Civil War

Who do you have in the final four? Imagine living in Kentucky, basketball and horse racing are giant there. Now for real Kentucky and Louisville are playing against each other in the final four. It is brother vs. brother. Basketball is so crazy in Kentucky that when UK had its 139 game home winning streak broken, they flew the flag over the capital at half-mast. Read more here about perhaps the greatest basketball state in our Union.

Mike Ferris

Although I have the rhythm of a stone, I still love Rhythm and Blues. A friend came to me recently with a name to Google, 'Mike Ferris'. After I read about him I went to YouTube and found him,  and I could not stop listening to him. He is beyond imaginable. Click here to listen to him and Jimmy Hall sing "Will The Circle Be Unbroken".

The Trishas

If you like just pure beautiful music click here.

Final Four

I talked to to Tom Waits in his normal booth at the Chili Parlor Sunday after the Final Four was set. I asked him if he was going to recruit a team to make a run at the Final Four what kind of guys would he want? Here was his reply;


"It's like Charlemagne or one of those old guys said," he notes. "You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in."

Change

 

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Seven Deadly Sins"

 

"Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice."

Mahatma Gandhi

The Ride

Here are ten modes of transportation I would like to take someday;

Ride an air boat on the Wapsie.

Take the night train from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

Fly a seaplane to Belize.

Ride a rickshaw through the streets of Delhi.

Ride a motercycle through Latin America.

Ride a bike down Pikes Peak in Colorado.

Ride an Amish hay Wagon.

Parasail over the Himalayans.

Take a cruise ship down the Volga.

Ride a zip line in the Amazon.