Sometimes you run across a situation which makes you laugh — not because it is inherently funny, but because of the element of surprise, irony, or unpredictability. This week I stumbled across just such wonderful revelation. Ever since my college years — when I was an aspiring guitarist and composer with far more dreams than…
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Jack Daniels On Tour
Archives Cleaning out your garage is not exactly my idea of a great way to spend the weekend. But, every now and then, you find some little treasure that makes it all worthwhile. Such was my good fortune last month. Amidst the boxes filled with old check registers, broken parts from kids’ bikes, and other…
Guitar Wizardry
https://youtu.be/jdYJf_ybyVo?si=cbc45UB1_l4-QOPIFor those of you who are guitar players (as I was in a former life), or admire guitar players, or have played air guitar when you thought no one was looking, here’s a rather amazing performance by John Butler. What amazes me most about this performance is that he is working his magic on a…
Grace 4 U2
If you peruse (or endure) the parade of celebrity interviews on social media or TV, you will before long encounter testimonials about some newfound “spirituality”— be it New Age, Buddhism, Gaiea, Scientism, Wicca, etc. etc. — which has transformed their already charmed lives. One does wonder what their life was like before this sea change,…