6-1-26 - Ironic

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out alive.”
                                                                           - Robert Heinlein

Today is Kendra's and my wedding anniversary.  In 1997 we stood on the side of a mountain in Washington State's Olympic National Park and said…

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5-31-26 - Bonzo

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.”
                                                         - John Bonham

Today was the birthday of John (Bonzo) Bonham (1948), legendary drummer of Led Zeppelin.  Rolling Stone magazine voted him “The Greatest Drummer of All Time."  I don't…

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5-30-26 - Deeper Cuts

“My theory is that all Scottish food is based on a dare.”
                                                                  - Mike Myers

Doesn't it kind of make you crazy?  When you know a band or singer's music really well, but the average person only knows them by…

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5-29-26 - The Good Words

“I am not young enough to know everything”
                                               - Oscar Wilde

It's Friday and time for words that have moved us.  But first, a happy birthday to my longtime buddy, P.J. out in Colorado Springs.  P.J.'s one of the very…

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5-28-26 - Stealing From Yourself

“That's not easy to find in a corporate world, somebody who cares about music.”
                                                                                                       - Michael Penn

It's John Fogerty's birthday (1945).  I've already talked about him and the importance Creedence Clearwater Revival has had in my life. But, I…

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5-27-26 - Scrubs

“All you have to do to have an interesting life is to be a damn fool.”
                                                                                - Saul Bellow

I owe Zach Braff a lot.  For a few years back in the two thousand aughts, he turned me onto all…

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5-26-26 - Birthday Bonanza

"Lordy, I have loved some ladies, and I have loved Jim Beam
 And they both tried to kill me in 1973."
                                    - Hank Williams, Jr/Family Tradition

You could make a Mt. Rushmore of the music folks that share birthdays…

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5-25-26- Tom T.

I love honest open smiles, kisses from a child
Tomatoes on a vine, and onions
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try
Music when it's good, and life
                           - Tom T. Hall/I Love

Today was the…

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5-24-26 - Birthday Bob

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
                                                                                                                            - Bob Dylan
                                                                                                    

Today is Bob Dylan's birthday.  He turns 85. What…

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5-23-26 - Serious Funny

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
                                                                                                                 - Oscar Wilde

There are some songwriters who deftly use humor to help me deal with the challenges, vagaries and absurdities that life presents.  “Comedy…

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5-22-26 - Early Words

“We've gotta get out of this place"
                             - The Animals

A cultural note:   It was 34 years ago tonight, May 22, 1992, that Johnny Carson broadcast his final episode of The Tonight Show.  After 30 years of perfection, the king…

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5-21-26 - Bed-and-Breakfast

“I'm nobody!  Who are you?"
               - Emily Dickenson
                     

I was talking with a friend recently about the experience that is the bed-and-breakfast.  I told him that Kendra and I had only stayed in one once but that was enough for…

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