Category Archives: The Life Part

Louis Armstrong on the Tables..

I recently did a remix for my Brit friends Simon Littlefield and Nigel Summerley. We met these two last summer, when they were playing in the fine rock group Sky Pirates and did a gig with them at The Borderline in London..memorable for Rena and I getting lost on the way back to our hotel [...]

Agreed..

this is the second part of a testimony from 3/16/08..please watch it all the way through.
 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-iTdxBECos8

Magic Sam: Fahnkin’ on the West Side, 1969

Baby boomer bullshit/navel gazing aside..I am from Chicago..and when I was a kid, I lived and breathed Chicago Blues music. While the other kids in my neighborhood were listening to… uhh..I dunnknow… The Association?..I hung out and played music with some older college aged hoodlums who were true fans… One of the best [...]

Art by Joe

Joe Gagnepain is one of our favorite humans..he’s a sculptor, visual artist, and lately has taken up ice carving..because the materials ARE PLENTIFUL AND CHEAP around here. He is “from the area”…and if you think it’s hard being an artist in NewYawk or Yourip or even… Seattle..shit..move out here to the Greater Fox River Valley, [...]

Moses Was Stoned When He Set Ten Commandments, researcher claims

We all know that Moses was high on Mount Sinai when God spoke to him, but were the Ten Commandments a result of divine inspiration alone?
An Israeli researcher is claiming in a study published this week the prophet may have been stoned when he set the Ten Commandments in stone.
According to Benny Shanon, a [...]

Living in America…

Rena and I were watching tv yesterday, something we rarely do unless it’s the BBC World News. Interspersed with the atrocious political ads for the two contenders in the district we live in (IL-14) was this piece on “60 Minutes”. There is a major disconnect in this country with what is going on, and [...]

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