Shades of gray….Photo by Jean Bredin, Blogfinger staff. May 10, 2024.   BLOSSOM DEARIE:  “Manhattan” by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/10-Manhattan.m4a   ..read more

Paul Goldfinger photo. 2023. Will the fashions evolve this summer—2024.     DAVID CHRISTMAS AND BERNADETTE PETERS.  From Dames at Sea.   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/13-Dames-at-Sea_-Theres-Something-About-You.m4a ..read more

La Tapatia. Asbury Park.  Paul Goldfinger photo. May,, 2024. When we went to Guadalajara we improved our Spanish by ordering Dos Equis beer.  But the most popular Mexican beer is Corona. Here’s a BF link to the “Sombrero Man.” https://wp.me/pqmj2-sgY And below is the Corona girl at our beach ..read more

Paul Goldfinger photo. Ocean Grove beach.    Click to read the ad.   Will Neptune cite her with  a zoning violation for  displaying an ad on our beach?    Blogfinger.net   DAVE MATTHEWS BAND “You and Me.”   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/13-you-me.m4a   ..read more

OG boardwalk. April 11, 2023. Paul Goldfinger photo.  Click to enlarge.   Wisdom Bench. 2024 version: Coed.   And here is an  OG  memory of the Wisdom Bench by Mary Walton, Blogfinger reporter. 2012: https://wp.me/pqmj2-dHs   DION:   “Can’t We Be Sweethearts?   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/05-Cant-We-Be-Sweethearts.m4a     ..read more

Sanibel Island in southwest Florida. It has 15 miles of sandy beaches. At its eastern tip is the famous Sanibel Lighthouse and the fishing pier, seen above.  Paul Goldfinger photo. ©   Click to enlarge.  Tri-X collection. c.1999.   NEIL DIAMOND: https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/01-cracklin-rosie.m4a ..read more

Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Ovation Yo Yo Ma gave a fascinating interview to the New York Times about his life and his music. The quote below is from that interview called “Yo-Yo Ma and the Mind Game of Music”  link below. Yo-Yo interview link “I’ve come to think of music in a way that’s a little clearer now.  I would say the sound part of it, what you hear, the measurable part of the sound, is equivalent to the tip of an iceberg, less than 10% of the whole mass. So what’s below the surface is actually what is the music, what’s above is just the sound. I think about what is behind ..read more

From the ACLU website:    “The ACLU is always on guard to ensure that the First Amendment’s protections remain robust — in times of war or peace, for bloggers or the institutional press, online or off.”     Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor, Blogfinger.net.   Ocean Grove, New Jersey, United States of America. In late April we placed a banner on our Ocean Grove home regarding our blog—Blogfinger.net. This is the start of promoting our 13th Annual Town-Wide Yard Sale. We are  a free Internet site  which provides news, opinions, ideas, photography and music..  W ..read more

Ocean Grove boards. A cool 7 am on August 11, 2020. Paul Goldfinger photo.   KATHERINE HO:  From the soundtrack of Crazy Rich Asians. “Yellow”   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/12-yellow.m4a ..read more

Paul Goldfinger ©. Fort Myers, Fla. ©     THE BAND with a Bob Dylan song: “I see my light come shining From the west unto the east Any day now, any day now I shall be released.”   https://blogfinger.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2-11-i-shall-be-released-finale-concert-version-ensemble-2.mp3 ..read more