Take a Moment: Better Things To Do Than Watch the Swiftboats

Tanbark likes ..... okay, he's wild for this!


Geraldine & Ezequiel_La mariposa

I was on a 'tubing run of my own when Geraldine arrived in my inbox. I was investigating the Collings OM small body guitar. I like it fine, but I'd like it better with mahogany/spruce wood rather than rosewood. I also don't think I'd care for the wide fingerboard. Still though, this guy rocks it. Compare with the D16H mahogany and the maple Taylor. Which do you prefer?


"Under The Double Eagle" side by side guitar comparison.

We used to call this song the "Sheep Hearder Stomp" when we'd go to barn dances back in the olden days. I lived in a small town in my youth and it was a real barn with a wooden floors and hay scattered about. The band would shout "Stomp" and the "dancers" would gather together 4 abreast, arms around your partners and proceed to do the Sheephearder's Stomp. Okay, it was basically flanks of people rushing forward a few steps then back a few, stomping and swinging around. You didn't want to be on the end because there were some collisons going on and you could become airborne on the swing around move. It was a mosh pit really. They tore down the barn and put up an indoor tennis court not long after I left that town. I digress *blush*

On another stop, I ran across this rather sweet song. Letha Allen on her little Gibson L1 which is a sweet guitar. Short scale, small body, mahogany/spruce. I had a 1969 B15, which was the lower end of the L series, and it was sweet but needed some fretboard work so I traded it for a J45. I love it too! Here she sings a very sweet song written by her mother, Margie Allen.


"The Banks of the River"


So the MSM has got their swift boats all in the water running the same game of distraction as they did for the last two Presidential elections. Pretty tiresome really. Sad. So let's just take a moment a pace ourselves here. We're going to need our energy to get out there and register voters and gotv when that time comes. I hope our votes will count this time. I just don't think this country can survive another 4 years of bushco/neocons. I would have hoped everyone had learned how they do this election dance. The Universe Herself knows we've seen it twice now.

In the meantime, let's love. That Crazy Love... (on a homemade Cigar Box guitar)



Peace and Love and Perseverance. This IS the best day ever after all. So there's that. :-)