Casa Jonsson

Nils & Araceli’s home on the web, est. 2003

Disastros

How bitter it is. 

A relic from aviation’s golden age

The old Houston Municipal Airport, an art-deco structure that was abandoned in 1978, is being refurbished as an aviation museum.
The photo at the right reminds me of Ingrid Bergman with Humphrey Bogart on the tarmac at the end of Casablanca.
Listen to a Houston Public Radio piece about this that I heard this morning, or visit […]

Astros!

How sweet it is. 

Shameless self-promotion

West University Methodist Church has invited me to perform in the last of six concerts that they organized this year to celebrate the renovation of their sanctuary and the installation of a new pipe organ. It is a wonderful concert space, and the instrument is amazing.
Prominent Houston organist Robert Bennett and I will play well-known […]

Not much point

I’m not a rabid Woody Allen fan, but I do enjoy a lot of his work. Having just watched the trailer for his forthcoming movie, Match Point, I can say that there are only two possible conclusions to draw. Either he didn’t even look at the trailer that the studio produced before it went live, […]

His life in movies

I just found out that a friend of Casa Jonsson is blogging. Again. (We’ve linked to weblogs of his in the past and they fizzled. But hope springs eternal.) I asked him why I hadn’t heard about this project that has been underway since June. He wants to remain anonymous.
I’m linking to him anyway, but […]