Author Archives: gongmaster

Administrative carping, aka progress

Posted on 2021/09/27 by gongmaster

Just venting a little frustration over the cPanel migration and MediaWiki in general. Continue reading →

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Liquid Frequency

Posted on 2017/02/25 by gongmaster

[Posting for a friend…] 1978 One afternoon following orchestra rehearsal, I was standing near the stage door and I noticed a tall, thin man with very long, dark hair. He had soft, brown eyes and chiseled features. I’d never seen … Continue reading →

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China Calling

Posted on 2015/05/24 by gongmaster

We can all thank Chris Hyatt for his efforts to transcribe and preserve major portions of Eugene X. Rator’s oeuvre. The mountain of converted, digitized media is growing and some of us are following up now, editing and annotating, commenting … Continue reading →

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collectors’ items

Posted on 2015/04/01 by gongmaster

…in which I contemplate broken dolls and the sequencer of my dreams… I had the joy of a delayed childhood with regard to electronic music, which I discovered as a real thing sometime around 1985. I had no protracted formal … Continue reading →

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A passing

Posted on 2013/05/11 by gongmaster

Eugene X Rator at New Music America, 1982 Whether you know him as Rick Calderon, Eugene, Rator, or someone else, he left the building for good on May 1, 2013. It will take some doing to craft a fitting memorial, … Continue reading →

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Still Bucka after all these years

Posted on 2013/05/11 by gongmaster

On 5/3/13 2:09 AM, Jim Christopulos wrote: > Hi, > > Just found the Dekalborama website while doing a web search for Rick > Calderon. Just heard earlier that he passed on. Very, very sad news as > he was … Continue reading →

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To the Neoteric diaspora

Posted on 2012/05/19 by gongmaster

Naturally, the web already has a “Diaspora Project.” But so shall dekalborama. And now I sense a digression coming on…. Redundancy is, after all, the new herald of popularity. Come to think of it, it was also the old one. … Continue reading →

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Firing Stage 2

Posted on 2012/04/15 by gongmaster

Well, it’s probably clear by now I’m not much of a blogger: it’s been almost three months since my last post on this site. Yet dekalborama.com has pretty much consumed my spare time in those months—not complaining, just stating the … Continue reading →

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Raising the barn

Posted on 2012/01/18 by gongmaster

This post shares its title with the current task list over at dekalbowiki. My last two weeks have been largely devoted to the heavy lifting of whacking the MediaWiki installation into place, reimplementing the WordPress look and feel, and starting … Continue reading →

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Ice fishing

Posted on 2012/01/06 by gongmaster

It’s been quite a week here for re-creation: that is, I am relearning the lessons of getting wikigong.com launched, reconfigured, and launched again, as I apply them to dekalborama.com. Now that we’re in that site’s third trimester, it seemed a … Continue reading →

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