Drive Time….

Drive Time…. Who wants gum.... Dad are we there yet?... Count some license plates... by state!

■May Day! Calling All Cars■ ...

TOMORROW Morning @8am FLASH YOUR HEAD LIGHTS to send a signal to accelerate brain tumor research! 

Would you, could you,.... Go Gracie Go!

Maybe... our generation got old... but we still have soul...

Ride…on….

Is the news absurd or is it ...

Is the news absurd or is it just my internet connection because I live in Atlanta.... Or... was it a flathead or a phillips... either one would be hard to swallow not to metnion pass even if it were a bran... name... like a little craftsman....... Funny though... usually you don't get screwed until the insurance company rejects the implant and considers it cosmetic... but then in Kentucky it's not romantic to have a missing tooth... Kentucky woman swallows a screwdriver, sues her dentist!

I guess she will get a book deal... and a tool box...

Another morning or perhaps not just any other morning...

Another morning or perhaps not just any other morning... they are all different ....yet they are all connected... in a circle... sunrise and sundown.... in the universe... and yet this one brings many things to an end and in that a beginning... in my mind...
in my mind...

Last night Greg Lake played here in Atlanta at a very cozy and intimate venue...

Last night Greg Lake played here in Atlanta at a very cozy and intimate venue the Variety Playhouse.... a very long distance from the arenas of the seventies... the format was unique much like Jon Anderson's presentation a year ago on the v...ery same stage... with some significant, yet subtle differences... it was only Greg... yes... and the couple next to me mentioned... gee no drum set? Is he "alone"... I thought well... certainly appears to be sans an electric piano... and then guessed... well in an age of MP3's, Macintoshes and overdubs... he has probably multiplied himself.. He did and added the feel of a community radio interview... stories between songs... questions from the audience... such a great distinct voice... and a surprise... Christmas in April... when one question came up about this song... if he's there... where you may be... be there... it's worth it... and we all still believe...
I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake - Ian Anderson

Pete Fornatale was also a teacher and teachers are remarkable individuals...

Pete Fornatale was also a teacher and teachers are remarkable individuals... they get up every morning and prepare us for things that we have yet to encounter... Pete was always full of eloquent explanations... listening to and looking forw...ard to WNEW every day was a musical learning experience and Pete's explanations and descriptions were full of sheer profundity... in fact the music and the lyrics were full of life and Pete and WNEW took the time to explain and explore life with us... so much of Pete and WNEW is a part of us all this morning... Pete kept the Beach Boys alive on a transition from AM radio to FM even as it became "progressive" and formats changed…. there was always a space for our own Americana in his Mixed Bag and that's why God made radio and gave us Pete and WNEW. God Bless you Pete Fornatale…The Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio!

How appropriate to be attending a live show last night here in Atlanta, Georgia...

How appropriate to be attending a live show last night here in Atlanta, Georgia... and to see the member of a band that of course was introduced to my ears by WNEW-FM the first time I heard them... From the Beginning, Tarkus or Lucky Man...
Greg Lake is here at the Variety Playhouse... a cozy venue like the Last Chance Saloon in Poguhkeepsie, New York... And also appropriate as a tribute to Pete and... Scotso... one of those things from England... ELP was... like King Crimson and Atomic Rooster and the first time I saw them play was at Fordham University in Da Bronx with time to have a White Castle with cheese around the corner on Fordham Road... and then watch Keith Emerson spin around in a contraption that would make you dizzy as he played.. at all places... Gaelic Park... a soccer field in Da Bronx !

The last few weeks have been full of sad music news...

The last few weeks have been full of sad music news... earlier today Pete Fornatele of WNEW-FM days in NYC passed away... a voice on the radio that I listened to every day along with Scotso, Roscoe, Jonathan and Allison... voices that were all so responsible for my own time in radio.... the top of the hill is here for many of us as the rest of us approach it... no time to waste...
God Bless you Pete Fornatele...

May Day Calling All Cars! - Classics Du Jour - Flash Your Headlights!

May Day Calling All Cars! - Classics Du Jour - Flash Your Headlights!
Radio Press Release Audio - Drive For Research, with help from CDJ Classics Du Jour - Everything Classic Rock - and FMQB inviting radio stations across the country to bro...adcast the radio signal “May Day Calling All Cars – Flash Your Head Lights” at 8am on May 1st for brain tumor awareness month. During May stations are asked to participate in the Daily Drive To Survive and Pledge The Miles You Drive radio promotion to raise funds for accelerated brain tumor research.
 May Day Calling All Cars! - Classics Du Jour - Flash Your Headlights!

Would you ever wonder just what the beagle is thinking...

Would you ever wonder just what the beagle is thinking after following you into the bathroom when you are just getting out of the shower... when they sit quietly and stare....
Now could it be... gee... I don't look like that... where is all their hair.... is bald beautiful... or ...
How did I get here.... is this my beautiful house.... do I get to ride in the car with the rear passenger window down so I can bark at the semi's going by..... or what?

The end of April... no climate change?...

The end of April... no climate change?...
Unless the climate changes to discuss the change in climate...The end of April... no climate change?...

