Dal Carver, owner of the Wild Goose Cafe in Ashland, Oregon, and an extraordinarily gifted piano and keyboard player, and I, a ne'er-do-well folkie, came up with the idea for this album in 2005 or so. In October. With the help of a mindblowingly great group of musician

I mentioned the other day that I may be going on a sailing trip. Well, the details have been worked out, and tomorrow or Thursday (Australia time) I'll be headed to Hobart, Tasmania, on a 38-foot sailboat. Skipper: Craig. Crew: Me. (Home, gnawing fingernails on walls, ceiling: Christine.)Short story s

I've got a

Stephen Colbert - he of of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report - is doing something extraordinary to American politics, through the forming of his Super PAC, "Making a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow." It is not often that you get to witness someone of Colbert's

In other words - of course they were lying:The Fukushima nuclear disaster released twice as much of a radioactive substance into the atmosphere as Japanese authorities estimated, reaching 40 percent of the total

Things that make me want to bite a moving train Number Googelty-million:The teacher who heads up New Smyrna Beach High School's student government association could face thousands of dollars in fines. Her transgression?

Of course this happens after I move to the Southern Hemisphere:A baffling solar storm pulled colorful northern lights unusually far south, surprising space weather experts. TV stations in G

Good gads, I was just persuing Twitter when Will Wheaton - yes, the kid in Star Trek: The Next Generation, who is a funny and sharp dude - made a comment about becoming his father. That blasted me back to seeing The Electric Bonsai Band - not electri

The Los Angeles Times today:As a student of history and a retired deputy chief of police with the Los Angeles Police Department, I can attest that the damage that came f

Wow.WASHINGTON (AP) -- One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of comb

Someone put a great Chris Chandler song on YouTube:  More Chris here.

Buying LT songs just got easier, and only 99 cents a pop. My favorite on this is probably "Sigh." Although Bob Evoniuk's National Reso-Phonic guitar on "You Can Use My Bathtub" is something to behold, too.

REM.

The question is, will they get it:The Metropolitan police are seeking a court order under the Official Secrets Act to make Guardian reporters disclose their confidential sources about the phone-hacking scandal.In an unp

Wild, one-footed cocky that comes

The Shack is a very cool Northern Beaches venue. You're even encouraged to bring your own snacks and drinks:

It's about the

There's four of my best buds right there:

Just noticed an email in ye olde email receptacle. I thought it was spam, naturally, but turns out it wasn't:Dear Little Thom,Hi. This is Kiattisak from Thailand. I found one of your songs 'Inside Joke' from a podcast of The Word Nerds, and liked it very much. I bought the song from iTunes Stor

Good god in heaven:A soldier's widow says his fellow Army Rangers wouldn't do anything to help him before he took his own life - after eight deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Went to an open mike last night (at the Terrey Hills Tavern). A guy there played Michael Hedges style guitar, and quite well, surprisingly. I saw Hedges two or three times, at the Oregon Country Fair, in the early 1990s. I have never

Morning in Sydney, here.

Some pretty cool pics and a new animal for me - the cowry - over at the other blog.

I played

So long, Mr. Falk.

Someone was inside with a video camera:

Gorgeous.Performing live here:Mimoun El Oujdi by aomya

I have nothing to say about this.

"I HOLD your photo to the mirror upside down."You just do not hear enough about Robin Williamson these days, years. Here's his and his partner Bina's page. That site directs you

I first blogged about Seve Ballesteros being diagnosed with brain cancer shortly after it was reported in October 2008. I've updated those posts several times, and now the story