Music Monday: “Cowboy in the Jungle” by Jimmy Buffett (1978)


March 11, 2024

A couple of weeks ago, someone mention Jimmy Buffett and an old memory song … from back when I was really just starting to listen to music, buy albums (or often dubbed to cassette) …  AND to Jimmy Buffett — it was 1978. One of the first albums that sold me on Jimmy Buffett was […]

“The Perfect Margarita” – A Toast to Jimmy Buffett #WSJ


December 23, 2023

Although I’ve never paid attention to those who perfect the skills of bartending, I’ve always enjoyed listening to Jimmy Buffett Caribbean escapism music … and sipping on a good Margarita. Beth DeCarbo posted a recipe and thought I might want to give it a try “next summer.” 😉    Jimmy Buffett – “Margaritaville”     […]

Music Monday: “Island” – Jimmy Buffett lives in my head


October 2, 2023

It is still difficult to believe that Jimmy Buffett in gone and won’t be making new music or touring. I know I still hear his music in my head and wish there was a way to go back a few decades to enjoy a new albums and songs every year all over again.    Jimmy […]

Music Monday: Jimmy Buffett passed away peacefully at age 76


September 4, 2023

Depressing for those of us who grew up in the Jimmy Buffett mindset and have enjoyed his music, concerts, ambitious lifestyle and attitude for our college and adult lives, but his passing on September 1, 2023 hit home. Unfortunately it is starting to feel like the norm (but 76 is way, WAY, too young)? I […]

Music Monday: Pushing a Jimmy Buffett memory forward


May 15, 2023

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Mellow Music for Sunday: “Duke’s On Sunday” – Jimmy Buffett


April 23, 2023

As I often do in the evening, I was listening music on headphones while reading last night. Jimmy Buffett was singing “Duke’s On Sunday” on SiriusXM’s Radio Margaritaville … and it soothed my soul; I think I could listen to it on repeat over and over.  So instead of waiting until Music Monday, I’ll tag […]

Music Monday: A recovery message from Jimmy Buffett


October 10, 2022

pic.twitter.com/zzZyRZDG38 — Jimmy Buffett (@jimmybuffett) October 6, 2022

Music Monday: “That’s My Wave” by Jimmy Buffett


August 22, 2022

While listening to Radio Margaritaville and relaxing in the backyard at the end of the day last week, another Life On The Flipside song caught my ear and started me thinking about how I’m missing sailing and the ocean. I’m not an active surfer, although “IF” I still had decent balance (see Menieres), I wouldn’t […]

Music Monday: Does Cincinnati still love Jimmy Buffett in 2022?


July 25, 2022

An especially “cool” Jimmy Buffett concert in Cincinnati, Ohio was enjoyed by Taylor’s Megan and her Parrothead father Dave. As usual (except thru COVID), they were at the annual Riverbend concert and enjoyed the up close and personal and more intimate side of the concert. Dave Schnieder, a Cincinnati teacher and football coach all of […]

Music Monday: Radio Margaritaville and Jimmy Buffett singing “Slack Tide” from “Life on the Flip Side” while mowing


June 27, 2022

It is officially summer … and what’s better in warm weather and sunshine than songs from Jimmy Buffett on Music Monday? So here’s “Slack Tide” off Life on the Flip Side album (as heard on Radio Margaritaville). I just happened to be listening to it streaming on the SiriusXM app on my new noise-cancelling Wyze […]

Jimmy Buffett in Delray Beach & automotive pandemic insanity


June 3, 2021

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Music Monday: Stories We Could Tell sung by Jimmy Buffett


October 5, 2020

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Another Jimmy Buffett 2020 stay-at-home video memory


September 14, 2020

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A weekend Brenda birthday photo and Jimmy Buffett video


August 18, 2020

We are really enjoying the time we have to stay around home this summer amidst Coronavirus concerns … although Brenda has never stopped going to work … she works in an “essential business” – pharmacy. We certainly enjoyed having Katelyn, Drew, Annalyn and Ellerie to our house for a mini-vacation for several days earlier this […]

Music Monday: “The Captain And The Kid” – Jimmy Buffett


August 3, 2020

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Music Monday: Cheeseburger in Paradise – Jimmy Buffett


July 22, 2019

What would summer be without Jimmy Buffett music and cheeseburgers? How about remembering summer fun with Jimmy Buffett‘s Cheeseburger in Paradise song from back in 1978 with a relatively new personal connection twist? Besides me being a nearly life long listener, this past year or so I have another connection to Buffett as mentioned before. […]

A new OLD Jimmy Buffett album to be out next month


October 18, 2017

It looks like “old” Jimmy Buffett fans will be treated to some new OLD music on November 17th? A few years ago, when legendary Nashville producer Buzz Cason sold his recording studio, there was some cleaning up to do. That is when Jimmy learned that they had found a sizeable collection of 1⁄4-inch tapes that […]

Music Monday: Back to the pre-Parrothead Jimmy Buffett days


October 9, 2017

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Short montage of songs Jimmy Buffett has not played in 10 years


June 15, 2016

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Jimmy Buffett made a cameo in Jurassic World – who knew?


