http://www.jonathanramsey.com Jonathan Ramsey is an intimate, acoustic show of Irish and original happy songs of death... life, love, longing, and shame. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For every Starner Jones in the medical community, who wore his despise for the allegedly system-abusing patient he treats as a badge of pride, I believe there are scores --hundreds, thousands(?)- like Dr. Ana M. Malinow, MD. The Houston pediatrician wrote a much more loving, caring, humanitarian letter to our ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/physicians-letter-to-obama-this-one-i-like Lately, I've noticed Dr. Roger Starner Jones' careless letter --of 23 August 2009 to the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion Ledger- making the rounds of the anti-healthcare-reform blogosphere. Jones, an ER physician University of Mississippi Medical Center. During my last shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/fear-and-loathing-in-jackon-dr-jones-over-quoted-letter-quoted-again I would have loved to have done something productive, but I knew going in that 1 Feb would be a day spent away from home til after 10PM. Tonight I will put down a working (perhaps scratch) cut of a new song. I imagine these first weeks will involve an ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/day-1-no-studio-time Here are a couple photos of my studio showing the equipment I'm using. It's pretty minimal --PC, preamps, vocal mic on boom, instrument mic (behind piano), piano (to block view of the instrument mic). http://www.jonathanramsey.com/rpm-2010-studio-photos As a quick update, I've managed to rearrange cables, placing previously errant ones behind the desk. My workspace is coming into shape. I'll post various ideas, working song titles, project titles, artwork, etc, as things progress. I'm also thinking of having you, my friends and fans, post artwork possibilities. We can ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/rpm-challenge-2010-getting-into-shape [caption id="attachment_641" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Ardour - Open Source Recording Software"][/caption]Over the weekend, I did much more cleaning and moving of stuff in our lower level. This included some rearrangement in the studio, as well. I'm not ashamed to post photos of the mess, but I'm afraid it would be confusing ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/more-cleanup-more-writing-6-days-remain Tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate Day 2009, and to celebrate, I've put up a new t-shirt design. In addition, use promo code PIRATEDAYTEE to save $3 on t-shirt purchases. That's not a bad deal. So, head over to Zazzle to check out the tees available. If you're a Jonathan Ramsey ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/talk-like-a-pirate-day-2009-t-shirts-and-pirate-day-sale C'est moi, at Felix's in Dogtown. It's a small moment in Saint Louis Irish Music History, folks. Okay, it's a song. Check it out. http://www.jonathanramsey.com/arthur-mcbride-at-felixs-in-dogtown-saint-louis-mo I read and hear so many wrong things about the proposed healthcare reform bill. I would love to find a reasonable response to it, but it doesn't seem to exist. Faux News Channel spews so many false statements daily, that somewhere a counter must be spinning. There are way too ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/why-we-need-a-government-option-for-healthcare This Friday, join me as I host the opening of the Genre Wars 2009 Pre-Party at Felix's in Dogtown. Don't think "Battle of the Bands", that well-worn elimination gimmick. In Genre Wars, bands of various genres --metal, blues, folk, Irish, Tuvan throat song, what have you- perform songs from outside ... http://www.jonathanramsey.com/saint-louis-music-genre-wars-at-felixs-friday-19-june