Hundred Mountain

After reading this “editorial” in Kanawha Valley Live, you can see how satisfying it must be to complain in an apocalyptic tones without ever once looking at details.

This is worth the click, a time-lapse  movie of the creation of a sand mandala as part of the exhibit “In the Realm of the Buddha,” up through  through July 18, 2010 at the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. From the Web site about the exhibit: Buddhist monk and mandala master Venerable [...]

It’s a daunting task being an insignificant blogger without visible means of (blogging) support.

A nicely done piece, done simply. With a turnaround, literally, that turns the piece on its head.

I’ve been out and about and away from the blog levers for the weekend, hanging out with baby bald eagles in Southern West Virginia. More about that later. But as to health care reform’s passage last night, what I have to say about it was said ably by Steve Benen at Washington Monthly and Paul [...]

“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
~ Voltaire

I spent part of my youth in Mars. (I know, that would explain a lot.)

The return of Sassy Gay Friend, this time to talk some sense into Juliet. Here was his first visit, to save Ophelia.

Of late, I’ve begun some collaborative musical work, so was intrigued to read one of my musical hero’s thoughts on collaboration. Here is David Byrne on working with a bunch of Brian Eno ‘wannabe’ songs that had languished on a shelf, until Eno turned them over, with some ground rules. Byrne writes: How do these [...]

Here’s me before work this morning. No, not really. This would be West Virginia’s greatest psycho-billy rocker,  the late, legendary Hasil Adkins. (1937-2005). I’m working on a multimedia piece for my newspaper on the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame at Tamarack near Beckley, W.Va. The eclectic exhibit documents a host of performers with W.Va. [...]