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Sunrise, Still Dreaming
How do you explain what the heart feels, and the mind cries to understand ? It’s early September, shadows growing longer, darker, sooner stretching, inching across my little peninsula making the...
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Clearwater, Flowers, and Overcoming
In late fall of 1958, as a very young boy, I saw armed cars and tanks and soldiers marching through a city. I saw them from the back seat of a car. The city was Little Rock, Arkansas, and school...
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Sunrise,The Dream Continues
(How do you explain what only the heart feels and the mind only hopes to grasp? At the bottom of the page is a link that will probably only deepen the mystery) It’s early September, shadows growing...
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Mountaintop Days
Here begins the story. Thank you to all my friends, alive and departed, who have asked over the years that I do this. So I’ve been digging into my past to begin putting all the chapters into something...
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Mountaintop Days Chapter 2
The morning sun brought warmth to the day, after a night at the foot of the mountain dropped the temperatures into the 20s. The fog rose, as it often did, from the lakes, streams, and bogs; and the...
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For Fame
Sometimes silence from the scary side of life can be just as frightening as the verbosity and pompous attitude of the misfits of show business....
View ArticleThe Frozen Zone
I begin by paraphrasing a line from Richard the Third by William Shakespeare, or as my cool friends like to call him, Willie Shake: Now is the winter of our discomfort, as we shiver and wonder where...
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Bob Dylan and the Bikini
In early 1962 “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens was the Number One song in America. That January “The Twist” by Chubby Checker broke loose, followed by “The Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and The...
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Harvard Square, Moore Than A University
I took a short trip down memory lane last week, wandering through the Village in New York, visiting the Café Wha and Bob Dylan, among others. Now I want to share somememories of a...
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Internet Saved The Radio World
Like most kids, I grew up in the custody of my parents. I call it custody because wherever they went I was mostly obliged to follow. After several attempts to escape at ages 1 and 2, I accepted the...
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8 Track, Cassette and Stereo
8 Track, Cassette and Stereo Music of the 1960’s and 1970’s was saved on an odd piece of recording equipment, the 8-track tape. Formally called Stereo 8, it was cutting-edge technology. April 11 is...
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Show Me The Money, Honey
Well, it’s been one the most uninteresting weeks in a long time. I did go on a spending spree and bought myself a new shirt, but other than that it’s been quiet around Rambling Harbor. The Boston Red...
View ArticleRacism and Snowflakes
Here’s some creative thinking on racism and a story in the podcast about how it works both ways. I have heard that no two snowflakes are alike, and on some scientific level, “they” seem to have been...
View ArticleRock and Roll and Kanye West
My buddy Kanye West got me thinking last week. See, it seems the mouth that bores got booed off the stage in London. It’s not unusual lately for the gonzo-gone West to deliver rants and preach on...
View ArticleTommy Ramone and Other Punks (Also More Rock and Roll)
On Friday July 11, Tommy Ramone died. Born Tamás Erdélyi, he was the drummer and last survivor of the Ramones, whose members adopted the last name used by Paul McCartney to reserve hotel rooms as a...
View ArticleStrange Days and Punks for Salvation
My mind sometimes befuddles me. I don’t know why I think the things I do, but I think them anyway. Here are a few from the past week. In 1980, poet and punk musician Jim Carroll wrote “People Who...
View ArticleLucid Moments
I was having a lucid moment this morning. Going lucid by yourself is not a good idea because you can never be sure about the reality of it at all, so a guide into lucidity is always recommended. In...
View ArticleRadio, Budweiser, Facebook, and Ice Water
As you know, I have been a big critic of one Mr. Kanye West—and Jesus knows he has given me plenty of reason—but I do give credit where credit is due. On August 30 in Philadelphia and August 31 in...
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