Teachers' Lounge

First time on FLYP

and I like what I see/hear/read.

Hooked on The Low Anthem

 Good stuff at FLYP.

Check out the instruments in this video. 

I bought Oh My God, Charlie Darwin today. Ordered What The Crow Brings from their online store. Plus, I received a free instant MP3 download of same. I deserve a beer. 

The Low Anthem... just wait till you hear!

Two cuts... Charlie Darwin and To Ohio (lots more on this page). 

The following links go together like...

The Rest is Noise

Lionhead Milo Project

Shot In The Back Of The Head  

The Great American Fourth of July

Jean Shepherd!

America (Shooter's dad)

Sing it, Waylon

Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 -- February 13, 2002) was a respected and influential American country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. He escaped death in the February 3, 1959 plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson when he gave up his seat to Big Bopper.

After a brief performing and recording career in Phoenix, Arizona he moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he did not fit in with the tightly organized music industry in that city. By the 1970s, he had become associated with "Outlaw" country music, an informal group of musicians that worked outside of the Nashville corporate scene and included Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. A series of duet albums with Nelson in the late 1970s culminated in the 1978 crossover hit "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys". In 1979 he recorded the theme song for the hit television show The Dukes of Hazzard, and also served as the narrator ("The Balladeer") for all seven seasons of the show.

Jennings had a history of substance abuse, though he was clean by the mid-1980s. He continued to be active in the recording industry, forming the group The Highwaymen with fellow "Outlaws" Nelson, Cash, and Kris Kristofferson. Jennings released his last solo studio album in 1998. In 2001, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Shooter Jennings (Waylon's kid)

4th of July  

The agitator is the center post in the washing machine that gets the dirt out

Happy Fourth, Agitators!

Strange is no stranger to me

First listen - Dark Night of the Soul

Review

Official website

An alternate Motherbucker!

My brother told me that the original lacked sound quality. I told him to turn up his hearing aid. But, in deference to my brother, I'm serving this one up with, tada!, much improved sound quality. Barf bags optional. (This was shot by my wife, standing in the wings. I guess this was before image stabilization.) The video runs over cause I'm not real skilled at setting endpoints. No matter. It's all in fun.

 

The Fourth

Already I'm starving.

Why am I surprised/not surprised?

I'm 62 years old. I'm trying to keep up, ya know, with the social trends of the minute/second. But, I gotta admit - I was blind-sided by this piece in What's Up.

(The preceding was written on two glasses of red wine. Hoorah!)  

(Okay, yeah, I had a bunch of stoopid spelling mistakes in this post. Yeah, it was probably the wine. Took me three tries to make things right. I like things right. Right? ) 

If I told you I'd have to kill you

Took me about three hours to write my short short (about 300 words) story for NPR's Three-Minute Fiction contest. I had planned to publish it here, but after reading the contest rules I decided to hold off.  But I'll tell you this. I'm a weiner!

Motherbucker!

I sent my brother a bunch of eclectic links this morning...

...and you, dear reader, may find one or more of interest. Read serendipity.

http://dedroidify.blogspot.com/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson

 

http://www.matrixenergetics.com/

 

http://abetalk.com/showthread.php?t=2938

 

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=JezebelDecibel&view=videos

 

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/24/the-blue-and-the-green/

 

http://solfeggiotones.com/download/

 

http://www.kiiraa.com/recommendation.aspx

 

http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/sseg.php

 

http://www.fantasticcontraption.com/

 

http://www.wolframalpha.com/index.html

 

http://www.bing.com/

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/

 

http://www.odysseyofthesoul.org/synopsis/Self_muscle_test.htm

Rockin' Robin

I still don't know much about Twitter. This opinion piece helped me understand why Twitter is relevant (it ain't about what I had for breakfast). Educators, take note. Tech & Learning offers up 25 ways to teach with Twitter.

Serendipity (again)

Ideas are toys.

Believe nothing.

Explore and question everything.

Searching for a quote by John Lilly, I came upon Dedroidify. You will love it. And you will love it even more when you explore the blogroll. That's how I found organelle.  

The only love poem I ever wrote

After listening to Summer of Love I submitted Attending Marvels. 

One word

Zombies!

All is well

My friend turned up yesterday. He is well and very happy. 

Always nice to discover someone like her

Check out this lady.

Then check out her music. Pay attention to the Solfeggio tracks.