Blue Heron Blast

This was an interesting week in my life 47 years ago. A lot of my musical history happened 45 to 55 years ago and my memory is surprisingly ...

Ready for some bad news? President Trump is nothing if not an agent of discord and an enemy of established order. One merely has to look at ...

Blogreaders may have noticed that there is a lot more food, birds and music of late and less political material. Well, there is a reason for...

Uneven vocals but I don't think I have ever heard it before. I love Parsons.

  I wanted to cook something simple last night and was hankering for chicken thighs. I decided to do them a bit differently than usual. Last...

  The largest and in many ways most beautiful of all hawk species.

I had wanted to write about it for several weeks. The Trump administration, through the National Science Foundation, had proposed deepsixing...

Thoughtful piece on Israel by Ted Sasson.  Did you read the story about the kid that won't work for jews? Cornell student Austin Franc...

I need a new pillow. I even dreamt about getting a new pillow last night.  I am getting a tmj problem, first in thirty years and I think my ...

  As some of you know, my wife suffers from a rare condition called paroxysmal hemicrania.  It is a subset of cluster headaches aka suicide...

I was talking to somebody, maybe Steve, and he said that the man at the farmer's market told him some of his customers carefully go thro...

50 years ago this week I watched the Grateful Dead do a string of shows at the Boston Music Hall. Boston was a great city to trip around in,...

Jonathan sent me this, I thought it was funny. It is age restricted, you have to watch it on youtube. Give it a shot. https://www.youtube.co...

Just a short note to let Fallbrookians that dear friend of the blast Deliman aka Dominick Grossi is moving to Holland with his lovely wife...

I was talking to a friend this morning who mentioned that she loved when I wrote about food but eschewed the political stuff. I get that. Al...

 

Another Texas story caught my eye. There is a rare break between MAGA Texas and the Federal government. It concerns beef, something Texas ta...

I don't often report stories that I find on Fox News but the Blue Heron Blast is nothing if not fair and this one actually had merit.  ...

I got my first chemo treatment with the new drug yesterday.  It is a gel and the doctor hopes that it will find its way better to my bladder...

GOP welcomes Screwworm back to Texas. * They are watching you. And keeping a file.When it comes to ICE your civil liberties evidently fly ...

I think that this story at Wired is worth looking at. A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after El...

Having a long background in martial arts, I love to geek out on samurai movies.  Have binged Lone Wolf and Cub, Zatoichi and Hanzo the Razor...