Blue Heron Blast

Sarah Palin was photographed in Israel wearing her Star of David necklace this week. I don't know about you but I find it a little patro...

The world seems to be getting a little uglier of late, in my little corner and on the big stage at large. Wars and rumors of wars, suicide b...

A song by the late, great Ronnie Lane.

My friend Kerry is a professional photographer who has lived in the Grand Canyon for the last twenty or so years. He sells more photograp...

My buddy Brett is a very successful fine and commercial artist and maybe even a better photographer. Here are a few pictures of his that we ...

Shawn sends more pics of strange asian bugs and wild pineapples from his nest in Thailand.

Jon Harwood is a friend, teacher, photographer and reader of the blast. He came by yesterday while I was trying out some experimental techni...

The late, great Tommy Makem sings one of the most soulful songs that you will ever hear.

Robert DeGoff sent over this link to an excellent NPR Fresh Air story, an interview with Bloomberg's Jesse Drucker entitled  How Offsho...

From ABC News: The Japanese have evacuated most of the reactor personnel from the Fukushima nuclear complex and are rotating teams of 50 wo...

There are two camps when it comes to food, the folks who eat to live and those other unfortunate swine who live to eat. Sadly, I fall into t...

My friend Michael sent me this sad but eloquent testimonial for his friend Bill. Robert I want to share this story with you, I have atta...

A real life cautionary tale is playing itself out in the State of Pennsylvania. Governor Tom Corbett is ceding environmental controls in hi...

©Ben Curtis A.P. Ben Curtis, the A.P. photographer in Libya, has captured some really beautiful shots of late showing pro Gaddafi fighter...

The earth belches and the plates shift, sending the planet careening off its axis and moving the japanese coast eight feet off its bearings....

I had two people walk up to me and ask me if I was dying yesterday. One I knew, the other was a stranger. Apparently that is the word going ...

Digging this country jag - stick with me a little longer.

There's nothing that America loves more than a great train wreck. I confess to not being able to keep away from Lindsay's latest ne...

I was thinking about the standoff in Wisconsin this afternoon and I had to ask myself a question. The dynamics of the schism seem to be cons...

I heard a very interesting interview on Terry Gross's Fresh Air today with ex CIA husband and wife Dayna and Robert Baer. They have just...

Friday the National Pork Board decided to table their old " Pork - the other white meat " slogan for the new and trés catchy, ...

Nice version of the old Gene Clark song by Gram and the Burritos.

The world is getting stranger by the day. In Wisconsin, a resolution passed by the state Senate today orders the Sergeant at Arms, if the De...

The end of this classic Harlan Howard song is also unfortunately cut... A great tandem on this Rodney Crowell song.

The neighbor really doesn't like you. You are a lesbian couple living in the south. She says, "I'm going to burn your house dow...