Amazing follow-up in the comments! – JHF That’s tiger-striped walnut you’re looking at. Audrey Y. H. Miller of Mouth of Wilson, Virginia made this Scottish dulcimer for me back in ’76 or thereabouts. It’s a replica of one a member of her family found hidden in the ceiling of an old log cabin, ancient as [...]
Music
Some things just have to be experienced. I was there!
[NOTE: The following is adapted from an 8-13-2009 post at my old blog] The poster is a Gilbert Shelton (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Wonder Wart Hog, etc.) classic I’m proud to own. I can reach out and touch it now from where I sit. But the story starts with Shiva’s Head Band, my favorite Austin [...]
The walls have ears—and rattlesnakes! (Los Ojos)
[Sea shanty, origin unknown] Under the moldy elk, and over the bounding main some things are so terrible, you never can explain and when the wind do blow, with icy rain and snow it’s under the moldy elk, and over the side we go Chorus: Under the moldy under the moldy under the moldy elk [...]
Taken about an hour before the Fiestas parade
I should get one of these. Not the ponytail, the bike, so I can drop it and kill myself. I’ve got plenty of money to buy one, but that would shoot the so-called house down payment right between the eyes. What a way to go, though. I think of this every time I hear that [...]
The first thing that happened today was that I got mad because I got a “gift.” Two of them, actually. Both packages contained books, giant software manuals the size of big city telephone books. I’d originally signed up to review them, so I could get them for free, naturally, but the moral burden proved crushing [...]
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