Picture, if you will, an enchanting arboretum brimming with colorful flowers and other bright growing things. It’s a glorious sunny autumn day. A bride and groom are surrounded by admiring friends and family. A sacred ceremony is about to unfold for two loving people. It’s also, coincidentally, the 799th anniversary of Rumi’s birthday. Music and […]
A new crop circle appeared overnight in Wiltshire England. This one has concentric shapes that represent the famous equation of pi. For those who don’t remember your math, pi is the precise ratio of the lemon filling to the meringue.
Many people attribute crop circles, variously, to extra-terrestrials, beings from other dimensions, mother earth, and other […]
“Tonight’s forecast: dark. Continued dark until morning, when there will be scattered light.”
“You see all these low pressure systems on the weather map? Man, that’s a lot of lows. What this country need is more highs.”
– Al Sleet, the hippy dippy weatherman
I’m gonna miss George Carlin. Back in the ’60s when he was doing Al […]
I’m just back from Nashville and a few days writing songs, which as I’m sure you know is great fun and hard work. (What? You’re not falling for the hard work part? I think it was Oscar Wilde who said there are times when art almost approaches the dignity of manual labor.) Anyway, that’s why […]
Yesterday I met a guy who’s hoarding gasoline because it’s doing better than the stock market. Except for the potential explosion in his basement, why not? You know the dollar’s in trouble when people from Europe are flying to New York to shop for bargains.
These are the times that try men’s souls. (Who said that? […]
“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research.”
– Albert Einstein
Maybe you’ve read about the new supercollider in Switzerland. Scientists want to smash protons together to simulate the beginning of the universe and see what happens. Admirable, certainly, and a bargain at only 8 billion dollars.
Except there’s a teensy problem. It seems […]
What would you say if I told you there was a tree with seeds that purify water, green leaves more nutritious than spinach, tasty (also nutritious) edible pods, several other parts that work as medicines, and it thrives in some brutal climates.
I know what you’d say. “Cool! Just don’t make me eat the leaves.”
No, what […]
While singing for 3,600 people in Singapore, my comedy bit about the Top 10 Whiny Victim Love Songs went over like, well, day-old oatmeal. A smattering of laughs, but nothing like the response I get here in the Land of Dr. Phil and Oprah.
I was puzzled. Don’t they have love songs in Singapore? Did I […]
