This clip from Bob Dylan was a great find surfing YouTube.
Checkout Bob Dylan's Children's book Forever Young
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Dylan's Children's: Book Forever Young
This clip from Bob Dylan was a great find surfing YouTube.
Checkout Bob Dylan's Children's book Forever Young
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Old Blog gets New Life
Once upon a time in a blog much like this one, incompetence and circumstance led to duplication (sort of). A few old posts languishing in the blogosphere. Stories about Hillary Clinton, the girls of Mumbai and an apartment in Kazan. Pictures of a bar in India and some Churches in Rome. All gathering digital dust with nary a virtual viewer.
Such was the fate of LostBob’s Old Blog (sort of). until the discovery of bloggers magic cut-and-paste time machine. That little ‘Post Options’ drop down in the edit window. Suddenly it's 2006 again. My old posts can re-appear in a blog that wasn’t even around then. They have been reincarnated.
Most of what was once there has moved here. So if you’ve stumbled here or there via some wayward link or if Google has lured you here for something that was once there but is no longer. It’s probably here. So there you are.
Such was the fate of LostBob’s Old Blog (sort of). until the discovery of bloggers magic cut-and-paste time machine. That little ‘Post Options’ drop down in the edit window. Suddenly it's 2006 again. My old posts can re-appear in a blog that wasn’t even around then. They have been reincarnated.
Most of what was once there has moved here. So if you’ve stumbled here or there via some wayward link or if Google has lured you here for something that was once there but is no longer. It’s probably here. So there you are.
| The pictures are links to the most popular old posts | |
 The Car of the Beast? |  Seaview Hotel |
 Loading Oil in Dubai |  The Girls of Mumbai |
 Ponte Vittorio Emanuele |  Santa Maria Maggiore |
| The pictures are from the old posts. The links take you to the post's new home. The post about "The Car of the Beast" was revised and is now the most popular post on this blog. | |
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Remembering John Cephas
Legendary bluesman John “Bowling Green” Cephas dies at 78
From his agent, Piedmont Talent’s Steve Hecht
Fellow Hagerstownian Grudnik captured a nice shot of John Cephas at the Western Maryland Blues Fest in 2005. See it on his Flickr photostream.
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“More than anything else, I would like to see a revival of country blues by more young people … more people going to concerts, learning to play the music,” Cephas once said. “That’s why I stay in the field of traditional music. I don’t want it to die.”I met John Cephas in the early 90’s at Oliver’s Pub in Hagerstown. A genuinely friendly man, he spoke of how much he enjoyed playing in Hagerstown.
From his agent, Piedmont Talent’s Steve Hecht
A descendent of slaves, Cephas was born in Washington, D.C. in 1930, and acquired his “Bowling Green” moniker from his childhood days in Bowling Green, Virginia. Cephas discovered gospel as a child, but soon learned the blues from a guitar-playing aunt while his grandfather taught him about eastern Virginia folklore.I have put together a little playlist of John Cephas clips on YouTube. The clips show him solo and as part of Cephas & Wiggins with long time partner Phil Wiggins on harmonica. The clips show him doing what he did best, playing and teaching. Spend a few minutes and check them out. Or if you are too busy just minimize this window and enjoy the music of John Cephas for a few minutes.
Fellow Hagerstownian Grudnik captured a nice shot of John Cephas at the Western Maryland Blues Fest in 2005. See it on his Flickr photostream.
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Sunday, March 1, 2009
Samos is Amos
but Sanon ain't Anon
If Samos is Amos and Amos is famous then Sanon ain't Anon no more.
The photo is of the entrance to Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia.
Clicking on it will take you there. Go ahead. I’ve already changed the subject.
If Samos is Amos and Amos is famous then Sanon ain't Anon no more.The photo is of the entrance to Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia.
Clicking on it will take you there. Go ahead. I’ve already changed the subject.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Amos Anon’s Book
Are there really any dead Tibetans?
My old friend Amos Anon has written a serious and scholarly study guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Now I'm no expert, but I thought the whole purpose of that book was to ensure that Tibetans don’t stay dead. At least not for long.
So why aren't there more Tibetans among us?
Updated Feb 24th:
Turns out Amos has provided the answer in an e-mail.
Told you he was the expert. The only version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead I've read all the way through is the comic book version of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. And Timothy Leary's too; they both agree with Amos. And I bet some of those that do reincarnate come back as Chinese, just for revenge. Or maybe as spies. Karma!
The supply of Tibetans will eventually run out.
I'm not the expert. So you should check out what Amos has to say for yourself at his new blog
Samos Samon's Seudo Serial
Better still, go to Amazon where you can read an excerpt then buy his book. Amos tells me it really is very good.
Besides, he needs the money. He owes me a beer.
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My old friend Amos Anon has written a serious and scholarly study guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Now I'm no expert, but I thought the whole purpose of that book was to ensure that Tibetans don’t stay dead. At least not for long.So why aren't there more Tibetans among us?
Updated Feb 24th:
Turns out Amos has provided the answer in an e-mail.
“Actually, the purpose of the Tibetan Book of the Dead is to help you stay dead, or in other words, to not get reincarnated. “Which pretty much explains it all.
Told you he was the expert. The only version of the Tibetan Book of the Dead I've read all the way through is the comic book version of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. And Timothy Leary's too; they both agree with Amos. And I bet some of those that do reincarnate come back as Chinese, just for revenge. Or maybe as spies. Karma!
The supply of Tibetans will eventually run out.
I'm not the expert. So you should check out what Amos has to say for yourself at his new blogSamos Samon's Seudo Serial
Better still, go to Amazon where you can read an excerpt then buy his book. Amos tells me it really is very good.
Besides, he needs the money. He owes me a beer.
Note: Links external to Blogger open in a single new window.
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