tarlton’s Jests: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling: A Retelling
The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Ancient Epic Poems
Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard III: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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The Most Interesting People in Politics and History, Volume 3: 250 Anecdotes
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Reality is Fabulous: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
Resist Psychic Death: 250 Anecdotes
Seize the Day: 250 Anecdotes and Stories
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- RISE ABOVE.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- ASTONISH ME.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- DO IT NOW.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- GO OUT AND GET ONE.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- WORK A LITTLE HARDER.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno
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