A KATRINA STORY: PART 1 Watching the televised weather reports in New Orleans in the last week of August, 2005 was an exercise in fear management. By Friday, that big swirl of clouds called Katrina filled the entire Gulf of Mexico and looked as if it was headed straight at the “City that Care Forgot.”…
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog cast for a message from the emergency blog-o-thon network, and your personal “Daily Dose” administrator, Crazy-as-a-shithouse rat Little Georgie, the pink bunny slipper wearing, rust coated Shaman in exile on Helen Street: “Hey you! See that “share” button? The sign up for direct email delivery? The Google and Networked…
Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 6 VALIDATION… OR: “WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN!” Ahh, validation. The fuel that keeps us “outer-directive’s” fires stoked. Is it necessary to have validation to continue to be creative, to continue to do the work against the crushing forces of pragmatism? I wish I could answer that for…
Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 5 ENERGY PRODUCTION IN THE SUN OR: “MY WORDS FLY UP, MY THOUGHTS REMAIN BELOW… WORDS WITHOUT THOUGHTS NEVER TO HEAVEN GO.” We’re all familiar with Einstein’s famous equation, E=Mc2 (Energy equals Mass multiplied by the speed of light, squared). What does that really mean to a creative? Over simplified,…
Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 4 “THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH… THAN ARE DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY” It takes light 1/10th of a second to circumnavigate Earth 7 times. It takes light 20 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth. It takes light 120,000 years to travel from…
Creation, Validation and Inspiration: Part 3 “IT IS THE STARS, THE STARS ABOVE US, GOVERN OUR CONDITIONS” And so this brings my tale to the recent past. On June 1st, 2008, I wrote my Bourbon Street landlady my rent check and I had a $200 balance left in the account: not even enough to cover…
Creativity, Validation, and Inspiration: Part 2 “GOOD-NIGHT, SWEET PRINCE…” On a daily basis, 1,200 mgs. of Lithium and 1,200 mgs. of Lexapro were pumped into my little cracked egg of a head; an extremely potent combination of salt and serotonin re-uptake inhibitors so massive that I literally couldn’t see straight for about a year. It…
“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE” I’ve been delving a bit lately on the subject of creativity, and I’d like to share some thoughts; maybe open a dialog with anybody that might have their own spin on the conundrum that is “creation”, and it’s little sister known to all us “outer-directives”, validation. I’m just gonna dive right…
On Saturday Night during the Fourth of July holiday weekend, I got to play in my hometown with my childhood musical heroes, The Dean Brothers. The crowd was overwhelming. The Skaneateles Village Po-Po estimated the throng to be around 2,000 strong, an all time attendance record for a concert in Clift Park. I’d like to…