Orbison Radio

Roy Orbison Radio, which Miss L and I have been working on for the better part of a year, is finally up and running online 24/7.
You can access Roy Radio here  by clicking on the Play Roy Radio widget; the current broadcast schedule is here. Roy Orbison online is brought to you by Orbison Records [...]

Telephone or E-Mail?

When I was coming of age in the 1970’s, the telephone was an absolute; outside of letters and postcards, the phone was the only device to keep one in touch with friends and relatives in distant places (it was also a damned expensive instrument to have until Congress broke up the Pac Bell monopoly).
I resisited [...]

Lightning Strikes Ignite Nevada Wildfires

Let me tell ya, it hasn’t been fun walking to the store the last few days what with this unsettled weather in Southern Nevada. I don’t mind so much the threat of rain while I’m out on foot as much as I do the threat of death by lightning bolt. I witnessed a lightning-to-land confrontation [...]

Luis Enrique Camejo

I discovered this fantastic Cuban artist via the August 2009 issue of Harper’s. From medaid.org:
Luis Enrique Camejo (b. 1971) graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana in 1996. His most recent body of work consists of cityscapes of Havana awash in rich, saturated hues. Frequently nocturnal, these strangely under-populated urban scenes are like [...]

To Quote Another CBS News Legend: Good Night, and Good Luck

This quote from the AP says it all and should serve as a guidepost for keeping Michael Jackson’s passing and lineage in proper perspective:
Cronkite was the broadcaster to whom the title “anchorman” was first applied, and he came so identified in that role that eventually his own name became the term for the job in [...]