February 17, 2016

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Video: Jimmy Buffett … “after the fall”


January 28, 2011

A few words of appreciation from Jimmy Buffett … humbled by the outpouring of concern and well wishes from his fans. From his comments it does look like he is going to be just fine although will miss the New Zealand concert. Gotta love the the “Fins Up!” smile. 😎

Jimmy Buffett: sails thru 60


January 14, 2007

As an original “before the salt” Jimmy Buffett fan, I’m embarrassed to have missed his 60th birthday — I was there in the 1970s and have the original vinyl albums to prove it … along with books and concert memories — right Jeff? (am I getting that old?). Anyway, happy belated birthday Bubba. 😀 Time […]

Music Monday: Jackson and Buffett – It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere


January 27, 2020

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Archive: Updating the “goings-on” of Taylor and Megan


March 1, 2024

While I really wanted to take the time and archive the great time we had in February with Katelyn, Drew and our granddaughters in Florida, I’ll start with a less time intensive post. Last week Taylor and Megan made me jealous by going to a Mac McAnally concert in Cincinnati. It definitely looks like they […]

Music Monday: Dave Matthews and JB’s “A Pirate Looks at Forty”


January 1, 2024

When a few of my “other” favorite groups or musicians sing Jimmy Buffett songs, I can’t help but listen and sing along (suspect I’m not the only one who will miss his music)? In December, a social media friend forwarded the YouTube video below, but thought I would include a Zac Brown Band and Jimmy […]

The Coral Reefer Band will try to “keep the party going”


November 1, 2023

It will not be easy for the Coral Reefer Band to keep traveling and performing without Jimmy Buffett, but all the bandmembers have talent and many of them have been together for years if not decades together …  “as a family.” So, it is sounding as if they intent to give the concert tour a […]

Belated Obituary: David George Schneider (1952 – 2022)


November 5, 2022

The sharing of this obituary news is a month late in coming … partially due to the sudden shock … and partially due to not having the right words to share on my blog … but a friend of our family and Megan’s father, Dave Schneider, passed away on October 5, 2022. He was one […]

Merry Christmas 2021 and Happy New Year from both of us


December 20, 2021

Perhaps the days of our yearly-update annual Corbett Christmas Letter stuffed into a Christmas card are in the past? We have succumb to the popular printed photo card and figured that those who might want to know more about our year might just read my blog (a shameless plug). This year we decided not to […]

Music Monday: A record 2020 Hurricane Season is almost over


November 16, 2020

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Music Monday: The passing of an old favorite – Jerry Jeff Walker


November 2, 2020

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A trip to Florida so that Encore could function on 12 volts again


January 30, 2020

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Archiving Taylor’s 30th birthday party with photos and video


June 11, 2019

We had a great 30th birthday party for Taylor and his friends on Saturday in the backyard … just as we have many times before. As a parent it is nice to know he has always enjoyed bringing friends to our house rather than going someplace else … and seemingly his friends are okay with […]

Music Monday: Once upon a time, I saw the 1967 musical Hair


April 8, 2019

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Music Monday: “Pacing the Cage” – Bruce Cockburn


July 24, 2017

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Music Monday: Out of the box adding a Brenda song – Freebird


July 10, 2017

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Music Monday: License to Chill, Carolinas and reminiscing


May 15, 2017

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Music Monday: Another year and more Van Morrison


April 17, 2017

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Generator, Curtain, Solar and overheating diesel on Encore


December 11, 2016

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How to get out of a common-cold, runny nose induced funk


May 17, 2016

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Music, mood, memories … Incommunicado.


April 26, 2016

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A Ben Bernanke cameo in The Big Bang Theory? #TBBT


February 19, 2016

It is fun finding out about cameo appearances in movies and TV programs … as I mentioned the other day with singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Another cameo tidbit popped up after this week’s popular The Big Bang Theory sitcom. According to the commentary on FoxBusiness, the previous Fed chair Ben Bernanke and his wife are big enough […]

Reflecting on my personal journal and blog through the years


February 20, 2014

Those who are regular readers of My Desultory Blog realize that besides posting commentary on newsy items, be it tech, cars, aviation, politics or whatever, that I also include personal entries and photos relating to my family. This blog, now 4000 posts, is a continuation of a journal that I started in 1977 as a […]

JB and JB performing together in 2013 on May 2nd & 4th


March 11, 2013

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Music Monday: Escapism – I think we all need it some days


June 4, 2011

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DJIA crosses 12000 as the business climate improves


January 26, 2011

A comment in President Barack Obama’s State of the Union call for corporate tax cuts and a spending freeze along with good corporate earnings reports have helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average to cross the 12000 mark. Let’s hope jobs follow? On a totally separate subject, I just heard that singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett fell from […]

The “show must go on” as the Tropical Storm Alex continues NW


June 29, 2010

As the gulf coast continues to clean up oil damaged shorelines, folks in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida resort businesses welcome home grown singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who with some friends will be helping to promote tourism with a free beach concert Thursday night. While oil gushes and a more noticeable oil slick moves closer to the […]

BP Oil Spill: Two months after the disaster


June 22, 2010

  The BP Oil Disaster is bound to be the story to remember 2010 by as historians archive this year. Like most Americans who’ve travelled and enjoy the gulf coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, I’m disgusted and saddened by the damage that is being done to the economy, coastline and ecosystem. As we […]

The weather is here, I wish you were …


June 10, 2007

Well that actual word to finish this lyric is “beautiful,” but I either ran out of room or didn’t want to offend anyone. Nevertheless it was too nice to be pecking at the computer and instead I spent the weekend outside. I did a little (in the ‘full meaning of the word’) work in the […]

Music Monday: a commercial for Applebees, John Sebastian, Television themes songs and Welcome Back Kotter (1975-1979)


June 7, 2021

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