I revamped the Long Branch Mosaics site today. Same content – I just changed the way it was organized and changed some text. It’s more of an all-over approach than the blog theme I was previously using. Tuffy P and I started making mosaics over… Read More
The weatherman has called for a night and day of rain around here beginning at around midnight. Let’s see if we can wish that storm away. Here’s Jim Kweskin and Meredith Axelrod performing Blue Skies. This song was written by Irving Berlin in 1926 and… Read More
The second story in my new Work suite of stories is now up. It’s called Art Job.
Tuffy P and I were just out walking the partners. I don’t know exactly what we were talking about as we got back to the house but it had to do with strong women, and from somewhere deep in her memory banks, Tuffy P came… Read More
It’s not every day I share fife and drum music around this joint. I was thinking about this tune though and when I surfed around the YouTube looking for versions of it, this one stood out.
What a beautiful spring day, the kind of day you want to put the top down and go cruisin’ down the highway. Since we don’t have a convertible, Tuffy P started doing some garden clean-up, while I installed a rain-water collector out back. We decided… Read More
Here’s some Robert Gordon and Link Wray for a Saturday morning… The Way I Walk You don’t hear a lot of rock ‘n’ roll these days, do you? I remember buying my copy of their second record, Fresh Fish Special. That was in the late… Read More
For the guitar pickers out there….here’s Pat Donohue
I grew up in a fishing family. I never thought much about it. It was just what we did, and since my big brother and my dad loved to do it, I loved it too. I remember the first day my father took me to… Read More
Now that I’ve completed the 17 short-short stories which make up the serial I call The Lazy Allen Stories, I’ve decided to continue to write really short stories. The new stories – called Work – will share neither a group of characters nor a story-line.… Read More
27th Street 