Old Enough to Know Better

Music for this year ... Out walking the dogs this morning, couple guys across the street talking to each other, one of them says, "...

Saw this uke player (Travis Stine) play at a wine tasting in Forest Grove, along with Alex Taimanao, on guitar. Some serious musicians, an...

Seen this? Housefly shotgun , uses table salt. You need one, you know you do. You can take 'em on the wing! Or salt your fries acro...

So having decided to get better at playing the ukulele, I selected some songs to fingerpick, one of which is Paul McCartney's Blackb...

I've been corresponding with Duncan McGeary, a writer from Bend, OR, and during a back-and-forth on how I would have written this or...

I've been nose-to-the-grindstone here of late, so I haven't been keeping up with the news. I know who Bradley Manning is, the Wi...

Got the pathologist's report back on the skin tag removed from Jude's chest last Thursday, and the key word here is ... ... ...

Been a while since I did any book reviews, and there are a couple I wanted to bring to your attention ... I first became aware of Cars...

Elmore "Dutch" Leonard 1925-2012 One of the greats in modern genre literature, Dutch Leonard, has passed away from compli...

The CM's had a short gig at the Woodstock Farmer's Market in SE Portland today. Steve Cooper, a Real Musician™ asked us to sit in ...

Been a busy week hereabouts.  My nephew and his fiancé are on a long camping trip and they swung by for a visit. Been here a few days,...

Ten days or so back, a kid walked into Beaverton City Hall and told the clerk he was ODing on mushrooms. Banged his head again a recept...

I loved the first RED   movie, Willis, Parker, Malkovich, Mirren, Freeman, Dreyfus. It was a hoot, the old ops in the field, so I expect...

Behold, the cover for The Vastalimi Gambit , the second book in the  three book   Cutter's Wars  series.  Pub date is 31 December 2...

L. to R: Layla, Crombie, Jude We have inherited a new dog.  Well, actually, an old dog. Oldest dog we've ever had. Crombie i...

So, my latest Kickstarter perk got here, a new piece of hardware, the Leap Motion Controller.   I kicked in a few bucks six or eight mon...

L. to R:  Meredith, Daryl, Steve, Mary, Jim, Dan, Harold, Anna. Off to stage right, Steve C., on the hot pink ukulele So S...

This is a Chapman Stick, an electronic stringed instrument that is played with both hands working the fretboard. I have a guy who plays on...

Came across this by accident, thought it would be fun to re-post. The classic coin manipulation called "The Muscle Pass." Done wi...

The river that was Guru's yard has been diverted, and it has been dry enough this summer for us to reëstablish the sand pit for s...