I’m trying to figure out just when I made this painting. It must have been sometime in the 90s but I don’t remember what year. I had been out west and met a friend of Candy Minx, a fascinating fellow named Pete, who gave us… Read More
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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
BoomBoom and Ndidi
Here is the 3rd installment of The Lazy Allen Stories. You can also read The Bottle & Can as well as Star Beauty on this blog. These short-short stories are works of fiction – I made them up. Any resemblance to real humans, living or… Read More
Dark as a Dungeon
Here’s Matt Kinman, performing the Merle Travis masterpiece, Dark as a Dungeon. There are a few coal mining tunes around. Let’s listen to The Mountain by Steve Earle, performed here by Mr. Earle withLevon Helm and his band. And to cap off this little coal… Read More
Friday Night Swamp Pop
The poor boy is on the line, and the promised land is coming. Here’s swamp pop king Johnnie Allan with Belton Richard playing some excellent accordion…. As much as I love the way those guys did up Promised Land, it isn’t my fave swamp… Read More
Pierogi-time at 27th Street
Tonight I made up a batch of potato & cheese pierogi for Christmas. I’ve got them freezing on plates like this. Once they’re well frozen, I’ll transfer them to freezer bags. If you simply try to freeze them in bags, you’re apt to wind up… Read More
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic historical novel, by Wayne Johnston. It was published in 1998. I found it in the 27th Street Book Box, and recognized the name of the author, as I’ve previously read his excellent Baltimore’s Mansion. I was afraid… Read More
Long Branch view from the side door Dec 16 2015
Tuffy P posting this morning’s photo from our side door.
Breakin’ up Christmas
I’ve never posted Christmas music on this blog…with the possible exception of Weird Bob Dylan performing Must be Santa Claus. Here’s an Appalachian take on a Christmas song. Hooray Jake, Hooray John Breakin up Christmas all day long Way back yonder a long time ago… Read More
Civilization arrives in Ontario
On my way home from my job today I stopped into a convenient Loblaws to pick up a few items. Lo and behold, what did I see, but displays of genuine honest-to-God beer. Politicians have been threatening to make beer available in groceries stores as… Read More
Carry-on (a small rant)
I’ve been on planes twice in the past couple days. Both times, I watched many people each carrying two stuffed-full bags, neither of which was close to small enough to meet the carry-on limits, waltz onto the plane without anybody from the airline saying, hey… Read More
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