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Hello and hello, I trust that we are all enjoying the beginnings of a lovely holiday season. After stuffing foodstuffs from no less than 3 Thanksgiving dinners, I am feeling quite properly fueled up for the race to Christmas. With that in mind, I am pleased to offer you all this early gift: a free [...]

As the driver of a rather sweet, roomy, confident pick-up truck, I am often asked to help friends move: A bless-ed curse. After having Thanksgiving dinner at no less than three friend’s houses yesterday, I woke up this morn and did what any honest man would do. I drove straight to Waffle House on my [...]

Ok, so, in my sidebar, in addition to a number of other vague confessions and revelations, I mention that my Chinese astrological sign is “Metal Dog”. In the name of full disclosure, I must confess that this is only partly true. In fact, I am a Metal Dog, but one with special influences, resulting in [...]

Just finished watching a movie tonight called Flicker. The film is both a biography of fellow polymath Brion Gysin, and a history of his stroboscopic flicker device, The Dreamachine. According to our good friends at Wikipedia: The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and scientist [...]

At the end of the day, the world gets weirder by the hour, and everything that crackles across the shortwaves tonight, in insomniac blinkings and the desperate fits of paranoiacs and bad-dreamers, will be splashed across the headlines within weeks, true facts woven from half-truth speculations, blooms barely given time to flower. In these times [...]

What up? Hope you have all been enjoying these latest posts. I’ve been having a ball being in touch more. Thanks as well to all of you who have been listening to and downloading my new CD. Your support makes more music, more blogs and more years in my life possible. Thank you! If you [...]

There are many mysteries surrounding The Beatles. Were they actually working for Military Intelligence/Satanists, assisting in the breakdown of traditional societal mores by providing the soundtrack for a youth culture awash in sex drugs and rock n’ roll? Is Paul really dead? And more importantly for our immediate purposes, what the hell is that chord [...]

You may remember an awkward moment in John McCain’s campaign. In fact, you may remember more than one… I’m talking about the time that he mentioned how he was learning about email, revealing to the whole country that – while he proved to be a tenacious, smart, eloquent candidate – he was woefully out of [...]

God bless the State of Michigan. Not only is it the only state with two peninsulas, it is also the home of the Great Lakes, the largest body of fresh water anywhere on this watery planet. It is a state full of moving natural beauty where one Ernest Hemingway set many of his best – [...]

What up? If you love rock ‘n roll, chances are you love Dion! Even if you are not a fan of the show or the host, Dion gave a great interview and played some live music on Fresh Air today. If you still need some more, check this out… Use this slick toolbox to listen [...]