Hundred Mountain

Hear my latest musical adventure, IO and the IONs,  in a Third Eye Cabaret show from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 14, at Taylor Books in Charleston, W.Va., with special guests Option 22. One of the songs we’ll be doing is this one, “Enjoy Yourself,” a 1949 tune by Carl Sigman and Herb [...]

After a successful opening in Princeton, W.Va., last Saturday night, Third Eye Cabaret re-opens at Taylor Books in Charleston, W.Va., this Saturday, Aug. 14, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., featuring IO and the IONS with special guests Option 22. We spent the last week at the official Third Eye Cabaret Camp at The RifRaff Arts [...]

click poster bigger. In case your browser does not properly display the above information, be there at a pleasing spectacle of theatrical music as THIRD EYE CABARET, featuring Io & the Ions and Option 22, opens up three times in the weeks ahead, starting this Saturday. The Cabaret features the original music of Io, with [...]

I have not had much time to blog, much less to breathe, chasing golfers and weaving through crowds without stabbing people in the back with my tripod as I’ve been shooting video for the Charleston Gazette on the PGA Tour at The Greenbrier Classic this week. Here is a video guide to the show going [...]

Quite beautiful and thrilling. A dance of lightning strikes three buildings at once on the Chicago skyline and then fractures and crackles the sky in amazing ways. A reminder that though humans think we rule the Earth, Gaia is still in charge. We are just lodgers in her house. Lightning strikes three of the tallest [...]

Horses I have met along the way in the hills and hollers of West Virginia. (Click photo bigger)

I generally distrust video links e-mailed to me from friends and acquaintances that includes a Web address and message like: “From me to you; have a wonderful day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The multiple exclamation points are the usual give-away that some well-meaning soul, moved to the ends of their toes by a slideshow of rainbow photos and quotes [...]

I will be shooting video at the upcoming PGA Greenbrier Classic for the Charleston Gazette, my first visit to the Greenbrier v2.0 since Jim Justice, bless his millionaire Mountain State soul, rescued the place from insolvency. I must admit to having no special feelings for golf perhaps because I have only ever successfully thwacked a [...]

Some people have too much free time on their hands. But this is fun. UPDATE. ~ OK, I have learned a little more about the provenance of this video, concocted by Improv Everywhere.

UNDRUNK Is how I prefer you. I’m just saying. Nothing more than that, my dear. This is no judgment. Nor, god knows, an argument. We, too, after all, were intoxicated with our usual emendation. It’s the sloppy talk that makes me want to slouch outside in streetlamp calm. Fixing on the crescent moon. Its mouth [...]