Blue Heron Blast

My wife's mother Ruth passed away yesterday. She was a gallant woman who fought the valiant fight against a terrible disease, multiple s...

Out of all of the books I read in college, I think that I may have recommended this one more than any other. The book,  The Power of Limit...

Warren Bishop sent this cute little film over. Richard Hudgins sent over this valuable piece of info. If you deactivate from Facebook, t...

These are some more of the photographs I took of Jon Harwood's sweet and mint 1928 Voigtlander. My father was a World War II photographe...

It has not been a real good week in the Islamic world. Syrian tanks surrounded the northern Syrian city of Jisr al-Shughour and after uproot...

This is a Gene Clark song, written a few months after he left the Byrds in 1966. The singers in this version of one of my favorite unsung ...

Last night was the first night of Hot Summer Nites, the every other Friday Fallbrook event where people come downtown and drink beer, liste...

My friends' Jim and Wendy Murphy's boy Conrad was involved in a horrible car accident in April. I am sure that you read about it, he...

It has been an interesting week on the environmental front. Former Arizona Governor and Clinton Administration Secretary of the Interior Bru...

We were sitting around outside the coffee shop the other day talking about the exorbitant price of food . Basic food stuffs. Bread, cereal, ...

I went to the atm this morning and locked the key and phone in the car. Took forever for the locksmith to get off his previous call and I ha...

Rep. Anthony Weiner has stepped on his schmeckel. Maybe  Probably fatally. Another in a long line of politicians that let their over inflate...

Sometimes it pays to be on the wrong side of the technologic curve. I have two ipods and still can't really figure out how to dial them ...

Circa 1966 - James Moody and Zoot Sims on saxophones, Clark Terry and Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Teddy Wilson on piano, Louie Belson on ...

Barack and Michelle are having that German couple, the Merkles, over for the State Dinner and  a little canasta. I reprint the menu that was...

Having looked at my bank statement this morning and feeling pretty broke, I have decided to cast away a few treasures, a few of them recentl...

The masthead for the blog is a picture of a beautiful navajo germantown weaving that I liquified in Photoshop. Germantown wool is a three or...

My friend Daisy Deadhead took this picture outside a comicon in Charlotte. Somebody must really hate the catholics, an obvious triple threa...