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Labeled 12 bar blues, this may also be recognized by some as the music to “Banana In My Driveway”.
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On a different note, a couple pictures I took on the weekend- click for the full size (big):
Mt Hood, South Slope

Drive-by shot of a nameless waterfall on the Columbia Gorge scenic Highway

Bye for now,
Rick

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Musical (?) Interlude

I just finished recording my cover of the song “There but for Fortune”. Phil Ochs is rolling in his grave. Pray for me. This may be an unpardonable sin.
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Here’s the real Phil Ochs:

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All the words are john McCains, the order has been changed to make more sense.
p-gop-conv-mccain-palin-intro

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He scares the pants offa me. He’ll do absolutely anything to win, it seems. All I have today is funny pictures of McCain. As usual, you may need to click for full-size on small ones. FYI: some are lame, some are real photos, some cartoons thrown in for good measure. Some are not anything to [...]

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First, I came across this cool moon picture (suitable for desktop)- click it for full size:

Secondly, this week is time for…

Mad Liberation By MoonLight

This Friday! On KBOO Radio 90.7 FM
1- 2 a.m. Late Friday night
(yes, I know that it is technically Saturday morning- relax, it’s just a radio show)
October 17th, 2008

This show is dedicated [...]

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I’ve converted one of my pages to just space pictures. I have hundreds of great images from probes, telescopes and so forth. I’ll be adding them slowly, starting today. Click the page that says “Space Pictures, above.

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A song I’ve re-recorded today. It’s been known by various names over the past 15 or so years. It is ambiguously about lost love but it’s more complicated than that. The motivation for the song was my daughter’s death but it absorbed other feelings and memories along the way.
The words, annotated:
In the years before your [...]

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Buddhist Video
The Wandering Mind – Andrea Fella Audio Dharma ; Insight Meditation Center ; Andrea Fella
go here.

PORTS
This from Mike’s blog, New Directions:

Peer Operated Recovery Treatment and Support (PORTS)
A Mental Health Recovery Model
Developed by Michael Hlebechuk

PORTS is a mental health self-directed care model that combines mental health brokerage services with a peer [...]

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Gone Beyond
This is a song I wrote in 1993 a year after my father died. The chorus is borrowed from “The mantra which releives all suffering”- Gate gate pāragate pārasamgate bodhi svāhā (for more info about the mantra go here). The English translation- Gone Gone, Gone Beyond Beyond, Hail the Goer (or something like that).
Here’s [...]

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