Wake Up Call At The Hotel Rastafarian Simone Monday, August 31, 2009 Music playing from speakers in room: "Get up, Stand up! Stand up for your rights! Get up, St… Read more
Adventures of The Good Lil' Consumer Simone Sunday, August 30, 2009 It's time for another installment of The Good Lil' Consumer! Let's tune in and see wha… Read more
Fab Vocab Simone Friday, August 28, 2009 Have you ever used any of these terms in conversation? highball minx fracus beanbag … Read more
Tubes And Transistors Simone Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Vacuum tubes and transistors. On my mind tonight. They were made by the thousands, back when compu… Read more
Random Acts Of Canineness Simone Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Galloping horses couldn't have surprised us more. In one wooosh the canine had bounded across t… Read more
Cheeses Of My Life Simone Friday, August 14, 2009 I have tasted the cheese, er cheeses, of my life –a P’tit Basque and Prince De Claverolle. Both che… Read more
Hobo In The Sun Simone Friday, August 07, 2009 It's feast or famine. Going from no Kerouac, to total Kerouac immersion. I am reading both On t… Read more
Strip Tease Simone Wednesday, August 05, 2009 Declutter. The removal of unwanted objects. The expulsion of the riff-raff from one's home. Get… Read more
Simone Sunday, August 02, 2009 My kids are thousands of feet above the earth. It gives me the willies. I don't like to picture… Read more
Beatnik Cave Simone Saturday, August 01, 2009 No, it wasn't. O'Malley's in Weston is good as pubs go, but it's not a beatnik cave… Read more
Gleesome Gladness Ninety-seven years ago today was the first day of the first "official" Kansas State Fair, held on September… Keep reading
Crown of Creation Trippin' down memory lane. I have to pay tribute to this album --I used to listen to it all the time when I was in … Keep reading
We Are Hoping Aliens Can Read This It's called The Golden Record, and we shot it into space. Though it sounds and looks a bit like an ancient Egyptian… Keep reading
Is It Time To Get Started On Those Collateral Vessels? Everyone knows that the heart is a muscle. But who wants to dwell on it? I am well aware that my heart --progenitor and… Keep reading
Two Weeks Left To Go My upstairs window at the Javanaut For four days last week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday), I sat in the Java… Keep reading
Burl's Pearl's -- Burl Ives' Surprising Oeuvre Tis the season for everything Burl Ives. As the Burl Ives My Ass Coalition (BIMAC) launches its predictable boycott ag… Keep reading