Category: conversation

Bob Dylan… 1961-2024

The growing folkie first gained a notable reputation whilst going by the name of Elston Gunn as well as variations on his birth name such as Robert Allen. However, it was on Bob Dylan that he would eventually settle.

Kind, Kinder, Kindness, Kindly…

“Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.”
― Anne Rice

Post Office Action in East Portland

Portland Community & Postal Workers United Action at East Portland Post Office

The Postal Board of Governors has cut out public comment (at their May 9th meeting in DC) and the Postmaster General is refusing requests for information from the Postal Regulatory Commission

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali moved me to tears of sorrow and joy.  Back in the sixties, Ali made me feel  like someone … More

Invisible Data

Tedium

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.” ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959 Real life may be … More

Alternatives to Anthropomorphism…

https://youtu.be/X3KnCL0S_Ws?list=RDX3KnCL0S_Ws Tom Waits – “Lie To Me“ There are alternatives to anthropomorphism… What is the anthropomorphic fallacy?   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ The … More

President Jill Ellen Stein

Support Jill Stein for President in 2024…

Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, pledges to end corporate-American wars, prioritize peace, and address social and environmental issues. Her platform includes Medicare for All, reviving the economy, ending wars, expanding civil liberties, and protecting the environment. She advocates for government reform, term limits, and a shift to clean energy.

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Darkness at the break of dawn…

https://youtu.be/2xC2JZ6NLv8 The Youngbloods 🎼 Darkness, Darkness 1969 HQ Darkness at the break of noon… https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/its-alright-ma-im-only-bleeding/ “While preachers preach of evil … More

China Blues

Evidently, China has not “lost its socialist mainstay” as critics claim, as SOEs continue to play the leading role within the economy, directing development towards the realisation of socialism, and private capital remains subordinated to the CPC.  

Multidimentional Blues

https://youtu.be/gxxqdrrpgZc?list=RDgxxqdrrpgZc&t=19 Splendor of Color Kaleidoscope “The energy of the sun is the original source of most of the energy found … More

Religion, Sexuality and Blues

Jung believed that religion was a natural expression of the collective unconscious whilst Freud believed it was a collective neurosis.

1951 Blues… ~OO~

B.B. King – Vocal and Guitar  Richard Sanders – Tenor Saxophone  Phineas Newborn Jr. and/or Ike Turner – Piano  Calvin Newborn – Guitar  Possibly James Walker – Bass  Unknown – Baritone Saxophone  Phineas Newborn Sr. – Drums  Adolph “Billy” Duncan – Tenor Saxophone  Possibly Earl Forrest or Man-Son – Drums

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

“The old sorcerer
Has finally gone away!
Now the spirits he controls
Shall obey my commands.”

Good Morning Blues

From fighting segregation with Woody Guthrie to joining with blind harmonica player Sonny Terry on the road, from being chosen as the successor to Blind Boy Fuller to sharing a New York cold water flat with Leadbelly, Brownie tells and plays the story of his life

~William Cuthbert Falkner

“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”
~William Cuthbert Falkner 

Love blues…

Worship and Prayer are not about love.

Panhandle Park

https://youtu.be/56w8Ut4axsM
Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Child “Official Psychedelic Video”

What does Three Little Pigs really mean?

The “little piggy having roast beef” is about fattening a pig up

Alliance for Democracy in PDX

MISSION: The mission of the Alliance for Democracy is to establish true democracy, end corporate domination, and create a just … More

Health Care is a Human Right

Health Care is a Human Right.

The math is not complex. Instead of doling out corporate welfare to insurance firms, we can pay that money to deliver actual health care. As health improves, costs go down.