Browsing Archive: March, 2009
Posted by Bob Bruno on Tuesday, March 24, 2009,
This year I was given a comedy CD called "Teen Comedy Party" which included a cut that I was involved with by singing the part of the character "Tony Rosatoni" in a commercial about his appearance in the econolodge behind the airport . It featured clips from some of his "big tunes" , almost as if it were a commercial that was selling a CD. Listening this morning I remembered playing a place on Long Island called "Foxes and Hounds" where I sold Sinatra songs . It seemed I was thrust into this...
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Trippin' , The Emperor Has No Clothes
Posted by Bob Bruno on Wednesday, March 18, 2009,
It is funny to me when I hear the phrase "I'm trippin'" and the people aren't trippin' at all , in fact they are really straight guys using drug codes . It is amazing to me how so much drug and jail vernacular has infiltrated the every day language of the straight folks , the hard workin' Christian folks , as if the rest of the world is just sitting on their thumbs . The politicians have played this phrase so often so, bitterly often , almost like the phrase "The silent majority" which repres...
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Big City Rush Day
Posted by Bob Bruno on Sunday, March 15, 2009,
Blogs are kind of new to me and I must admit that I don't really write too much unless I am in a bad mood or get off on a tangent on a subject that is hiding in the back of my mind . I think that this also was a lot of my inspiration as a poet or song writer in the sixties . I did write poetry in response to occurrences , most of which were not happy memories like a betrayal , loneliness , or the frustration of those times . I wrote of prejudice ,bigotry, against the current war ( Viet Nam )...
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