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Cajsa Lilliehook Visits 1964 (via It’s Only Fashion)
Welcome to 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act, the Gulf of Tonkin, the Ford Mustang (yeah!), and miniskirts. Cajsa Lilliehook gives us a mini, uh, small look at the year and the fashion at her...
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From the Writer’s Almanac: Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday was born on this day in 1915, according to Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. Them that’s got shall get Them that’s not shall lose So the Bible said and it still is news Mama may have,...
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For Mother Maybelle
Oh he taught me to love him and call me his flower That was blooming to cheer him through life’s dreary hour How i long to see him and regret the dark hour He’s gone and neglected his pale wildwood...
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Me and Arlo
I don’t need no diamond ring I don’t need no Cadillac car Just want to drink my Ripple wine Down in the Lightning Bar Down in the Lightning Bar Some people value fortune and fame I don’t care about...
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Contact Sheet 53 — Annie Klavinham
Contact Sheet is an irregular column of selected photographs and portraits from Residents of Second Life and other virtual worlds. All rights to featured images are reserved to the artists under...
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Song For a Winter’s Night
The lamp is burnin’ low upon my table top The snow is softly falling The air is still in the silence of my room I hear your voice softly calling If I could only have you near To breathe a sigh or two...
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So Long, Pete, It’s Been Good to Know Ya
“Some may find them [songs] merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.” I really have played a little guitar in...
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Circle In The Sand
Sundown all around Walking through the summer’s end Waves crash Baby don’t look back I won’t walk away again Oooooh, baby, anywhere you go We are bound together I begin, baby, where you end Some...
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Hallowe’en 2014 — Witchy Woman
Raven hair* and ruby lips Sparks fly from her finger tips Echoed voices in the night She’s a restless spirit on an endless flight Woo hoo, witchy woman See how high she flies Woo hoo, witchy woman She...
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The Carnival is Over
(Warning: picture-intensive, may take a little time to load, depending on your system) Say goodbye, my own true lover As we sing a lover’s song How it breaks my heart to leave you Now the carnival is...
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Ridin’ with the King
The King has gone home. Riley B. King, better known to his millions of devotees as B. B. King, died today at age 89. B. B. was respected by both contemporaries and by the many younger musicians in...
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Return to “The Carnival Is Over”— In Video Form!
When I did the original article “The Carnival Is Over” back in April, I strung the photos I selected to the lyrics of an old Seekers song, and included a clip from an Australian television show at the...
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Waitin’ For the Bus
Waiting for the bus. Where is the bus? The bus is late. Waiting for the bus in the rain. (in the rain) When the bus come? Where the bus at? Got my bus pass. Bus is much better than a train. (than a...
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I’ll Be Seeing You (At Fantasy Faire)
I’ll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day through In that small cafe The park across the way The children’s carousel The chestnut trees, the wishing...
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Telephone Line
Writing from Destin, Florida: Photo by Conan Bankersbox Hello, how are you? Have you been alright? Through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights That’s what I’d say, I’d tell you...
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Woodstock x 47
Well, I came upon a child of God He was walking along the road And I asked him, Tell where are you going? This he told me Said, I’m going down to Yasgur’s Farm, Gonna join in a rock and roll band. Got...
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We’re All Alone
I love doing “duet” sessions with Conan when he gets the chance. He cleans up nicely, and he’s gradually getting even better looking as time goes on. Here, we’re at part of the current exhibit in...
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Go Go Round
What might we have if Gordon Lightfoot’s early song, “Go Go Round,” was brought forward from the Sixties into the distant future …? The NEO-Japan sale event has some great clothes to illustrate it....
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Hyde-ing in Mayfair
That certain nightThe night we metThere was magic abroad in the airThere were angels dining at the RitzAnd a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square I may be right I may be wrong But I’m perfectly willing...
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Téir abhaile riú
Look how the light of the townthe lights of the town are shining nowTonight I’ll be dancing aroundI’m off on the road to Galway nowLook how she’s off on the townShe’s off on a search for sailors...
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