{"id":18488,"date":"2015-03-07T16:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T23:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=18488"},"modified":"2015-03-07T16:16:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T23:16:05","slug":"sometimes-i-confess-its-embarrassing-to-be-so-well-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/03\/sometimes-i-confess-its-embarrassing-to-be-so-well-cool.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, I confess, it&#8217;s embarrassing to be so . . . well, COOL."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18489\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/DanWatchingEclipse.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18489\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/03\/DanWatchingEclipse-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Me, being cool\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photograph of me was taken during a previous bout of extreme cool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been non-stop, wall-to-wall good music here at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzbashbythebay.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cJazz Bash by the Bay.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 Thus far, though, I would say that my favorite act has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rigomania.com\/flambeau_page_html_9-02.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tom Rigney and Flambeau<\/a>. \u00a0So far, we\u2019ve seen them twice. \u00a0And I\u00a0especially enjoyed\u00a0it when they were joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbLR9SqslpM\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bob Draga<\/a>. \u00a0Which, I\u2019m told, will happen again tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I got a special kick when I realized that Tom Rigney is the son of the late Bill Rigney, who was the first manager of the California Angels. \u00a0I remember him well from my boyhood, though I was much more of a Dodger fan than an Angel fan. \u00a0Apparently he was fairly musical, and \u00a0while one of his sons, after earning a degree in history, went on to work in professional baseball like his dad, his other son, Tom, earned two degrees in fine arts at Harvard before becoming a professional musician \u2014 and a very exciting performer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The guitarist for Flambeau, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannycaron.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Danny Caron<\/a>, is also absolutely superb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I bought several CDs from them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m afraid, though, that, if I play them while at the wheel, I\u2019ll be ticketed over and over again for speeding.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Monterey, California<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 There\u2019s been non-stop, wall-to-wall good music here at the \u201cJazz Bash by the Bay.\u201d\u00a0 Thus far, though, I would say that my favorite act has been Tom Rigney and Flambeau. \u00a0So far, we\u2019ve seen them twice. \u00a0And I\u00a0especially enjoyed\u00a0it when they were joined by Bob Draga. \u00a0Which, I\u2019m told, will happen again tonight. 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