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It's a Block, I reckon: Picker's Progress - Part 5: The Picker "Bands Together"
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It's a Block, I reckon. Monday, February 15, 2010. Picker's Progress - Part 5: The Picker "Bands Together". By the fall of 1997, I had already experienced one. Rite of passage: buying a guitar and learning how. To play it. Now, that rite was succeeded by a. Complementary one: joining/forming a band. Recall that I got my first guitar in August, 1996. I had exactly ONE YEAR of playing experience when I. Felt this urge. By any reasonable standard I was. Jumping way ahead of myself. Her the bluegrass "boom-c...
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It's a Block, I reckon: December 2008
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It's a Block, I reckon. Monday, December 29, 2008. Things Have Come Together. Looks like I'll be able to take some classes next month! Friday, December 12, 2008. It seems like every time we turn around, there are experts ready to tell us how fat and out of shape we are. This sort of thing is irritating enough by itself, but when it gets into the church it becomes even more intolerable. Take, for example, the. Meant to be conveyed in a sarcastic tone)! How about milk and cheese products? When you start th...
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It's a Block, I reckon: Review - Land of Lincoln
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It's a Block, I reckon. Friday, October 2, 2009. Review - Land of Lincoln. Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America. Atlantic Monthly Press: NY, 2007; 279 pp. Almost 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln continues to. Dominate American history and popular culture. Yet who is Abraham. Why does he have so many different faces? Claimed by different interest groups? And how should we separate. Lincoln the man from Lincoln the icon? Land of Lincoln: Adventures. In Abe’s America. Seeking, yet not quit...
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It's a Block, I reckon: May 2009
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It's a Block, I reckon. Wednesday, May 27, 2009. If You Want Thinking Man's Non-Fiction. Then Malcom Gladwell is your best bet. Maybe you've heard of him? Critically acclaimed books, including. 2005) His most recent publication is. Which I just finished reading this weekend. The central thesis in Gladwell's writings is that nothing in. This world happens for any ONE reason. Human activity,. Human inactivity, the vagaries of random events.all of. We convince ourselves that there is one simple reason.
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It's a Block, I reckon: "A shotgun blast, a thunderclap, a loud metallic noise, the clash of cymbals, a lightning strike..."
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It's a Block, I reckon. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. A shotgun blast, a thunderclap, a loud metallic noise, the clash of cymbals, a lightning strike.". Or the sound of every door in the house slamming.". And here I thought it was just the cars on the CSX Railroad bumping. On the ties as they clatter through downtown Marietta. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Come in a can, put there by a man. It Is Tomas, Blast Yer Eyes. Shepherd's Pie (Political, You Know.).
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It's a Block, I reckon: July 2009
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It's a Block, I reckon. Tuesday, July 28, 2009. If this is love. As a Civil War afficianado, I enjoyed Charles Frazier's. 1997), the story of a North Carolina soldier who deserts from the. Confederate army and journeys back home to the woman he left. Behind. That's the general synopsis; the actual book is much more. Complex and layered. It's a challenging read, full of detail and nuance,. And a heartrending story; without giving away the ending, I'll simply. Stringband tunes, Sacred Harp. Monday, July 6,...
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It's a Block, I reckon: February 2010
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It's a Block, I reckon. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. A shotgun blast, a thunderclap, a loud metallic noise, the clash of cymbals, a lightning strike.". Or the sound of every door in the house slamming.". And here I thought it was just the cars on the CSX Railroad bumping. On the ties as they clatter through downtown Marietta. Saturday, February 20, 2010. From Depression to Miserableness.Give Me a Reason to Live, MSN. You may remember a post from earlier this year on RealEstate. Well, they've done it again.
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It's a Block, I reckon: February 2009
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It's a Block, I reckon. Thursday, February 26, 2009. A friend of mine recently posted a link to a rather trippy Beach Boys home video. For the song "Wouldn't It Be Nice? In that spirit, here's another trippy video. From the same time period, for a band and a song that I've always thought highly of. Update (05/02/09): Found another one to replace the one that was removed. Enjoy! Saturday, February 14, 2009. The next Mickey Rourke. I be stuck up in Folsom Prison.Fo' shizzle.". At least to me.
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It's a Block, I reckon: April 2009
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It's a Block, I reckon. Sunday, April 26, 2009. Picker's Progress - Part 2: The Picker Goes Ghetto-Fabulous. Timeline: 1990 - 1993. Floyd Middle School, in beautiful Mableton, Georgia, was where I. Actually, let me correct that.it's where I. Rap music. As any. Self-respecting musicologist would know, rap music was around long. Before 1990; in fact, it was over a decade old by that time. And to. Be sure, I had heard snatches of it before- -mostly MC Hammer and. Proud, and unexpurgated.*. Really understand...
