Old Enough to Know Better

Jim Kelly 1946-2013 Apparently Jim Kelly just passed. Man. No details yet, but he was only 67. Back in the day when I was...

Back in 1990, Tom Selleck and Alan Rickman starred on a western, set in Australia in the mid-1800s, The movie was Quigley Down Under. I...

New Carruth ukulele, above. Rosette detail. With the Woodley White Pu'uwai koa (top.) White, left, and Carr...

So, the word out from The Oregonian, our local newspaper, is that they just fired almost a hundred people and will cut home distribut...

Came across a listing at AbeBooks , showing that George R.R. Martin's first volume of the never-ending Fire and Ice series ( A Game ...

Classical guitar Cedar-top, Osage Orange back and sides, by Alan Carruth, September, 2006 Okay, I know, I know, but his is t...

Chapdelaine's latest. Man, he's something else. 

Okay, now and then, the strangeness of my mind surprises even me. Yesterday, I had an appointment in the morning, about a twenty-minute...

Yeah, yeah, another uke post, but what can I say? It's my new hobby, and it's still calling my name. Might not be the droids for...

As I warned you earlier, the forthcoming ebook of Stellar Ranger  is now come forth ...

Been doing some incidental research for the book-in-progress–having to do with Arizona Cypress trees in south Texas, actually–and wan...

In our version of silat, there is a fair amount of blade work. A lot of it is with short knives, which we can define here as in the 4...

The Beatles, sans John, playing blues on ukes, 1994 And did I mention that I decided to swap my mahogany uke for another one in koa...

Once, I was was serious swimmer. Not for competition, but I was a lifeguard, WSI, teaching kids' lessons, and it was my primary source...

  When I started playing classical guitars, I propped my left foot on a special foot stool and rested the guitar on my left leg, which ...

I might have mentioned in passing that a script Reaves and I wrote some time back– The Dark Zone– has been optioned. It's a caper mo...

 Balinese Wedung, above; Keris pejet, below. Enlarge the image above and look closely,  you can see where the hot steel...

I'm thinking this is a joke, on a par with the banana-slicer, but maybe not, who can tell these days? A holder for a Whopper™? Are...

While all the houseworkery was happening, I noticed out front next to the driveway some mushrooms had sprung up; no doubt from the frequ...