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Don't Ride in a Gypsy Cab

My first trip to New York City was on the first week of January 1994, if I remember correctly. I was really excited about going to New York, especially the first time. Who wouldn’t be? I was in a New York state of mind. It was bitterly cold, even for NYC. With the wind chill factor, it was -18C or -.04F. I was lucky to even land because of the ice and snow. In fact, most of the time I was there,…

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#Billy Joel #Broadway #Central Park #Crazy For You #Empire State Building #George Benson #Gershwin #Gypsy Cab #Macys #new york #Newark Airport #NRF #nyc #Rockefeller Plaza #taxis #winter

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Immigrating to New Zealand for a Better Life

Last year I was following the story of a Ukraine woman leaving the war-torn country with her son. She left with the equivalent of US$400. By the time she got to Poland, the Ukraine currency had devalued and all she could get for it was $60. She left Poland because there were too many refugees and the chances of finding work and a new home were limited. So she caught a train to Germany, which was…

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#1960 #christchurch #Holland #Immigration #netherlands #New Brighton #new zealand #NZ Rail #Ukraine #Zuiderkruis

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In the Summertime

On the 11th of July 1970, I went to the record store in Castricum, near my home in Bakkum, where I lived with my grandparents. The scent of sunscreen already hung in the air, a whisper of freedom as days stretched longer and school tests were behind us. Most weeks I would go to the store to pick up a copy of the Radio Veronica Top 40. It was ironic that while they were an illegal Pirate Radio…

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#1972 #auckland #Auckland Town Hall #castricum #concerts #Mungo Jerry #pirate radio #pop music #Radio Venonika #Ray Dorset #Stefanne Grapelli #summertime #top hits #Western Springs #Western Springs stadium

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Back to the Future

A school holiday job at Auckland Museum imprinted 100-year-old songs in my head. W Notting. 1896. Albion Type Press, 1978.927. The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT). At the closing of 1971, my father got me a job at the Auckland Museum, working a 100-year-old printing press, reproducing articles published by the NZ Herald of 1871. In my role as a printer’s apprentice, I printed…

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#Printing Press #Ali Express #Auckland Museum #blues music #Centennial #country music #Dobro #guitar #guitar slide #Guitar steel #museum #nz herald #NZ Herlad #Regina Music Box #slide guitar #Tennessee Waltz

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Stephen King Sues BookMaster Over "Needful Minds"

In a move that will surely send shivers down the spines of horror fans everywhere, Stephen Kinng has filed a lawsuit against BookMaster, a new large language model (LLM) that has developed the capability to write novels. The lawsuit alleges that BookMaster is responsible for a series of books written in Kinng’s style that are so well-imagined and written that they are hard to distinguish from…

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#AI #audiobooks #Fiction #Humor #LLM #Satire #Stephen King #The Future Diaries

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You Can Get Anything You Want

Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant came out in 1967 and being a student of Delta Blues, what appealed to me was the structure of the melody. I played it a lot at jam sessions, although I never got more than about 10 minutes into the song, although like many of the concept albums of the day, I knew most of the lyrics. This was such a clever song and story, starting as you might remember “This song…

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#Albert Park #Alice&039;s Restaurant #Arlo guthrie #auckland #Avalon MS #Blerta #Bruno Lawrence #Delta Blues #Mississippi John Hurt #Ponsonby #preachers #Tim Shadbolt

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Molten Earth was the late Kiwi artist Leo Cappel's protest about manmade climate change. Cappel spent years at Auckland War Memorial Museum creating dioramas including the Bird Hall. https://t.co/0WQQytkPYR #rarible #CleanNFT #NFTs #nftarti̇st #NFTArt via @rarible

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I've just created "Unique NFT 47 of 256 includes 1/256 shared ownership of the actual sculpture Molten Earth by the late artist Leo Cappel" collectible! Entry-level price! https://t.co/ve6dtzIS8F #NFTs #nftarti̇st #GlobalWarming #climatechange

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RT @WakaKotahiAkNth: SH1 SOUTHERN MWY - 6:35PM A crash is blocking the right southbound lane on #SH1 after Ellerslie Panmure Hwy off-ramp. Pass with care and expect delays. ^LB https://t.co/SYKC54M1Lm

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What does it take, America? #shootings #killed #Tulsa #NRA https://t.co/kBZfNwF8s0

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The latest "46 of 256 unique NFT comes with ownership of 1/256 of the actual sculpture, Molten Earth by the late Leo Cappel" And copy 45/256 of his autobiography Only 0.01 ETH https://t.co/wuVLHpa7WO #rarible #ethereum #NFTs #NFTArt #NFTArtist

— Luigi Cappel (@BluesBro) Jun 1, 2022

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How I got the sale for the first scanning liquor store in New Zealand. Other people's opinions are just that, opinions https://t.co/dMeXRA4dGu #POS #Retail #scanning #liquor #sales #First #Marketing https://t.co/BTNNCv8W9d

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Now that is so much better than shooting people! https://t.co/dUjTzPj7HB

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I hope I never see anyone using one of these. I can imagine that some people with health conditions might find this liberating https://t.co/IYLmfVcB9u

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I want one of these Santa https://t.co/xrQahGX7iH

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RT @gigadgets_: These magnetic geometric puzzles are on another level. Products in the video: GeoBender Abstract 2, GeoBender Cube in Sphere #gigadgets #magnetic #rubik #puzzles #playtime https://t.co/O4iNhBFGSs

— Luigi Cappel (@BluesBro) Jun 1, 2022

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