Year: 2010

It is for me again, when I see how much Muggy loves things like this:

I found these rocks, wouldn’t it be cool if they were dinosaur bones? Dinosaur bones from the Jurassic period – just joking, if anything they would be late Pleistocene. (Click on images for full size): This looks like this egg found in China: This looks like the head of a femur, and it even looks … Dinosaur bones? Or freak rock formations?

Wow, I hope I look this good at 70: Emily Singer writes a terrific review of his birthday bash all-star concert, you can read it here. Apparently it was pretty special, his all star lineup was: Wally Palmar – guitar, bass, harmonica, vocals Rick Derringer – guitar, vocals Edgar Winter – keyboards, saxophone, vocals Gary … Happy 70th Birthday Ringo!

One of our local TV channels KPLR 11 did a feature on this guys ultimate man cave: Check out a photo gallery of it, it’s an amazing 3 stories and 17,000 square foot dwelling in a limestone cave: Photo gallery of the cave house

This pic from Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut who tweets live from the space station. Full story at Discovery.com: Images: Earthly auroras in Skitland, Alaska (top) and viewed from 220 miles above the planet aboard the space station. Credit: Lance Parrish, Spaceweather.com; JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi via Twitter.

“Stare With Your Ears“. When I was a callow youth a buddy of mine turned me on to an NPR program called Wordjazz. It was unlike anything I’d ever heard before (or since) and the genius behind it is “the man with the golden baritone voice”: Ken Nordine. Using a unique technique of overdubbing a … Ken Nordine, Wordjazz and Kilroy

The thought struck me the other night while recording vocals: how many times have I looked at this view, or one similar to it? A mic, popper stopper and some wires and gear? thousands of times.

I followed this guy on twitter the other day @brandonrofl, and checked out his blog Brandon Writes The Wrongs. Turns out he writes poetry, and when I read one of his poems called The Dream I thought to myself, “that could be turned into a pretty cool song”. I was sitting by my Korg at … The Dream by Brandon Elliot (and me)

When I was a kid, I loved watching Jacques Cousteau on National Geographic, I thought he was maybe the coolest guy that ever lived. So much so, that when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up (a question which is still asked of me to this day) I would answer, … The Aquatic Life of Dave’s Fishes