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Seen this type of mining in a parcel between routes 47 and 347, near their northern merge. We assumed it was used for the building/improving of 347.

Gregory Peck speaking of Bob Dylan at the Kennedy Center Honors, pretty much explains Bob Dylan. Mr. Peck mentions the references about him in the song Brownsville Girl. Co-written w/ Sam Shepard, I think it's Dylan's best song. "The only thing we knew for sure about Henry Porter. Is that his...

Read a magazine article on this crazy escapade years ago. One quote in the article that stuck with me all these years came from an anonymous Philly friend of John that had followed him to NYC. "I used to think Philly was just a smaller version of New York. Until I moved to NY and realized that...

John Lennon would've been 85 today.

Memories of when I was very young? This. I think today's youth needs to hear this.

It was recently the 80th birthday of the classical violinist Itzhak Perlman. Which had me rolling thru his wide ranging performances. (Along w/ his amazing classical performances, Itzhak playing bluegrass w/ John Denver is gold.) And came upon the finale of the TV show, Fiddlers Three. Where...

Most, if not all, of the chain stores are using AI facial recognition in store, along with the AI license plate readers in the parking lot. A lawsuit was recently filed by a HD customer for using this technology to track him w/o his consent. There is no such thing as a hack-proof database...

He was The King.

Some performances are timeless. This video is from Elvis' third (?) appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. His first appearance on the show was 9/9/56. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Seen some crazy clown face painters in Philly one night. It was explained to me that they are called Jugalos and are fans/followers of the rap group Insane Clown Posse. Don't know where they all come from or why they do it. I do know that you can spot fans/followers of Neil Young because...

Don't remember any truly scary situations happening to me. But the above story reminded me of one hot summer day. When was I was walking down a sand road, back to the truck, after clearing a large blowdown on the PBT. Disheveled, sweat soaked, covered in dust and wood chips, with a large...

This Bottom Line recording of Jungleland is stamped 7/12/74. It's amazing how many Wiki pages there are for the album, its songs, and the people involved. This live recording reminded me of the hour long, all Bruce, all live recordings, weekly Saturday morning radio show from one of the Philly...

Born to Run was released fifty years ago today. "Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge. Drinking warm beer in a soft summer rain." The poets down here don't write nothing at all. They just stand back and let it all be. Wikipedia says this live Bottom Line recording was the public debut...

Because they had no loaners available, a dealership paid for my Lyft rides once. I've been using Lyft ever since for the occasional trips picking-up and dropping-off vehicles. No complaints. Never used Uber.