I was going to write this week about my general horror that the Republican convention nominated a candidate so unqualified. The Washington Post then summed up my thoughts pretty well.
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One of the problems of writing in blog form is there is no deadlines. When I have written for publications in the past, sometimes the deadline forced me to get the story in. I have no such force here. So perfectionism gets in the way. This reared its ugly head in the past month.
This happened because of my attempt and failure to capture the essence of Martin Bevis.
I have been a subscriber to the classic film series at Dayton's Victoria Theatre for over 20 years. During most of that span, Bevis was the organist who played the half hour before the films.
He had a dry wit in his introductions that was infectious. It was impossible to listen to him without smiling. The amazing fact is every time he played it was by memory. He played a different half hour every week, yet I never saw him use sheet music one.
Martin died last spring. While the Cool Films series in Dayton has done a good job providing pre-shows with this year's series, he is terribly missed. I just wish I could do him justice.
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Jon Stewart, I have missed you.
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