My usual criteria for "best video" is: the one I listened to the most, after I first posted it. This year, departing a bit, and ...

Last year, I wrote a piece called On the Future of Small Blogs ... which turned out to be fairly prescient. Blogs like mine are closing sho...

I heard My Morning Jacket's cover of "Move on up" last night on this blog's namesake, Uncle Dave's Dead Air . I then...

Uncle Dave played this great tune last night on the radio-inspired namesake of this blog, Uncle Dave's Dead Air . Airplane - Widespr...

Frank on Friday really should be several hours long. Unfortunately, the only time they do that is during "pledge week"--which me...

The hits on Amanda Knox's infamous "Foxy Knoxy" photograph are coming in , so that's how I know there is something happeni...

I need some soundtrack to getting tarred and feathered over at Womanist Musings . Comments welcome, here or there. I am told there is so...

I was driving through the bleak, forgotten areas of Jim DeMint's old congressional district today; not deliberately. En route to somewh...

Yes, I am at last prepared for Monday Music! ~*~ I discovered fabulous Ella Mae Morse through the totally indispensable Reverend Billy'...

The Infamous Stringdusters at the Bohemian Cafe , this afternoon! A splendid time was guaranteed for all. This was taped as part of WNCW ...

At left: Mr Cyril is now 7 months old! Like everyone else in the USA, I am presently bustling, rustling, hustling... and trying to dig o...

Presenting one of my all-time favorite songs... I first heard it when I was 12 years old. It touched me in that deep, deep place you can...

In every blogger's life, stuff happens that you just can't write about... and I am there right now. Lots of interpersonal strangene...

Once again, listening to the ever-fabulous Frank On Friday ...who gives me the courage to confront the right-wing bobbleheads running my sta...

What on earth would I do without the totally indispensable Reverend Billy's Rhythm Revival !? Last night, he played an amazing singer ...

Good live jams today from the intrepid (and very loud) Left Lane Cruiser -- featured at the redoubtable Bohemian Cafe, where I stop in ever...

Today, a visit to the Bohemian Cafe , where I was lucky enough to catch Free Planet Radio , a world music trio from Asheville, featuring (le...

I used up my Flickr account for the month, bah. Thus, I labor onward with Picasa. I do not enjoy how Picasa doesn't let you copy an...