I present to you highlights from the first day of the San Diego Ukulele Festival. As I mention in the commentary, it was an eclectic collection of musicians, a few of whom I have edited into this montage. Be sure to watch to the end & hear Taimane Garnder. This weekend was my first exposure […]
Every year for the past however many it has been, I record Christmas carols and post them on You Tube. The video below is my first of this season of 2011. Some notes: 1. I did not mean to imply in the editing of this video that Bliss the Cat is Baby Jesus. 2. Ta […]
I am saddened that my ukulele repair skills did not prove to be all I thought they were. A month or two ago, with the help of a friend who owned a soldering iron, I was very proud that I fixed the battery connection on my uke. See, it has a battery-powered electronic pick up […]
I’ve never truly understood bicycle shorts. I suspected that those who wore them probably did so for some semi-erotic reasons under the pretense of what?… better aerodynamics & freedom of movement? Why else would any self-respecting dude wear what amounts to spandex in public? I finally understand the function of bicycle shorts. They’re to keep […]
Doesn’t the very term “Joko History” itself imply narcissism? See, I could name two or three things that have really bugged me over the years as I have observed other bloggers that I am in danger of repeating right now: an inflated opinion of oneself (by using the calendar as a medium for re-posting, I […]
This is a follow up to the blog I wrote yesterday about the Rebecca Black phenomenon. I got inspired this morning to cover her song on uke and make a video out of it. I thought this might be a novel idea. Boy, was I wrong. I thought my ukulele cover of Rebecca Black’s Friday […]
