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courtesy KSAN Jive 95 Dusty Street passed away the other day. Scoop Nisker passed last month. You may not know their names, but if you happened to be in the Bay Area back when everybody who knew what was happening in radio and pretty much everything else was listening to the gang Tom Donahue gathered Read More

credit: Jeremy Thomas on Unsplash Since you’re probably looking skyward Saturday anyhow, have you seen the Milky Way? Of course you have, right? You’re looking at a photograph of it here. Satellites are the tool of astronomy today, seeing the universe from above our atmosphere. A picture may indeed be worth a thousand words, but Read More

Photo by Luca on Unsplash The Harvest Moon A romantic image that one, eh? The Harvest Moon in full. Bringing in the crops. Largesse of the earth that will sustain us. The bounty of agrarian practice to nourish us through the coming fall and winter months. I’ve been thinking a lot about mythologies of the Read More

UNTITLED Artist: Dianne Stromberg – diannestromberg.com The Circle Game. That’s the way life so often seems, how people and things reappear in your life and make you take notice all over again. It happens especially with art and artists. Those experiences and the people who make them continually visit and revisit me. It’s always a Read More

credit: ramparts.com It’s not where it started but it’s where the world took notice in a very big way. $18 got you three days of peace, love, rain and mud, a taste of anarchy and a sense that everything was going to be all right in the end. And it was. And it got you Read More

credit: The Omniscient Observer Credit Well, some of us have to accept credit for lighting up the family, if not necessarily in a manner that was welcomed by them. Certainly not appreciated. Maybe not even understood. Not even by those closest to us. My brother John came to visit a couple of years ago. Drove Read More

credit: mad.com High Art Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band had absolutely nothing on Alfred E. Neuman when it came to gathering the tribe of suspect characters. Maybe it was just because this lineup in support of the What Me Worry Band was more contemporary, the deeds of the bad guys (and gals) fresher in Read More

Photo by Mark Duffel on Unsplash Normative Normal. A cool word to think about. What does it mean, really? In my town, there’s a Normal Street. What must it be like to live there? Can we suppose that by default a residence there is typical? Life itself exactly at the mean? A normal school was Read More