The following video is the second in my “Gumshoe Opera” series. It is the theme song from the science fiction detective novel “The Hydration War.” Although set sometime in the future, I took inspiration from the Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) societies, last known to be alive in 1500 Southwest United States. No one knows what became […]
“it was a dark and stormy night…” Fiction, horror, and mystery writers often use the setting of a “dark and stormy night” as a metaphor for troubled, uncertain, and sinister happenings. Today’s video comes complete with lots of rain and an unsettled-sounding Hollywood soundtrack. It is inspired by Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting “The Nighthawks.” A […]
Some things, like Yosemite National Park, never change, and that is good. From what I can see, it still looks the same as when Ansel Adams photographed it in all of its black-and-white glory. However, some other things do change; some even change quite frequently. Take, for example, modern musical styles. In this video, I […]
It’s been raining here a lot recently, and I have been listening to the sounds of rainfall. In this song, I evoke the music of a passing rainstorm. This Memorial Day, it is dedicated to those who stood and sacrificed for this country.
Hooray! An article I read over the weekend gave me the news that our national parks and monuments have begun to reopen in many parts of the country. Also, our free public beaches and shorelines have begun to allow people back to exercise and just have fun in the sunshine. These places are great for […]
Today’s post is about vintage automobiles and today’s racers. They have announced that the first NASCAR race will be next week, but no crowds will be in the stands. Well, it’s all about the speed on television; they put viewers in the driver’s seat and the fans in the stands are a blur to the […]
This Sunday is Mother’s Day. I’d like to wish all you ladies and moms and grandmothers out there “Happy Mother’s Day 2020!” People like you make my world rock!
One day, in a town where I used to live, I read a newspaper column about random snippets of conversation overheard in a restaurant, a theater, and on a bus. In the article, the journalist comprised a few of these overheard conversations: some funny, some inane, and some that didn’t make any sense at all. […]
As you know by now, people have been talking about “flattening the curve” in combating the coronavirus pandemic. In this case, we agree a lower “u” shape curve is better than a higher “v” shape curve, or worse yet, a linear line straight off the chart representing deaths over time. Through prescribed social mitigation, we […]
Because a good old Western is what you need sometimes, I’ve produced a video set in the Old West. Most of the footage comes from Bodie State Historic Park in California. It is a mining town turned ghost town, still intact and weathered after all these years. Unlike the ghost-town-like feeling in today’s city streets, […]