27th Street

Jesse Lege and friends performing the Mamou Hot-step at Augusta Cajun Week, 2016 – in West Virginia.

I want to thank the good folks at Google for flashing me a banner when I sign into Gmail, telling me their sign-in page has a new, modern look. Otherwise I likely wouldn’t have noticed, and that just wouldn’t do. I hope they continue to… Read More

A blast from the past this afternoon. Here are Ian Dury & the Blockheads.

We dropped by Sawmill Sid’s over by the Arsenal Lands, just the other side of Marie Curtis Park. We were looking for edge slices of wood showing all bark, which we would use in conjunction with our bird mosaics. It turned out we were easily… Read More

Growing up, I thought going fishing was the best thing ever, because it meant having adventures with my dad and my brother Joey. Sometimes we would stay overnight at a roadside motel. We had an old station wagon with a big motor and lots of… Read More

The late John Hartford. Banjo, vocal, dancing. Just right.

Tomi Fujiyama….

Tomi Fujiyama…. how is it I’ve never heard her before?