Blue Heron Blast

Received this from my Scottish pal Pat in England today: Hey Robert Hurt my arm this mornin and had to go to hospital for an x-ray, as I was...

I am all for woke but there are times we should not forget common sense. The woke police have now successfully engineered the removal of Spl...

Tommy Roe, like Tommy James, was a master of the short but punchy sixties pop song. Remember this one?

I made my first political donation of the cycle today. To Rep. Ruben Gallego, who is running for Kyrsten Sinema's Senate seat in Arizona...

I drove the seven hours to Mesa thinking very apprehensively about the show. I didn't really have the greatest material and my ego suffe...

 

  I am in Arizona. Jeff W. texted me the sad news about David Crosby.  Our musical heroes are just dropping like flies.  David had one of th...

A 7-11 owner in Texas has been using classical music to drive the homeless people away from his three stores in the Austin area. For the pa...

Finally, after years of looking, I find the entire fire poem on line and not just the song portion. The great Carl Palmer on drums on this l...

New house committee members yuck it up. Everybody is obviously entitled to like and support the candidates and parties of their choice. You ...

 

I hate myself for saying this but there is something about the whole George Santos business I find hysterical.  I love the fact that this gu...

I was reading this article at Newsweek,  Kari Lake's Still Committed to Overturning Governor Election , and it provoked a few thoughts. ...

"You can not cope with vast amounts of information in the old, fragmentary, classified patterns. You tend to look for mythic and struct...

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Water in the Santa Margarita is really flowing. Need to dig out my culvert this afternoon if I want to get out of my driveway again.

I have never been a cook but honestly, have eaten food my entire life, or as long as I remember anyway. Suddenly in the waning years of my s...

From the New Yorker: Field notes on the infinite monkey theorem . By Reuven Perlman

My friends Bill and Sue are fortunate enough to take really good vacations. I am quite envious, to be quite honest.  While their neighbors i...

I ventured down to Viejas Arena in the pouring rain last night to see the San Diego State Aztecs play the New Mexico Lobos. It was raining b...

I saw this man play once, truly marvelous.

People like to talk about the best concerts they have ever attended. I think I would like to write a short post about the worst shows I ever...

Lena and Ron are two of my best friends and they are in Asia for three months. Lena is really like a sister to me, I miss them both a lot. W...