General Musings

Lest we not forget Mingering Mike

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I was also fortunate that we had time to visit the Smithsonian American Art gallery before the Atlas show. I had been looking forward to the Mingering Mike exhibit ever since I first read about it. I snapped some photos in the exhibit (the signs only said no FLASH photography, so I took that as a sign that non-flash photography was allowed). Turns out the photos were unnecessary, because THEY SELL A FREAKING COFFEE TABLE BOOK OF THE ENTIRE COLLECTION IN THE GIFT SHOP!  Yes, of course I bought one.

Kudos to DC and the Smithsonian for recognizing the value of folk art!

General Musings

The Goddess Is Alive (and a foot!)

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Wonderful show this evening at the Atlas on H Street NE. It has been a long time since I last took the girls to see Rachel perform, and I had forgotten how much I missed her voice, at least until the first notes came out.

Loads of beautiful and sometimes silly Goddess joy.  I especially enjoyed the Klompen instrument.

So glad we braved the ice and freezing bullshit weather to have such a wonderful time in the show tonight.

General Musings

What if the Dead shows are just a giant scam?

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grateful_dead-steal_your_face-sailfastchicagoThink about this. What if there ARE NO SHOWS?

Imagine — announce three final nights in Chicago.

Anticipating demand of all us nostalgic sentimental heads throughout the decades, have your crew of secret minions buy up most of the tickets, and sell them on StubHub for 10x face value.

Flee the country, cancel the shows, inflated ticket buyers will only be able to get face value for refunds, they pocket all the profit.

GENIUSES, I TELL YOU.  GENIUSES.

It’s like a Rock and Roll pump and dump scam!!!

Books, James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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I’m currently listening to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce, published 1916, begun in 1903 as Stephen Hero.

It’s hard to compare other authors to Joyce, especially when read by someone as talented as Donal Donnelly. During the fire and brimstone sermon, I almost found religion myself. Right there on I-95, in the dark, at 70 miles per hour.

Perhaps Joyce should have become a Jesuit priest after all…  reference…

It’s no wonder this book is considered one of the greatest English-language works in history.

Crime

Lyon Sisters Update

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lyonsistersI hope all of my long-time Maryland local friends are keeping up with the new developments in the case of the Lyon sisters, who went missing on March 25, 1975. It’s quickly coming up on the 40th anniversary of their disappearance.

Last February, MCPD declared Lloyd Lee Welch a person of interest. He had actually come forward on April 1, 1975 (he was maybe 18 then) reporting seeing the girls get into a car with a man. This was immediately after a $7,000 reward was offered. They took his statement, gave him a polygraph, and said that it indicated deception.

Later last summer, they declared Lloyd’s uncle a person of interest (Richard Welch of Hyattsville).  Until late last week, those of us who follow the case closely have been waiting for details on what led to these two declarations. Since that second declaration, MCPD has been working closely with investigators in Thaxton, Bedford County, VA (down in southwestern Virginia between Lynchburg and Roanoake) interviewing family members and searching properties. The family owns land on Taylor Mountain, including a private cemetery with unmarked graves.

Finally, court papers surfaced last week describing some of the facts and circumstances that led to these declarations.  I hope they’re coming close to solving this crime, it would be nice to close the books on one that haunted our childhoods.

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putting more of myself out there