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Dennis The Drummer

Dennis The Drummer

PICTURE CREDIT: The Mighty Hannibal with Atlanta City Council Proclamation about breaking the color barrier with Dennis St. John Dennis St. John played drums on “Spooky,” a really cool hit song my older sisters had among their vast 45-rpm record collection in 1968. It was sung by Dennis Yost and his band The Classics Four […]

HAPPY EQUINOX from as-told-to HR

HAPPY EQUINOX from as-told-to HR

What a country! This past Sunday luck had me spending nine hours on the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah in nature. I hiked and climbed and swam in Snow Canyon State Park, which is located in southern Utah near Zion & Bryce National Parks. Then, a miracle: RONNIE’S PASTRAMI Deli appeared semi-magically on our drive back […]

OCCUPY STRIKE!

OCCUPY STRIKE!

Hank Dipped in Honey 5773 Silt pond squatter amid petrified sandstone buttes in hot snow canyon state park north of St. George Utahhhhhh The Occupy movement’s one-year-birthday gathering at Wall Street yesterday featured 180 arrests. Compare that with the Chicago teachers marching recently for days and days–and very few arrests. This is why Occupy needs […]

Footfalls

Footfalls

Upon reading the report, “EX-NFL players face greater risk of ALS, Alzheimer´s.” How they´re four times as likely as other men their age to die of those diseases… http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-nfl-concussions-death-20120906,0,842879.story Well, I played NCAA football, not NFL, which makes it maybe half as dangerous to my health, but this came into my fading brain about playing […]