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How bitter it is. 

Posted on October 27th, 2005 by Nils
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How sweet it is. 

Posted on October 19th, 2005 by Nils
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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 […]

Posted on October 17th, 2005 by Nils
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Tribe. Tribe, Tribe! TRIBE!!
Having grown up outside Cleveland, I’m feeling pretty smug about the spanking that the Indians gave the Yankees on Tuesday. It was the worst shutout in over a hundred years of the game’s history. 

Posted on September 2nd, 2004 by Nils
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I was just using Yahoo! Maps and something caught my eye. Apparently somebody at Yahoo! is (or was) a Rockets fan. This is the approximate location of Compaq Center (formerly called The Summit, and soon to be the new site of “The Oasis of Love”) where the Rockets summited the NBA championship in 1994 and […]

Posted on February 22nd, 2004 by Nils
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I understand why Eric’s “overjoyed” that he ended up having nothing to do with the Super Bowl halftime show. The “mishap” near the end (which, thankfully, I missed—we kept changing the channel because most of the rest of the show was not family friendly, either) was only the straw that broke the camel’s back; everybody […]

Posted on February 2nd, 2004 by Nils
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Eric has been very busy lately. It’s not every day that one gets asked by MTV to arrange some music.
For whom? Oh … just a band backing up some singer by the name of Janet Jackson! What’s the venue? Oh, you know … it’s for the halftime hootenanny of a football game called the Super […]

Posted on January 14th, 2004 by Nils
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What would it take for the average girl to attract the attention, let alone the affections, of Rockets’ star center, Yao Ming? Former Houstonian Max Apple has a gem of a short story called “Yao’s Chick” in November’s Atlantic.
Li En minced no words: in Mandarin she told the truth: “I hope to become Yao Ming’s […]

Posted on December 8th, 2003 by Nils
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A stimulating discussion on culture is in progress at Tasty Tacos. Dig in!
I’m not worthy so much as to gather taco crumbs from under the table. The presence of an unwashed philistine such as myself in the kitchen may not make the tacos any tastier, but perhaps it makes the process more democratic instead of […]

Posted on August 19th, 2003 by Nils
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