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Tom Hendricks's Blog – April 2011 Archive (6)

WMZ weekly art quiz - test your art smarts - from Musea Zine

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

This painter noted for his colorful works said, "I've been 40 years

discovering that the queen of all colors was black." Name him.

IS:

Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

The winner is Loki from France. Seems the rest of you were working with a limited palette!

I don't dumb down, so please wise up!

Now on to a new Q.: Win a copy of my NEW cd CALLED…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on April 25, 2011 at 11:54am — No Comments

Musea E-mail Club #527 Background Vocals

My Musea weekly art contest always gets some great responses. The current winner was Loki from France, who also commented on the Hunkasaurus recordings -

Keep-up the good work, my compliments to the arranger of several of your post-band pieces, I found the voicing between the many lines of guitar and voices very interesting. Cheers.

Loki, I'm glad to hear you like that. These recordings are the collaboration of me doing all the guitar and vocals, and my musical engineer…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on April 22, 2011 at 10:46am — No Comments

WMZ art quiz - test your art smarts

The answer to, and winner (if any) for, our last contest question of:

This major major rock group had an accordion player. Name that rock and roll group and its accordion player.

IS:

Bill Haley and The Comets. The accordion player was Johnny Grande. Here's a cool photo. http://www.rockabillyhall.com/Extra.html#grande

I had no eligible winners. Seems y'all didn't THINK around the clock…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on April 16, 2011 at 9:36pm — No Comments

Poems Written in Early April

Poems Written During Early April 2011

POEMS

There are some Moon poems here. Someday I'd like to do a collection of all my Moon poems.

Some nights

are dark

and some have

a Moon

2. The Woman's Lament

the petals

of the flowers

he gave me

are falling

this umbrella

is stuffed with wind!

Mother and…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on April 15, 2011 at 11:19am — No Comments

Small Deal is a big Aggravation when Corporations can't admit being wrong

Readers,

My sister and I both have a guilty pleasure of watching Celebrity Apprentice and then comparing notes. Sunday, after watching for almost two hours - the climax of the show was coming up - the culmination of two hours invested in watching - and THEN -

NBC local affiliate in Dallas, Channel 5, broke in with a tornado warning. The weather man gave a warning about a possible tornado, then repeated it over and over, and played around with graphics for about 10 minutes.…

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Added by Tom Hendricks on April 11, 2011 at 10:19am — No Comments