Archive for the ‘The Dead’ Category
Plague Months, Day 21
Saturday, March 21st, 2020Plague Months, Day 20
Friday, March 20th, 2020Road to Portugal, 1982
Index: 1.34 (is there a trend?)
The Plague Months, Day 19
Thursday, March 19th, 2020Made a thing I call a Bazou :
As a member of the Home Made Musical Instrument Facebook group, I made this video of a Bazou.
Today’s toll: 168 over 11500, Index = 1.62.
The Plague Months, Day 18
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020Road to Morocco, 1982
The index today was 1.66; 108 by 6500
The Plague Months, Day 17
Tuesday, March 17th, 2020If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!
It’s St. Patrick’s Day and the parade has been canceled. The toll is 85 as of today, Index = 1.82.
Plague Months, Day 16
Monday, March 16th, 2020Some last minute pix from London from 1978
Thomas Burberry invented weatherproof gabardine in 1879, and so the trench coat’s tale began. We would have liked to purchase a famous Burberry on our trip to London, but alas, I am wearing a Savile Row knock-off for one-fifth the price.
Early Tally, 69 to 3774, Index = 1.82
Plague Months, Day 15
Sunday, March 15th, 2020London Travel (August, 1978)
The following pictures were scanned from a collection of faded photographs:
In 1978 we were living in Oak Park in an apartment owned by a Chicago police officer who was living outside the city limits and used the building as his residence even though he lived in the western suburbs in DuPage county.
As we ‘got off the boat’ as it were, we were presented with various simple attractions to amuse us and relieve us of our newly acquired British pounds.
Today’s Toll: 3244 cases, 61 deaths. 1.88 index.
End of RAGBRAI
Saturday, July 27th, 2019So, if you are reading this blog, the posting order is correct, but you see everything in reverse order, so you see the last day first, and the first day last. Get it? Anyhow, it seemed that there were plenty of raccoons out on the streets. Good for “Team Roadkill” , a bike team who likes to prop up roadkill with beer cans, beads, lip stick for the enjoyment of the other riders on the route. This looks like a young raccoon who obviously had a fake ID if you can notice it has an “Over 21” wrist band and a Ragbrai rider bracelet!
I always fear the last town because I operate the sag wagon for our team on the last day and I never know what the traffic will be like leaving town. Turns out, Keokuk had a good exit road out of town. I had plenty of time to entertain the riders coming in to town.
Charlotte Moorman. That’s who I thought of when I put my banjo next to the deep sea diver. Who’s Moorman? Someone wrote a book about her. See here to learn more. I actually knew Charlotte in the early ’70’s and played on stage with her at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. Those were weird times indeed!
MUSICIANS LOST IN 2018
Saturday, December 29th, 2018A RAGBRAI Rider who carried a banjo:
R.I.P. Michael “Moon” Mullen
This guy was the original Ragbrai Banjo guy who rode in 41 Ragbrais. He died of cancer on May 22. I only started riding in 2005 and there were some years that Moon and I actually got together and did some banjo jamin’ but I never saw him at the old “Peanut Butter Jam”. On this year’s ride, I was approached by a few of Moon’s friends who asked me if I knew him. “We all knew Moon”, I answered.
Drummers Lost in 2017
Saturday, December 30th, 2017A Memorial to our friends we lost in 2017
He was the composer of the “Symphony of 1000 drums” which we played sometime in August, 2008 (See HERE) . Halim was a professor of music at Kent State and an early inventor of electronic forms of music known as Musique concrète.
Bob showed up at one of my drum circles in suburban Chicago and became a regular (I’m assuming it was because he lived close to the circle). A drummer for most of his life, he was one of the members of a Chicago band called The Shadows of Knight, a band well known after recording the Van Morison cover GLORIA.
You will be missed.