Revisiting one of Hip Hop's earliest superstars. “I’m not trying to be new school and I’m not old school – I’m classic. There’s a lot of new cars and there’s a lot of old cars, but I’m just classic in doing what I do.” – LL Cool J LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James), […]
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Among my skills: Wordpress Websites, e-commerce, short films, photography, illustration, layout, writing, social activism and project management. I also host a weekly music show that is completely produced, written, researched and engineered by myself.
Adult Contemporary 79-82 (60 min. of music)
Music for the lovelorn that took a stranglehold on the charts. “I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I’ve done my job in a world that’s getting colder and colder by the day.” – Lionel Richie The 1970’s were a tumultuous decade for […]
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Steely Dan Live Bootleg 1974 (60 mins. of music) #Pride2018 Special Program
A special program featuring a special group and dedicated to those living inside and outside simultaneously. “I’ve never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.” – Donald Fagen of Steely Dan What we have here for all of you today is something special, and in a sense, […]
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Power Pop (60 mins. of music)
A brief overview of one of the most durable of all Rock and Roll sub-genres. “Pete Townshend coined the phrase to define what the Who did. For some reason, it didn’t stick to the Who, but it did stick to these groups that came out in the ’70s that played kind of melodic songs with […]
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Going Places (60 mins. of music) #summer
A geographical playlist to kick off your Summer travel season. “If you copy, it means you’re working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.” – Billie Holiday Now that we have passed Memorial Day Weekend, welcome to the […]
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Pearl Jam in the 1990’s (60 mins. of music) #grunge
One of the few survivors of the 1990's Seattle music scene. “Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.” – Jeff Ament Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Pearl Jam are one of the biggest acts associated with the Grunge movement of the early 1990’s, and are one of the architects […]
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#Pride2018 Commodity, Not Community (Free Download)
What #Pride2018 events have become and why this piece exists. Welcome back one and all. Every month, I like to give something away. Typically, it will be an item that has been out of circulation for a while, and more often than not, it is an item that was created, never used and archived. Sometimes […]
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World Psychedelic (60 mins. of music)
Celebrate a time long gone that celebrated the counterculture in a truly groovy way. “Nao estou te rejeitando, estou me protengendo.” (I’m not rejecting you, I’m holding on”) – Rita Lee of Os Mutantes Psychedelic music first came to prominence in the 1960’s as one of the leading music forms of the then-emerging counterculture scene […]
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Detoxing From Cigarettes after 38 Years
AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING YOUR SAFETY AROUND ME CURRENTLY. Consider this your warning: I am detoxing off of cigarettes after 38 years of use, and not for myself, but for my husband, who just had quadruple bypass surgery. If you have never done this, or detoxed from any other dangerous drug, like […]
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Travis Bear Chocolate Cake
Grandma's oldest recipe, adapted from an old Hershey's recipe and modernized a little. My most requested recipe, and one I have been making since the mid-1970’s. This will make either one 9 by 13 sheet cake or two 8 or 9 inch round cake pans. Ingredients Dry (Cake) 1 3/4 cups flour (plus about one tablespoon […]
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