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The Passing Parade 2013.

Congratulations!, if you are reading these words, then you have successfully managed to survive 2013! Not everybody did, of course, and some of those are listed below, people who, in one way or anothere, touched or interested me. It was a black banner year for me, as I have set a new record in that there are 7 people on ( Read more... )

Greetings to the Living, as you must be if you are reading this collection of people who no longer are. Most but not all are somewhat famous. A few were personal friends. None will we meet again in this world, save in our memories. As per usual, this is a list of people who interested or influenced me in some way. Your list would no doubt be ( Read more... )

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Here are some pictures from my recent trip to North Dakota.


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In watching coverage of the Republican Primary Season it struck me, as is usually does, what a weird and distorted picture the media, all media really, present. The main focus of this distortion is not a slanting of the facts, not outright lies, but selectivity on focus. Essentially, they treat it as a state by state horse race. The result of this ( Read more... )

Greetings! If you are reading this it means that you survived 2011. Of course, not everybody did… This is a list of people who died in the last year, people who had one way or another caught my attention while they were alive. I’m sure your list will vary. All in all it was a bad year to have played with either Frank Zappa or Muddy Waters or The ( Read more... )

It is Veterans' Day, and as per usual there is a lot of talk about sacrifice. Usually this is accompanied by flag draped coffins, or images of soldiers with horrible disfigurements or missing limbs, and that is as it should be, but it isn't enough ( Read more... )

This last week I've been spending a lot of Time driving around the area that as of Monday will be my new work area, only to find a number of ghosts there waiting for me ( Read more... )