This is F'in Genius

A lovely song about Bob Barr... Seen on samsedershow.com.

Beetle Bokeh, Spectacle Island

This little guy just flew up to me as I was sitting on a bench near the summit of the south drumlin of Boston's great midden, better known as Spectacle Island. If you're ever given the opportunity, you really ought to go see the sights at Spectacle Island...

Flower Blur 2

This one is from a series of intentionally blurred photos I did over the same weekend as the previous entry. It was a really bright day out, and nearly noon, so shadows were really stark. These little flowers were sitting in deep shadow, but I noticed they were picking up every bit of light that was coming their way. In the series is a photo I took of these same flowers, but without the blur. You can barely see them. It was only when I lengthened the exposure and started moving the camera around that their amazing blue color comes up.

Trollshot 2

Taken over Memorial Day weekend. We took the Harbor tour out to Spectacle Island. Really beautiful out there. I have a lot of pictures I like from this set. I'll post a few of them

Jobriath

This guy tanked, and if ya hear of him at all, you hear of him as a joke. Gotta say though: Though he owes a huge amount to David Bowie, I think he's got his own musicality and a nice Lou-meets-Mick style to him. Wish I'd known about him back in the day. This was right up my alley, taste-wise.

The other thing about him is that he was the first openly gay national rock act. With a $500,000 (mid-seventies, US dollars: probably multiple millions today) record deal. They got him everywhere you got a rock act in those days, media-wise. People really wanted this to work, but it was way too much, way too soon for this neanderthal country. And the Bowie thing did hurt him. Died of complications due to aids in 1983, but he was out of rock 'n' roll long before that.