test blog #10

We are here ! Staying here . Going to this !  Also here , scene of many past celebrations. Ah, New York. And Bruce!! That is all.

If you're an app developer for MLB, or if you're with Roku or AppleTV, skip down to the final paragraphs! Because Allan and I follow an out-of-town baseball team, we subscribe to MLB.TV, and have done so for ages. As much as I dislike pay-per-TV services, being able to watch any baseball game at any time, with either the home or away feed, is amazing. Once we were able to do this by streaming, as opposed to through cable, the price went down and the quality went up. I've blogged many times about the wonder of the Roku streaming device, and how it solved so many issues for watching baseball, TV series, and movies. Last year, I learned that the Canadian streaming service CraveTV offers lots of Showtime and HBO content. Thanks to exclusive licensing deals, Crave is not available on Roku; it only streams on AppleTV. (You can watch on a computer or mobile device, but we don't like that.) So in order to get the additional Showtime and HBO content, we bought an AppleTV  devic...

Once again, Google has reduced the ease and functionality of Blogger. A while back, the layout of the Blogger dashboard changed. I used to be able to see an overview of all my blogs plus my "following" list on one dashboard page. I found this very useful, and I imagine that other users who also moderate more than one blog would have agreed. Now I can no longer check for and moderate comments on all blogs at the same time, and I no longer have one-stop-shopping for which blogs on my list have updated. For comments, I have to check each blog separately, necessitating many more clicks. For blogs I read, I had to subscribe to email updates, on blogs that offer this function. Not everyone does. (I don't like using feeds; I prefer to visit blogs and websites on their native platforms.) Next, Google discontinued the option to have comments on your own blog emailed to you. So, for example, if Allan put a bunch of comments through on wmtc, those comments would be emailed to me. I...

Court and Spark , 1974 Writing about the music of Joni Mitchell has been a huge challenge. My love of music and my writing abilities seem to live in separate spheres: I write with my brain, but I listen with my heart. If writing about Joni's music has been challenging, writing about Court and Spark feels impossible. The love and connection I feel for this music is impossible to put into words. So with that disclaimer, I will now attempt the impossible. Court and Spark is many Joni fans' favourite album. I mentioned that fans over a certain age seem to choose Blue ; fans under that age, those younger than the boomer generation, seem to gravitate towards Court and Spark . Listening to this music in retrospect, you can follow the very clear musical progression from Blue  to For the Roses  to Court and Spark . But in its day, no one could have been prepared for this masterpiece. On Court and Spark , Joni more fully realizes many threads that emerged on previous albums. The...