It doesn't matter where you live--in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village--the chances are that you' ll be disturbed by jet planes, radios, oil - powered engines, etc. We seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music ...
(Note: on my other blog, I referenced using coconut oil as hair gel. This is true. I used the coconut oil as hair gel last week. And after that disaster I was like, “No more coconut oil hair gel for THIS girl! I’m only going to use it as conditioner!” Turns out, that prov...
whose energetic, endlessly curious Beat/Punk/Hippie sensibility informed it all. I was lucky enough to have a few stories published there – on a 1967 Doors concert, the great instrumental “Telstar,” the strange origins of Silly Putty, the lasting...
Well Ms. Samantha Stratton really got her act together since I adopted her name so many years ago. Apparently she’d recently risen to fame as the creator/writer of a new Netflix show called “Spinning Out” about professional ice-skating. In fact Samantha Stratton herself used to be a hi...
The burden of shells lifted, the absence of racket stinging his ear-drums. He heard a whistle, a way off. Fulshaw swept his arm upwards, climbing the parapet. “Come on, lads!” Bradshaw experienced a moment of indecision. Should he jump over the parapet first, risking getting marked dow...
and grounds outside temples and buildings. And sometimes water guns and water-filled balloons are used for fun. Groups of people sing and dance from place to place, carrying drums and other instruments. People will also visit their families and friends to color each other, and then share Holi...
I ain’t gonna lie to you. I guess my first time I might have been impressed (I was in my early 20s and hadn’t seen much of the world yet), but now all I see are beggars, grifters, kids way too young banging on drums way too loudly in hopes of a buck, and an overwhelming...
The bearing is a massive structure as you can see in the photo. Grooves in the walls draw the 20/50 weight synthetic oil from the well up to the top and spill it out to lubricate the inverted bearing which sits within the plane of the platter for reduced vibration. The bearing is...
It doesn't matter where you live--in the middle of a modern city, or a faraway village--the chances are that you' ll be disturbed by jet planes, radios, oil - powered engines, etc. We seem to be getting used to noise, too. Some people feel quite lonely without background music ...
4:34 p.m.— I put everything away in my car to prep to go out to the Happy Hour with everyone and it is only after the night is done I realize my entire face was like an oil slick (ugh! The curse of oily skin!).. I chat and have a great time, we even had free appetizer...