The voting part of the grim quadrennial exercise that we call the presidential election will be over in a matter of days. Then come the counts, recounts, and challenges, and how long that lasts is anybody’s guess. As an alternative to reading the latest polling numbers, here are links to two posts I wrote in 2016 to bring some relief from the news of that election.

For the March  2016 Super Tuesday primary in Massachusetts, I wrote about the Dizzy Gillespie for President campaign of 1964. Here we are 60 years later, and there’s still a lot to like in Dizzy’s platform. For what it’s worth, it’s the only blog post I’ve written that wasn’t about Boston jazz.

Then for the November 2016 election, I went back even further, to October 1948, and one of those things that could only happen in Boston. That’s when the pranksters in the Nat Pierce Orchestra played Harry Truman’s theme song, “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” for the stopped motorcade of his opponent, Thomas E. Dewey. He was probably the only person within earshot who wasn’t laughing.

Why send links to old posts instead of to a new one? Because I seem to have run out of blogging energy. I’ve only written one post in the last seven months, and don’t have any new ones underway. Time for something new… I’ve just paid for another year of website hosting, so the site stays up, although I won’t be adding much new content to it. I’d be interested in hearing from readers as to what should happen to the site content after the year is up.

By which time, I fear, we’ll be well into the 2028 presidential campaign… and we’ll need Dizzy’s wisdom more than ever!