Hundred Mountain

A Facebook Exchange Considered as a Script by Beckett.

A touching holiday tale of the missing Baby Jesus and the animal that arrived to help out when it was time for him to be born. Woof. Woof.

I created this video for an event honoring the Winter Solstice, called The Solstice Ball. Consider it my unconventional seasonal greetings to you, a bit of meditative, ruminative imagery and music.

Mobile phone visitors: If you cannot view the video player, watch the video at YouTube at this link: Here’s a quick take video slideshow by your faithful citizen of WestVirginiaVille, standing amid the huddled, laughing masses at the Rally to Restore Sanity held today in Washington, D.C., hosted by the inimitable Jon Stewart and Stephen [...]

Click image or here to watch video. So, I encouraged my newspaper colleague, Bill Lynch, to wander into the Milton corn maze, eight acres of twisting, looping, confusing trails amid the corn stalks. I tracked him with a video camera. He got lost. I got lost. We got lost. This is what video cameras are [...]

The Hoopies were out in force at Culturefest 2010, atop a mountain in southern West Virginia.

My musical mate and fellow traveler Kathleen Coffee turned me on this oh-so-nourishing music video. I ask these questions of my own modest musical-artistic ventures almost every day. This song, in its joyful directness and simplicity, answers the questions ‘Why try and be creative?” and “Does anyone care?” with its own lilting echo. How could [...]

Listen. You know who you are, the kind of person who when properly convinced that a road trip is in order undertakes said roadtrip. All the rest of you may stop reading now (except, if you don’t mind, would you please click that arrow in the video above and take a look at the latest [...]

Some people talk a good game and then do … not much at all. Some people put their hands and hearts where their talk is. Like the front line eco-warriors of PickUpAmerica.org. I met these folks while shooting video down Alderson, W.Va., for the PGA Greenbrier Classic. There they were alongside the Greenbrier River, sweating [...]

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 [...]