Much to do, "miles to go," cause of you.

Set down this

and this

with friends

celebratrating what can be.

not forgetting where we must go

Piano on main street today, big smile from me; remembering Washington Square in the sixties, always a piano or two..

For the New Orleans' smiling face i met around the corner at provision's today...love that city.

bring the pooch to sing along

I'm currently reading "A Start in Life", a 1970 novel by one of my favorite authors, Alan Sillitoe. His books have tough Northern England types who get by on "cunning" and are brutally honest. In the spirit of that...

Last week was dedicated to the Repurrblicans and Repuplicans because of their convention; and I was originally thinking to do an homage to the Democat convention this week, but I'm already tired of them before they begin! So let's do something else. Let's be UnConventional!

But first, The Recommendations:

Now, on Desert Island Discs'R'us...........

Which song or LP/CD would you have if you were lonely and alone?

Personally, I'm going for Stanford's 5th Symphony with the glorious organ finale. And wonderful Andante.

Pinch-hitting-(hitting-hitting) for shaz (shaz shaz)....Tonight I consider myself....the luckiest blogger....on the face of the Earth. I'm whupping up an OT on the quick.

First, a little background before I get to venting about the state of the world.

Hecate's posting of Donovan's "Universal Soldier" in the republished essay Too Many Dogs put this topic in mind.

I'm not thinking of your standard battle songs here -- no "Over There", no "Battle Hymn of the Republic", no "Star Spangled Banner". I'm thinking more of songs from an anti-war, or at least anti-glorification of war perspective.