Right now at http://www.neilyoung.com. Living With War. Take a listen, take it to heart. (Play it very loud ( Read more... )

Ithaca was beautiful, even in the rain. This is the kind of place one might consider living. It's a strange place, a small Madison or Berkeley, but once you climb the hill to Cornell, it's not small at all. The place is huge, and old and magnificent. Then there's the Commons, what downtown Buffalo should have been like after closing off the ( Read more... )

Saw two movies this weekend: Good Night and Good Luck and Neil Young: Heart of Gold. The films had a few things in common. One, they were portraits of two of the most significant individuals of my lifetime (OK, the first was just about the time I came around). If they weren't perfect films, I liked the side they erred on; wonderfully ( Read more... )

There's another new book out called "The Omnivore's Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals." Heard the author on PBS talking about a "free range" chicken farm he visited in California. Certified free range. Evidently, thousands of chickens are kept in a shed for like four out of their six weeks on earth, or something like that. Well, on the ( Read more... )

There's a new book out that sounds real interesting called: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. About how we mess things up when we try to control or take over foreign governments. Ultimately, the "policy" collapses; it has to. Iran is a good example. We put the Shah in power and it worked real well for about 10 ( Read more... )

Celebrate one and all. The Hammer is no more.

In honor of the greatest sports event on TV, the Masters, this week (the official start of Spring).So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, ( Read more... )

Mayville Bluegrass Festival - (tho they really need to update this site!). Hold June 17-18. Nothing like a summertime bluegrass festival!! Got to make it to this. Besides Rhonda, Richard Greene and many others are going to be there. (BTW, check out this clip of Rhonda (clip 303) on Woodsongs. I've watched this three times - it's an hour-long ( Read more... )

This was the first song with a buddy in college (Frank Balazs where are you now?), me the words, he the music. Well, college and the Old Log Cabin (tavern) on the Canal, now the Long Homestead, a historic landmark (you wouldn't even recognize it). So while not the best, a sentimental attachment maybe."Getting There ( Read more... )

Out on the road today
I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said,
"Don't look back, You can never look back."

-- from Don Henley's "Boys of Summer"