Thirst and Suffering in Modern Western Society By G. Apollo MacKenna PREFACE – October 2006 How many times have you heard, “everything happens for a reason”? It’s normally understood to mean that some outcome, usually positive, explains why something negative occurred prior to it, a very comforting idea when faced with an otherwise inexplicable tragedy. […]
Hey folks! I had the privilege of reading one of the most personally significant books of my life here in 2011. I would highly recommend it for anyone;. if you’ve ever had to take on issues of addiction and recovery in your family or for yourself, this story will be of tremendous impact. I had […]
I’m writing this blog as a distraction from the paper I want to finish by tomorrow morning. My topic is “Great activities for chemical dependency group therapy”. I’ve done the hardest part, namely determining what ten activities I want to write about, and so I thought I could use a little distraction in the form […]
Again, I am posting these videos primarily for my own purpose. Archiving old stuff from MySpace before it disappears into the uncertainty of that site’s now unsearchable future. The next part (I lost track of the numbering) features a neat special effect involving a toothpick and very small picture of my car and me meeting […]
I’ll say first off that I am posting this blog for my own personal archiving. Since MySpace doesn’t let one search for blogs anymore, I kinda have to re-create some stuff I want to save. Starting with this series, the very first Tour d’Joko, a car tip I took back in May of 2007. I’m […]
The inspiration for covering this song came from my Facebook activity feed. Someone posed the question: “What is your most romantic song of all time?”… This song was my reply. To this very day, I found that listening to the Jennifer Warnes version (this song was originally written by Leonard Cohen and then modified by […]
It seemed like it was going to be just the kind of go-out-and-meet-new-people at sober places event that I’ve been looking for in my neighborhood. I found the listing on the calendar of the Seattle Ukulele Players Association. It showed a “ukulele cricle” on the last Wednesday of every month not too far from my […]
Forty-two years ago, a young, brash, handsome colonel seized power in the oil-rich North African nation of Libya. This was the 1960’s. Handsome, young heads of state were all the fashion! Here, a new dictator, charismatic like Castro, but without all that nasty facial hair and geurrilla warfare dust. Just look at the young Gaddafi […]
I’ve performed in front of live crowds 100, maybe 150 times in the last few years. Each venue has it’s particular idiosyncrasies, and my state of mind and preparedness on each occasion varies as well. I’d think I would have gotten used to these variables by now, but last night, I was really thrown off […]
I am mirroring something here, that I just posted over at UkuleleUnderground.com. It’s kind of an interesting story, and I’m certainly curious as what it was that ended up in my hands tonight! I’ll update this blog if any of the ukulele experts at that site (where I happen to be a “Senior Member) come […]
