Rumpus Room
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
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!
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
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 […]