I took an Honorable Mention (tie for third) and a Merit Award (tie for second) in this year’s National Speleological Society cave ballad competition. I am flattered and don’t know exactly how to act in the company of some insanely talented people. The fact that they are all cavers too is just icing [...]
Archive for September 19th, 2008
national speleological society – cave ballads awards
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clarence “gatemouth” brown’s coffin floats away in hurricane ike
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From Yahoo News
Hurricane Katrina chased bluesman Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown from his adopted home in New Orleans to his hometown here on the Texas Gulf Coast, where he died in exile. Now, another hurricane has disturbed his rest.
The 1982 Grammy Award winner’s casket was one of dozens belched up by the ground [...]
canada – sleeping giant to the north
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From Canada Votes – Election 2008
The NDP has fired one of its candidates in British Columbia after a video surfaced of him taking LSD, smoking more than 20 cannabis joints in a single go and driving while under the influence of drugs.
Dana Larsen, a former editor of Cannabis Culture magazine and [...]
new york times – “Dylan’s Poetic Pause in Hollywood on the Way to Folk Music Fame”
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From The New York Times
By JULIE BOSMAN
Barry Feinstein, the rock ’n’ roll photographer, was digging through his archives last year when he came across a long-forgotten bundle of pictures, dozens of dark, moody snapshots of Hollywood in the early 1960s.
And tucked next to the photographs was a set of prose poems, written around the same [...]
