When I was growing up, my mom made a very cakey bread at Easter – called babka, usually with a glazed top, a very open texture and a smattering of raisins. While I learned to cook most of the savoury Polish dishes she made for… Read More
The great British painter Howard Hodgkin passed on March 9 of this year, but I only found out about it last evening, which Tuffy P came across something on the internet. He was 84. Mr. Hodgkin made deceptively simple, powerful abstract paintings. In some of… Read More
For fans of the game of Go (wei chi in China, baduk in Korea), there is some news, and surprise surprise, it has to do with Alpha Go, the AI go master who whupped Lee Sedol last year, then whupped top pro players in 60… Read More
With all the wacky crap in the news lately, including outrageous comments by the CEO of United Airlines and 45’s press guy, it occurred to me that Sun Ra was right. There really are other worlds they have not told you of.
Check out Red Baraat….these guys are infectious.
This martin house is a new addition to the back garden. It is unlikely to attract purple martins, which require housing at least 60 feet from a building or tree, elevated 12 to 18 feet high. Armed with this knowledge, I resized the holes… Read More
The video showing a United Airlines customer dragged kicking and screaming from a plane has by now been seen over 6 million people. I’m sure that number is climbing fast. According to news reports, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz called the situation “upsetting”, commenting the… Read More
It’s been a while since Iris Dement was heard around this joint. I’d like to change that tonight. Here she is performing Let the Mystery Be. This is from back in 2008.
Over the years we have accumulated a few different whirligigs, including a sentry, a carousel, a wood chopper and a fisherman. We periodically rotate these on the pole we have set in the front garden. The reason we rotate the whirligigs is because they require… Read More
I’ve long thought double-neck guitars are just showy novelty items, but this morning I was surfing about the YouTube jungle and came across blues uke whiz Manitoba Hal playing his custom made double neck uke. It’s just too much fun. He also uses pedals and… Read More
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