Mixed Meters

Quick! Pick an image you think best portrays "Southern California."  We're looking for a single shot that says it all. You ...

Dear Readers - this is the second of three unfinished Mixed Meters posts that have languished in my draft folder.  I'm posting them now ...

Election season is almost over again.  Because I don't own a television station I can't rake in the bucks selling time for sleazy po...

Last May Sequenza21 , a New York music blog, wrote about the retirement of Randy Coleman , a professor of music composition at Oberlin. He...

For some reason I keep making videos of birds. First there was Birds Who Don't Know The Words . Then there was SQUAWK! Now, here is ...

Last Saturday I tagged along with Leslie as she tagged along with an excursion organized by the Natural History Museum of LA County. That...

No musician admits it out loud and a few probably don't even admit it to themselves, but every musician wants to get into the history bo...

A lot of this post deals with Yoko Ono. One night many years ago when I was a freshman in college I spent what seemed like hours, stoned out...

I couldn't resist the first picture which I found on Flickr here : I took the second picture in San Luis Obispo . Note how much better ...

At Mount San Jacinto State Park I took lots of pictures of bare tree tips against the blue sky. This post tells more about the trip. Clic...