Blue Heron Blast

I saw a funny letter in the San Diego Reader this week. It's a cult people I see the religious order known as the Hare Krishna back i...

Both Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich expressed reservations today about continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. Kudos to them, for once I...

My batting average in the Los Angeles environs remains dismal. I could have pulled two grand out of my pocket and just burned it, saving a ...

One of the greatest pure singers of all time. Conway always gave it his all.

Have you been following the Amish hair cutting trial? To refresh your memory, a renegade Ohio Amish sect was running around cutting off fell...

According to the good folks at Google, who provide me with a free blogger platform for the Blue Heron Blast, without allowing them to advert...

Superb John Huston version.

This is one of the last songs that Patsy Cline ever recorded. A song by Harlan Howard, country western scribe without peer. Staton's v...

Imagine wearing a piece of your clothing that will also charge your cellphone. The technology is here. Check out this link from the Wake Fo...

California and Western Medicine Vol. 45, No. 5, c. 1936 Tracy sent me a note this morning. So, do you still think that "they...

I think that Barack Obama has been a decent president, he has done a fair job with a very crappy hand. He has disappointed me on various fro...

I have some nice new paintings and prints that I will be exhibiting this weekend in Glendale at the Antiques and Objects Show. Please look ...

I got a few beautiful notes from the DeGaston family today that I can not exactly divulge. But I thank them all for the messages and am happ...

The great sage once noted that life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. This was going to be the spring we went to...

I had a dream last night that I was on stage with the Band. We were playing on a balcony of an ornate two story building in the French Qua...

It would be an understatement to say that things weren't going too swimmingly up in the Grand Old Party's ivory tower. Ira T. W...

Paul De Gaston - River Nile The tale continues: I got this letter the other day: Regarding My Grandfathe r, Paul DeGaston, your eni...

Far be it for me to bag on Kansas. The state gave us Dennis Hopper, Elvira and Charlie Parker, amongst many other fine citizens. Ethel Me...

The Syrian regime has circled the rebel city of Homs today and will soon make operational its plans to destroy the city. The word "clea...

A judge in Mechanicsburg, PA, Mark Martin, rules that a muslim man has the right to attack another man who insults the prophet Muhammad. And...

Barry is an old friend who I haven't seen in ages.  This song was written by the late Danny Whitten of Crazy Horse.

It is raining pretty hard outside. I thought about going home but if I do I will just eat and play on the computer so I might as well write ...

This was a comment on Huffpo today. I obviously don't agree but still think it is kind of funny.

Leslie, my beloved spousal unit, is taking a bell making class at the Fallbrook School of the Arts foundry this weekend. She is working un...

The Past behind me- a new day. Paul DeGaston The two sisters called me yesterday morning. A dealer in Escondido had recommended that I...