Category: Everyday Stories
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The Blues
There’s so little in the world that manages to take my breath away. Many things I find beautiful, many things inspire awe, but little that takes the breath away. I was listening to Bach’s Violin Concerto in A when I clicked on a link in my NASA Science News talking about a spacecraft heading to…
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Goofus and Gallant Gordon and Innocent Bystander Talk About The White House's Lack of Luv for Satellites Used For Gathering Data on Global Warming
Innocent Bystander: Help! Will, someone not help us?! The White House has arranged it so we are scaling way back monitoring climate change from space which means a perilous loss of data! Rick Piltz, director of Climate Science Watch, a watchdog program of the Washington-based Government Accountability Project, called the situation a crisis. “We’re going…
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The Night Before – another Catastrophic Audio cover
Wasn’t going to post this one but Marty convinced me to. I like the chorus but when I hear what else I did to it, especially at the end there, I feel like our ever reincarnating cockroach, Fred, scuttling as the light hits. Except for last night, finally caught in the bathroom, on the rug…
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Flash Gordon
“Mom, look what I found!” H.o.p., who has felt bad all day, and finally upchucked, not too long ago, every bit of food that went in his stomach since he got up, is feeling suddenly ALL BETTER (still, take it easy there) and comes trotting up to me with my old Star Trek episode guide.…
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For the scrapbook: Casablanca at the park
Cellphone capture with post processing Casablana at the Park At the Jazz Festival, H.o.p. saw a poster on movies in the park, beginning this week. Today’s offering was “Casablanca”. His first communal big screen experience. The green was pretty well packed but we found a place not too distant (not beyond the port-a-lets). “Casablanca” was…
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You Can’t Do That and Things We Said Today – covers by Catastrophic Audio
More messy unauthorized covers, by Catastrophic Audio, of Beatles tunes. #8. You Can’t Do That. #9. Things We Said Today. Vocals by me. Instrumentation and engineering by Marty. Co-produced by Marty and me. The previous Unauthorized Messy Covers are under the “The Unauthorized Cover” category. I’ve been saying they’re from 1997 but that was just…
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So when do we get that hot new Broadway musical where Alec Baldwin and J-Lo somehow represent the new Camelot and George and Laura never waving from its turrets because it’s not that kind of brave new world?
Where’s the picture of the new fucking huge American embassy in Iraq I saw a couple of weeks ago. This isn’t it, or maybe it was. Never mind, the image will have to serve as there seem to be almost no photos of something so big. Some AP photo At 104 acres and $592 million…
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"We Can Work it Out" (and new conversion of "Revolution" to mp3), Unauthorized Messy Covers by Catastrophic Audio
I finished the conversions last night of this particular batch of the Unauthorized Messy Covers by Catastrophic Audio (me and Marty) that we did in 1997 and will be putting them up over the next couple of days. #7. We Can Work It Out. The above is particularly messy. Vocals by me. All instrumentation by…
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Another Unauthorized Messy Cover Song by Catastrophic Audio – Baby’s in Black
Another Unauthorized Messy Cover by Catastrophic Audio. (Been a while since I’ve posted one of these.) #6. Baby’s in Black. Vocals by me. All instrumentation by Marty. Engineered by him and co-produced by Marty and me. Recorded 1997. The previous Unauthorized Messy Covers are under the “The Unauthorized Cover” category and include She Said She…
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Wow! That's black Okefenokee soot all over the windowsill!
T Rex at Fire Dog Lake describes what it’s been like here in Georgia with these out-of-control wild fires. Incredible that they’re causing problems up here in Atlanta. Playing hell with my allergies, sinuses and lungs all week. Though we’ve no current air alert, I can swear I smell a hint of acrid smoke. Some…
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Slings, Arrows and Eggs
H.o.p. had a busy Saturday and Sunday at Atlanta’s Jazz Festival with his dad, seeing Jaspects and Julie Dexter, Airto and Flora Purim, and Bobby Hutcherson. I didn’t go along as I was otherwise occupied, but they had a great time and H.o.p. ran and ran and ran and ran and came home complaining about…
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Other NOLA pics from Nov 2006, Set of 60 Photos
Went ahead and uploaded around 60 pics from NOLA and the Greater New Orleans Area I took last Nov 2006. Not quality pics by any means but I decided I’d put them up anyway. The most striking thing in them all is the lack of humanity for miles and miles on the east side of…