Thursday, July 30, 2009

Street Scenes in Niamey, Niger

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Want to take a walk? Click on for a larger photo.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Library Book Drop

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In Newton Massachusetts after a three day weekend From the 07/28/09 issue o f New Yorker magazine.
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Love at the Five and Dime - Nanci Griffith

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A favorite song. R.I.P. These Five and Dime — "downtown" — department stores are gone forever: S.H. Kress (1896-1981) J.J. Newbe...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Deep Thoughts

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From Jack Handey's interstitial segments on Saturday Night Live (1991 - 1998) Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in th...
Friday, July 17, 2009

Back After This Commercial Break

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(embed removed by video owner) Click on: Velvet Jones - Eddie Murphy
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Sunday, July 5, 2009

Neko Case

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Deep Red Bells “It’s based on the Green River killer,” she says. “When I was a kid in Tacoma, we were all scared all the time. I actually ca...
Sunday, June 21, 2009

Roseanne Cash

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I like her. Some more ? I Don't Know Why Seven Year Ache
Monday, June 8, 2009

Edvard Munch's "Scream"

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Friday, June 5, 2009

The Kudzu Chronicles — Poetry of the South

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By Beth Ann Fennelly . She and her husband, Tom Franklin , a short story writer, both teach at Ole Miss . In my opinion, Beth Ann Fennelly ...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

"Mad as Hell"

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Wonderful Peter Finch (as Howard Beale) scene in the movie: Network . In my opinion, this is a great, satirical Paddy Chayefsky/Sidney Lumet...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Big Joe Williams

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The material for this interesting post was provided by Joe B. Stewart, who knows an awfully lot of stuff about an awfully lot of stuff. You...
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A first grade girl handed in this drawing for a homework assignment. After it was graded and the child brought it home, she returned to scho...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

Mississippi Delta Blues, Robert Johnson

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Robert Johnson is one of the most admired and influential Delta blues artists despite his short life and the small number of recordings that...
Monday, May 4, 2009

A Favorite Poet

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Triolet * Why should the Devil get all the good tunes, The booze and the neon and Saturday night, The swaying in darkness, the lovers like s...
Friday, May 1, 2009

A New Product — as seen on TV

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"Hey, Billy Mays here, and this stuff REALLY works! Only $19.95. But wait, there's more. Order today and we'll send you, no, ...

Vern Gosdin R.I.P.

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August 5, 1934 - April 28, 2009 A favorite singer of sad, sad country love songs. " That Just About Does It ... " "Do You Bel...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Deep Sunset in Destin, Florida

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Looking west, out over Choctawhatchee Bay. Wringing out the last bit of day.
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Monday, April 20, 2009

Kathy Mattea

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Another singer I like. "A Few Good Things Remain"
Saturday, April 4, 2009

Used Poem VI

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    Requiem for a Mind Hands trembling hold the chair Across her forehead knots of hair Concealed her dying brain within, Each tiny cell a r...
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Don Williams

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"Good Ole Boys Like Me" This song pretty well "nails it" for many of us growing up in the '50s — in the South .
Friday, April 3, 2009

Korean Car Ad — Funny

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Sunday, March 29, 2009

A Favorite from the Eighties

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I don't like many songs of the 80s. This one I like: "The Living Years" – Mike and the Mechanics Father: William David James ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Photos by Eudora Welty

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Before she was a writer she was a photographer. Photos are titled: "Sunday Morning", "Underwear"and "Kite". ...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Eva Cassidy

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September 2, 1963 — November 2, 1996 "Songbird" More about Eva, her life, her sad death.
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Despair

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Aimee Mann

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One of my favorite singers from her CD: "The Forgotten Arm " and the video is from some TV show called "House". Click it...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Namib-Naukluft National Park — Namibia

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The Deadvlei area in Namib-Naukluft National Park — the dunes of the Sossusvlei — in the oldest desert on earth.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Gary Stewart — a tribute

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May 28, 1945 - December 16, 2003 In my opinion, Gary Stewart is one great "Honky Tonk" Country singer. His Sad Life...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Johnny Cash — a tribute.

