If you have Tommy on your iPod, fire it up. Or fire up this: Tommy – Overture We saw Roger Daltrey at the Villa Marina a week ago. If you are our age and grew up on what is now known as “Classic Rock”, I don’t need to tell you who he was. He was [...]
I’m just returning from the Bay Area where we attended the extraordinary wedding of son David and his new bride, Mary. If you’re not familiar with their story, it’s kinda, well, incestuous. Mary is the daughter of Lisa’s dear friend from childhood, Anne. Lisa’s mom and Anne’s mom are dear friends of over 50 years. [...]
The “Tourist Trophy” (“TT” to everybody, everywhere) is a two-week series of motorcycle road races that comes every June to the Isle of Man. In many ways it is the heartbeat of the island, pumping in world-wide publicity, civic pride, and no small amount of money for 14 days, then everything returns to the palpable [...]
It’s not Fox Creek in Grayson County, VA; it’s definitely not the Davidson River near Brevard, NC. But the Groudle River (yes, they call it a river) is a five-minute walk from my front door. You could even see it from my front door if it weren’t all covered by the trees that surround it. [...]
So, after learning the joys of small town musical acts (e.g. Orange Peel, AVL Civic Center, Thomas Wolfe), we’ve signed up for a bunch of the shows at the Villa Marina, a 100-year-old concert venue smack in the middle of downtown Douglas, Isle of Man. Last night was “DC/AC: Thunderstruck!” They were quite awesome. The [...]
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