Vi Wickam and Christina Gressianu gave us this aerial video of Wizard Academy after they got married at Chapel Dulcinea. Thanks, Vi and Christina!

Yep. The man who inspired the muppet “Floyd” went on become chairman of the Congressional Advisory Committee on Missile Defense. This episode of THE TODAY SHOW aired on December 15, 2005.

Jim Henson obviously patterned Floyd Pepper – his muppet rock-guitarist – on Duane Allman and Skunk Baxter.  Allman finished his shift with the Allman Brothers and clocked out early on October 29, 1971. Baxter was a founding member of Steely Dan in 1972 and then became one of the Doobie Brothers in 1974. Floyd Pepper […]

The band’s manager had a friend with a cat named Procol Harum, and he thought it sounded good. The band didn’t know what it meant, but later found out the Latin phrase procul harun means ‘beyond these things,’ which they thought appropriate. Why the cat was named Procol Harum is not known.

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Conflicted about their journey and the result of it 32 years later, the wise men tell the story of their travails in the wilderness in this famous 3-minute poem by T.S. Eliot, read by John Gielgud, the famous English actor. (1904–2000)

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Remember Donald Fagan, the lead singer/piano player of Steely Dan? (You just saw him on the previous page.) He’s still sitting at that piano, but look who he’s playin’ with these days! They call themselves The Dukes of September.

“… since you were seventeen.”

The Wonder of It All by Alexander Millar

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“The small boat pitched violently upon the heaving bosom of the ocean, causing Johnson to reflect that, although he generally liked bosoms, he was getting really tired of the ocean’s bosom, and wished that it would at least drop from a 44D to a 34B.” – the entry of Mr. William J. Harvey of Midwest […]

Thomas, Napoleon, and Henry Everyone agrees that Henry Leverseege would have become much more famous had he lived beyond 29. But even though he died young, his paintings hang in museums across England. There is only one of them in private hands. Mine. 🙂 Henry was born in 1803, the year that Thomas Jefferson famously […]

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This is Cafe Lula at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, the venue we rented for our summer ’17 Wizard of Ads Partners Meeting.

http://radio.garden/live/la-paz/black-rabbit/ FYI Below – Zac wastes the first 43 seconds, so you might want to advance to that point. Just sayin’… Indy

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Today in Literature is one of only 3 subscriptions the wizard allows himself. I often read these daily emails over his shoulder in the wee morning hours. This little Tarzan feature is one of several elements from the September 1, 2017 edition. Steve King gives anyone who is interested a free subscription for 2 weeks, […]