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Bombs away?
President Obama continues to disappoint and misses a golden opportunity to show leadership globally. Next week a conference will be held in Cartagena discussing land mines. Only two countries in the western hemisphere, the United States and Cuba, hav...
Apologia
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false...
The Bees - Voices Green And Purple
Antique and southwestern art dealers might recognize the pungent guitar of their very own Bob Zinner. This is the hit song of one of the sixties bands he played with, The Bees. He was also in the W.C. Fields Memorial Electric String Band. One of the...
On the declining slope
Favorite blog curmudgeon Millard Fillmore had a birthday yesterday. Fillmore, the pride of the San Fernando valley, got very defensive when I asked him just how many trips around the sun he had actually taken?He says that it is less than 60 and not t...
John Cipollina
A monster of the vibrato, John Cipollina was a treat to see live. The sound is awful here but stick with it and you get a taste of the flavor of one of the sixties best acid rock guitarists. It's a shame there's so few good Quicksilver videos....
Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks

