http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog Vibrating at the Frequency of Fun Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:57:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When we last encountered Charlie a few weeks ago, I told you that, at 105 years of age, he had slipped on the ice while shoveling his front walk, broken his ankle, and driven himself to the hospital. I heard that piece of the story from others, and like many ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/07/27/charlies-longevity-secrets/ If you travel (and maybe even if you don't), eventually an airline loses your luggage. For reasons you can't possibly foresee, or even imagine, sometimes it actually works out for the best. I'd been hired to speak and sing for a school group (teachers, counselors, administrators) in Alamosa Colorado. The gig ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/07/04/nice-people/ I have a new roommate. A street dog. She showed up a couple of months ago, unannounced, and decided not to leave. (Like many of my former girlfriends.) She's cute, exotic looking, and since that's all I require, I was instantly smitten. Me being a convenient and easy source of ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/06/28/house-bitch/ Loved this cartoon, sent today by alert reader Mary Carol Moore. Maybe you can relate... Coincidentally (or not) I have a new CD (and T-shirts) with a title song that riffs on this very subject: Analog Brain In A Digital World http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/05/25/analog-brain-in-the-restaurant/ NOTE: By request, I have excerpted this story from my book, Atilla The Gate Agent: Travel Tales and Life Lessons From A Musical Laf-ologist. During 1990 I lived in the Cayman Islands, working as an entertainer at a posh resort. Despite the laid back, exotic lifestyle, it was a period of ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/04/23/six-months-to-live-the-story-of-evy-mcdonald/ This has nothing to do with bailouts, derivative traders, or sub-prime mortgages. It's about my little home town bank and how they make me smile. Every day just inside the front door there's a table with cookies and coffee for the customers. People can just help themselves. And believe me, they ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/04/16/cookies-and-banking/ Yes, amazingly, there's a correlation. Here's a short list: 1. Influences Are Important Or at least count for a lot. For example, there are many great love songs in the world, but there are a lot of other songs -- masquerading as love songs -- that are really about taking hostages. They ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/03/24/businesslife-lessons-from-songwriting/ Warning: bathroom humor alert. Sorry, but I couldn't let this go unreported. A company in India is currently developing a soft drink made from cow urine. A major Hindu cultural group wants to market it as a healthy alternative to Coke. (I'm not kidding.) Since marketing is everything, the choice of a ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/03/16/strange-but-true/ The Hummer automobile is finally going the way of the woolly mammoth and the pterodactyl. The news of the Hummer's demise has been greeted with the same universal sense of regret as the sudden death of a rabid possum. Even the Chinese don't want it now. And when the Chinese ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/02/26/gleeful-guilty-hummer-hypocrite/ Brian Luke Seaward has just released a beautiful new film about the healing powers of nature. (Narrated by Michael York!) It's up to his usual standards, which is to say: high. You can preview it from the links on his website. (Just scroll down a bit and it's on the ... http://www.gregtamblyn.com/blog/2010/01/08/new-earth-songs-documentary/