Flares into Darkness

Fixate on the news too much and the World is going to hell in a hand basket. Step back and things are something else altogether. Above, Du...

Click on any image to enlarge “When I was young, I used to admire real glasses but my dad was a bit harsh and he never wanted me to have...

Max Raabe & Palast Orchester performing Oops ... I Did It Again. Yes, I am beating this Good 'Ol Days theme to death, but I doubt...

Click any image to enlarge Far better, or at least more Good 'Ol Daysish than Toto Coelo singing I Eat Cannibals, are the pictures ...

I Eat Cannibals by Toto Coelo. Hopefully this tune doesn't get stuck in your head.  

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin  

" I also addressed the fish directly in my mind. I am in mortal danger, abandoned by everyone, I told them. You are innocent creatur...

Wyclef Jean's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" I remember playing my guitar in the projects Playing in the PJ's ...

Girls Just Want to Have Fun as covered by Busby Marou

Click any image to enlarge For the 20th Century's large wars young men and women were recruited to go to war with stark and aggress...

Crazy Train as covered by Camille and Kennerly.

James Rhoads 1940-2015 Jim was one of the original YARGB's, as we had all gotten familiar with each other via Roger Simon's blog. ...

Click on any image to enlarge For Easter I was going to post a picture of the Pieta. Instead I'll post an image of a detail from it...

Here is a small collection of vintage coffee ads. Not surprisingly, they mainly show smiling people holding a cup of coffee, but there ...

We Will Live Again from Brooklyn Underground Films on Vimeo . Considering the whole 'Rising from the Dead' vibe this is probab...

Monday morning, start of the work week blues by Albert Nicholas.

Anders Helstrup, a Norwegian skydiver, had a couple of GoPro cameras mounted on his helmet when he did a jump. When he reviewed his vid...

Monday morning, start of the work week blues by the Mojo Blues Band.  

(click on any image to enlarge) These days for our quakery we have spiritual crystals, aroma therapy and the like -- in the old days I t...

Get ready for a possessive weekend with The Gotan Project and Sarah Vaughan.