Mark Bartlett pianist

So I finally made the commitment to get my own domain, and in the next few days I’ll probably migrate all these pages over to the new location. I’ve been thinking about doing this for a long time, but never really had the justification for needing it. But since I’m looking at adding more pictures…

Here’s Laura’s e-mail regarding last night’s reading group: What a lively discussion we had about tonight’s book (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)! (Okay, I’ll admit that almost all of our discussions are pretty lively, but this one showed little sign of flagging as we neared 9:00 and I finally guided us into wrapping up.)…

I’m shocked this morning to read on velonews.com about the death of Andre Kivilev. I remember Kivilev most from the 2001 Tour de France, where he was the only GC threat in a large breakaway on an early stage in the rain that managed to foil the peloton and finished about 35 minutes ahead of…

I’m so far behind in my comic reading these days its not even funny, but I’ve been treading water for the last several weeks and at least reading as many as I’m buying, even if the ones I’m reading are ones I bought three or four months ago. It actually makes for an interesting change,…

Considering how many pianists there are in the english-speaking world and how many magazines there are in the same english-speaking world, it’s somewhat surprising how hard it is to find a magazine about the piano. And I don’t mean Keyboard Magazine, which is about keyboards, after all, but one about the actual piano. I subscribed…

Somehow I missed the last couple of days. I spent the evening on the computer Friday night, but it wasn’t until five seconds after I turned it off that I remembered I’d forgotten to update this. And Saturday evening was mostly spent fighting to stay awake, which I succeeded in doing, but again, without updating…

So Beth is off tomorrow for a wild weekend of scrapbooking on the Cape, leaving me with the kiddies for a couple of days. While this is the sort of thing that used to inspire dread and fear, now it doesn’t seem that awful. The kids are older, more self-sufficient, fairly easy to entertain, so…

Seems like Blogger’s been having problems today, but maybe it’s just the network here at work doesn’t want to let me in. Last night I stopped at CompUSA on the way home to check out the PDA’s, but also picked up a copy of Adobe Photoshop Album for $10 off, since it was top-rated in…

Just finished (like 15 minutes ago) David Brin’s “The Uplift War”, a big, sprawling mess of a novel that was the Hugo winner back in the 80’s and finished the loosely connected first Uplift trilogy. This is Brin’s “War and Peace” following a large number of races and a few representatives from each through an…

Had my first real experience with the Boston Piano Amateurs Association today as a member. We met at someone’s house in Northboro, which had a good-sized music room with a grand and two uprights, plus an organ. Nobody took advantage of the multiple pianos, though. About a dozen people played, including my first contribution, the…