by Jim Bass | Aug 21, 2013 | Books, In memorium
LA Times Elmore Leonard, one of America’s best known crime novelists, died Tuesday morning due to complications from a stroke, according to Leonard’s Facebook page and his longtime researcher at the Detroit News, Gregg Sutter. Leonard, 87, was working on...
by Jim Bass | May 27, 2013 | In memorium
Memorial Day is meant to be a day of sober remembrance, and thankfulness, to those who gave their all. As always, a special tip of the hat to Susan Gertson and...
by Jim Bass | Dec 6, 2012 | In memorium, Music
This was the first jazz cut I ever connected with, waaay back when. What stands out now is that Brubeck the pianist essentially plays percussion on this...
by Jim Bass | Dec 1, 2012 | In memorium, Photography, Technology, TV
Or at least invented it. Every color digital camera in use today works because of the invention of Bruce Bayer, who worked at Kodak at the time. He died November 13. The video explains how Bayer’s invention...
by Jim Bass | Oct 10, 2012 | Hollywood, In memorium, Sports
by Jim Bass | Sep 26, 2012 | In memorium, Music
Andy Williams was my parents’ music, playing on the Hi-Fi years before WiFi. I used my iMac — the one I use only for photo and video editing — to put music on my mother’s iPad. So the music collection is Williams, Sinatra, Mel Torme and so on....