We get to make contact with a higher more intelligent life source and being...

AMC ran an old favorite sc-fi movie that rather than alien bugs and viruses, we get to make contact with a higher more intelligent life source and being... a magnificent movie with Jodie Foster and David Morse... although a the sequence "co...uld not have happened" according to the pundits in charge... in a moment and at the speed of light... light years away... for Ellie... Jodie's character it most certainly did... we all do not know where, why or even how... there is more than just another car... a bigger house... or a more expensive vacation... some search for it and never find it... others build it and it never works... or no one comes... all for some reason when reason does not seem to have the answer... faith is all there is in the face of rejection and silence, disaster and distress... faith in that contact whenever or wherever it finally comes...
 Wllie meets .....

There are times when you hoped you would get there...

There are times when you hoped you would get there... there are times when you thought you would get there... there are times when no matter what you have done or tried to get there...
These are those times...

Would it not be common sense to think that if ...

... you remove supporting layers of shale and viscous oil from deep under the ground that the vacancy in consistency would precipitate a new layer order that would cause shifts and strains. Would that require a geological scientific degree in stratified sediments or would that be a logical sentiment?
Study ties oil and gas production to Midwest quakes

The test of an invention is the power ...

Polaroid co-founder Edwin Land said, "The test of an invention is the power of [the] inventor to push it through in the face of staunch - not opposition, but indifference - in society." Great ideas and inventions are often shunned or ignored before they are accepted. It makes sense then that inventors tend to be a hearty sort: they don't mind failure, they don't care what others think, and they're willing to work really damn hard.

"I think.. therefore I am.. I am not.. what I do.. I do what I am."

"I think.. therefore I am.. I am not.. what I do.. I do what I am."

Deafening silence: a silence or lack of response that reveals something significant...

That was then.... this is now... too many miles and too many smiles... I still remember this...
Deafening silence: a silence or lack of response that reveals something significant, such as disapproval

Searching... never finding an answer....

Searching... never finding an answer.... looking... searching... never ending...
still looking... for answer...Counting the cars on the NJ Turnpike....

Flight Attendant: Would you like flies with that...

Airline Passenger:
Can I please have a refill of my Starbuck's Strawberry Frappacino to go with my trail mix.
 .....Flight Attendant: Would you like flies with that.....

Substance will always prevail over emptiness ...

Substance will always prevail over emptiness even if there's a nickel in it when you return the empty bottle...

Jorma and the H2O Song...

Then there is this favorite Water Song...
 Jorma and the H2O Song

Here's a great relaxing HD video with natural sounds to to meditate to...

Here's a great relaxing HD video with natural sounds to to meditate to...
 Listen to the rain....

Ah... one of sixteen vestal virgins who were leaving for the coast,

Ah... one of sixteen vestal virgins who were leaving for the coast,
got your ticket... as the ceiling flew away....
 Although my eyes were open... they may just as well been closed...

Damn the torpedoes... this thing still floats...

Damn the torpedoes... this thing still floats...
 It does...

Here comes the twister...

Here comes the twister... they test the scare-the-bejesus-out-of-'em method for severe weather warnings.Weather service fights apathy with fear-mongering

The weed police....

The weed police....

After mowing the lawn.....

After mowing the lawn..... and weeds down.... the dust, dry dirt... such fun... a must for the Sunday chore list... I decided to clean up and relax from the pollen and happy bees... only to wake in a dream where the weeds were growing like... lychen... the weed police sent a letter and fined our lawn for not meeting the code and we thought code de la gras'... such a dream... what a horticultural... nightmare...
 After mowing the lawn.....

The lawn is so full of weeds this spring...

The lawn is so full of weeds this spring... has it been global warming... or the unusual early warm weather and rain this past winter... and then yesterday there were two long chem trails in the bright blue sky overhead first thing in the m...orning... or must it be a chem lawn conspiracy theory to increase the unnecessary weed population so they can canvas the neighborhood with those little door hangers telling us about those doppelgangers from across the street that have now made it to your yard and must be contained... with more chemicals... chem tales... from the lawn...10 Secret Organizations

Oregami...

Oregami...
 Oregami...

Waking up in the parallel universe... Beagle says... hey were is that box of fresh bisquits from ALDI... anyway... now when you take them to work wouldn't it be novel if they worked and you went for a walk...Taking dogs to work 'reduces employee stress'

Considering the veracity of most tweets ...

Considering the veracity of most tweets that will be full of sheets in 140 characters or less... this seems to be one of the most appropriate forms of publishing such scatological creative vernacular for some unpublished literary geniuses... butt then we are always in need of some kind of reading material when we are having one of our daily sit downs with such a close friend as john don’t we….You can now wipe your butt with your own tweets

I've done my time on the bottom line... ain't no thrill

I've done my time on the bottom line... ain't no thrill
When the morning light comes streaming in,
I'll get up and do it again...
 I've done my time on the bottom line... ain't no thrill

I'll have two crushed insect frappuccinos

I'll have two crushed insect frappuccinos, now that's natural...Starbugs.... ???