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February 26, 1932 - September 12, 2003 I Still Miss Someone With Kris Kristofferson Sunday Morning Coming Down
Monday, February 9, 2009

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

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If five years ago, someone had asked me, “what about a duet fusing rock star, Robert Plant (age 63, former terrific lead singer with Led Zep...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

Airlines - A Fading of Dynasties

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By clicking on the below link, I promise you a treat. The Way It Was There are only a few of these airlines still flying. This time next ye...

Catching Her Drift

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Going to college in Nashville, I had a girlfriend, Lynne Lastname , from Evansville, Indiana. Pretty. Tall, thin, long blonde hair. A “real”...
Saturday, February 7, 2009

Photo and story. Mystery solved.

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I've been haunted by the frightened beauty of this little girl since I first saw her photo in National Geographic Magazine the mid-80s. ...

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Friday, February 6, 2009

Photography ( the eyes have it.)

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Photography and Photo Titles by Stefan Beutler Subject: Katharina Location: Erfstadt, Germany Click to enlarge "In The Dark" ...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

An Edward Hopper Retrospective

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For those who don't know, Edward Hopper is a mid-20th century realist painter and print maker. He's a favorite of mine. This slide s...
Monday, January 19, 2009

"My Lover Will Go"

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The Photography? by Daria Endresen The Music? by Ane Brun
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Used Poem V

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Foster Woman              Her needful body’s chain of custody  Was often passed around. And she sometimes called herself  The Isle of Man.  ...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

Must Love Dogs... to Love this Book.

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I’m not much good at writing a book review. I’d much rather discuss it with someone who has also read the same thing, but, when I finished...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

Carolina Chocolate Drops

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I know I posted this on the "class" blog a few months ago, but, I love these folks.
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Used Poem IV

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Two Different Worlds The boy was sure of something, She was just the ...
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Friday, December 26, 2008

Herding Cats

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

A Song By Lucinda Williams

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"Something About What Happens When We Talk"
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Used Poem III

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Silence Is The Perfect Answer For days, she painted blue. She painted until she was drunk with blue, Until lines grew thick, like Picasso’s ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Lake Okeechobee, Fl- Fishing w/Son.

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Photos: #1 At dawn, #2 9lbs.10oz, #3 Snowy Egrets
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Monday, December 15, 2008

"Dublin Blues"

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I'm really taken with Texas Country Rock. I think it's the honesty I feel in the lyrics. Maybe it's another acquired taste... l...
Friday, December 12, 2008

"Crying", Roy Orbison & K.D. Lang

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Great song. These two enhance it with one of the best duet treatments of a popular song. Movie out takes in the video are from "Hiding ...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

"Blue Girl"

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By Sabrina Cabada
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Graham Gordy - Great article on writing

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Double click on each page to make the type large enough to read.
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Farm Sounds

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Blues Singer's Woman Permitted To Tell Her Side

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Ida Mae Dobbs, longtime woman of Blind Willie "Skipbone" Jackson,Sent me a letter to respond to charges levied against her by the ...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Judgmental

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Tonight Will Be Fine

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Teddy Thompson sings a Leonard Cohen song. And he does it very well, in my opinion. "Tonight Will Be Fine" "Embed" deni...
Saturday, November 8, 2008

My Hometown

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Bruce Springsteen — One of his more poignant songs. Some truth in it... for lots of folks.

So, now you wanna sing da Blues?

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Subject: How To Become a Blues Musician — as it was told to me. 1. Most Blues always begin, "Woke up this mornin'..." 2. ...
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Rake

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By Townes Van Zandt — One of my favorites. TVZ's music sort of speaks to life "en el otro lado." "Well, many of the song...
Friday, November 7, 2008

Short, Short, Short Story II

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Where do I find these things? A Brave New World Already eight years old and, still, he'd never even tried the closet door. Too scared. ...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Three By Leonard Cohen

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A favorite poet, singer, song writer. Maybe an acquired taste? "I'm Your Man" Poem — a word song, actually. ...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sarah Silverman humor

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 My favorite Sarah Silverman jokes:   "I drank and smoked during pregnancy and then I read the pamphlet and called my mom and said, ...
Friday, October 31, 2008

Ugh! Another of his Jokes.

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A woman meets a man in a bar. They talk; they connect; they end up leaving together. They get back to his place and as he shows her around ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Why Writers Write

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Why We Write Scott Archer Jones How to articulate the word's commanding need? In a stunning book about writing, Donald Murr...