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 [...]
August 12, 2010
Enjoy Thyself
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 [...]
August 12, 2010
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Third Eye Re-opens
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 [...]
August 4, 2010
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Be there when the Third Eye opens
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 [...]
July 31, 2010
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Tee Time
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 [...]
July 28, 2010
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Times Three
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 [...]
July 16, 2010
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Abbracci Gratis
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 [...]
July 16, 2010
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Why Golf?
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 [...]
July 15, 2010
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Subway Star Wars
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.

August 19, 2010
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