Here's a fun test. How many minutes of this music can you stand to listen to? It has become fashionable for rockers to play with symphon...

Putin says that we are seeing the end of a unipolar world, where one dominant world power calls the shots.  “When they won the Cold War, th...

Sunday will be my late brother Buzz's birthday. Miss him so much as does pretty much everybody who ever knew him. Buzz was sixteen month...

 

I was part of the early group of Nik photographic filter users. Back when they were a San Diego start up around 1995. I paid a considerable ...

  I was walking behind this woman last time we went whale watching in Oceanside. Had to take the snap, like rubbernecking an accident on the...

Jackson Browne wrote this song a long time ago, what was he, 15? 16? Nico did a weird cover early on, then it was covered by a whole mess of...

I haven't been grabbing a lot of the low hanging political fruit.  You can find it everywhere and anywhere, stay perpetually angry if th...

 

 

Leslie and I went to Kung Fu Noodles in Vista for lunch today. Place has been getting rave reviews .  Rated fourteenth best soup dumpling in...

The Wylie family has a horse ranch in De Luz that rescues horses. They have over 60 horses on the ranch and teach riding and do all sorts of...

I had to go to San Diego to melt some silver the other day and since I was near Convoy decided I was in the mood for noodles. I had visited ...

  I really miss going up there!

“By 2029, computers will have human-level intelligence." Ray Kurzweil I won't dwell on this too much but what a great   story ! And...

My favorite Albuquerque swing band, a selection from an album where they are performing the songs of Wiley and Jean. Who are they?   From Al...

  Also known as the San José de Gracia Church. Built between 1760 and 1776.

An interesting old interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson. Another old interview . NYT PLW obit. Peter Lamborn Wilson has died. I can not say...

I think the iron curtain may have ratcheted down on my blog in Russia. Still doing well in China (for now.)  I follow these things pretty cl...

 

Have we humans learned anything from history? Doubtful . But we are really exceedingly good at repeating the same mistakes over and over. An...

  “It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.” Chogyam Trungpa

I have a friend and client coming over today to visit the gallery. Place has not really been in order for the last three months. "No pr...

Right wing pundits are apoplectic about the idiot who threatened to kill Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh. No one would call his action well ...