Sam Takes A Dive September 23, 2017 You just have to admire my friend Sam Collins. At an age when most widowers would be content watching the tube and taking it… Continue Reading
On Getting Older September 9, 2017 A guitar-slinging friend of mine, Tj Jones, posted a humorous thread on the blue scourge of the internet (Facebook) about discovering he was on… Continue Reading
Personal thoughts (and an interview with Alice Cooper) on the passing of Glen Campbell August 10, 2017 I was very saddened (yet relieved) to hear of Glen Campbell’s passing. I owe a great deal of my musical development as a young… Continue Reading
Mason Williams & Friends LIVE feat Jeff Foster June 20, 2017 Since Aug 2, 1993, an aging VHS video has been safely ensconced in my library. What makes the video special to me is that… Continue Reading
Cinco de Maya 2017 May 6, 2017 Had a ambivalent experience at our Cinco de Mayo dinner with wifey and the grandkids at El Ranchero in Ellettsville last evening. The place… Continue Reading
How shantyboats helped build a culture – YouTube May 1, 2017 This video by Kirsten Dirksen kinda takes me back to the old days… you know, back when I was much newer. Dad was a true river… Continue Reading
Hidden Secrets Of Money series by Mike Maloney – YouTube April 30, 2017 Mike Maloney’s ongoing series — more episodes coming, so check back. IMHO, this series is required viewing if one wants to understand the economic… Continue Reading
SD Video: ‘My Heart Will Go On’ feat Amanda Webb April 27, 2017 Me on guitar and the wonderful Amanda Webb singing the vocal. Continue Reading
SD Video: Alimony Blues by Sam Collins April 27, 2017 Full 1981 album. Read the backstory here. Continue Reading
Memories Of Zagreb/Adriatic Dreams video April 25, 2017 I’m a big fan of YouTube, spending some quality time on there every day streaming a wide range of channels. Some time ago I decided to get… Continue Reading
The Big Damn Deck project March 28, 2017 The Big Damn Deck Deck project – Phase Two A retrospective Oct 3, 2016 – Wifey supreme Rhonda Haggard Foster poses nonchalantly… Continue Reading
Flooring the big room March 28, 2017 My calendar indicates this is another red-letter day, but this time it doesn’t involve a guitar. It was just about a year ago that I was… Continue Reading
Making a mini-garage under the big damn deck March 25, 2017 Doing some tweaking of last summer’s big damn deck project: sealing in the end to make a 10×10 mini-garage. I wrapped the west and… Continue Reading
Wood Stove Project March 14, 2017 The heart of any homestead is, of course, the wood stove. A source of heat, a place to warm food, and the visual center… Continue Reading
‘Memories Of Zagreb’ live at the Hobnob March 8, 2017 My friend, videographer Bill Graham, sneaked into my weekly Wine-down Wednesday gig at the Hobnob in Nashville, IN one evening a couple years ago… Continue Reading
Teaching an old water boiler to cook March 7, 2017 One typically hesitates to mention one’s own deficiencies, but in this product review I’ll make an exception. Truth is… I never learned to cook for squat…. Continue Reading
On the national debt January 31, 2017 Imagine it’s 1913, and the fledgling Fed just printed its first federal reserve note and gave it to you, saying, “Congratulations, we hereby lend you this first-ever dollar, which you are obliged to repay… plus interest”. In your euphoria to get your seaty mits on this dollar, you stop and think… hmmm, there’s this one dollar, which I am obliged to give back… but where is the money I need to pay the interest? It doesn’t exist! Continue Reading
If you were an elephant … | Environment | The Guardian January 29, 2017 You’d be a communitarian. Relationality would be everything. It’s not that you couldn’t survive alone, although there would certainly be a survival benefit from… Continue Reading
Who of us volunteered for this? January 14, 2017 Recently, in support of central planning and big government, a FB acquaintance of mine (IOW, we are strangers who never met in real life but… Continue Reading
Who Invented the Electric Guitar? January 10, 2017 The names of Les Paul and Leo Fender grace many of the most famous electric guitars. Designed in the 1940s and ’50s, their instruments… Continue Reading
