From the George Orwell Diaries – 70 years ago today. June 14, 1940 The Germans are definitely in Paris, one day ahead of schedule. It can be taken as a certainty that Hitler will go to Versailles. Why don't they mine it and blow it up while he is there? Spanish troops have occupied Tangier, […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Javascript Songwriter
Sunday, June 13, 2010
I wrote a visual Songwriting page at my http://www.harptab.com site: Visual Harmonica Tab Songwriter. I wrote one for guitar tab, too: Visual Guitar Tab Songwriter
Last Night at BB King’s
Friday, June 11, 2010
Larry McCray and Lance Lopez played 4 hours at high intensity. Lots of dense rocking blues.
Roddenberry answers fan letter – 1973
Friday, June 11, 2010
STAR TREK had no ‘magic formula’ unless you consider respect for the audience and hard work a formula. It has been my opinion for years that science fiction, like any other story, should be mainly about people with hardware being secondary. It seems to me the networks and stations have wasted a lot of money […]
Lance Lopez, Larry McCray and Tyrone Cotton
Thursday, June 10, 2010
My brother Larry and I are going down to BB Kings to see Lance Lopez, Larry McCray and Tyrone Cotton. No blues harp, but there’ll be some blazing guitars. It is just about 30 miles to Time’s Square from my house, but I can’t remember the last time I road down to NYC. Larry and […]
NASA Face in Space
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
NASA is collecting digital images to send on the last two space shuttle missions. You can send a picture of yourself into outer space. Send you mug to the great beyond. Maybe aliens will find your picture and come looking for you. NASA Face in Space. By the way, I am planning to be in […]
Sir Patrick
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
I had not realized that Queen Elizabeth used a special sword when knighting Patrick Stewart.
Freak Memories
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
I came of age in the 1960s and I miss the music. I always considered myself a freak as we called ourselves (hippies was term used on the TV news). My tastes in music, fashion, girls, and what is cool stem from this time. I had long hair and listened to acid music and wore […]