In honor of their CD release concert at the Empty Glass, take a listen to the Carpenter Ants version of “He Saved My Soul,” by Claude Jeter of the Swan Silvertones.
January 19, 2012
Farewell to Francis Joseph Falbo
As a collector of fine local obituaries (Happy Jack’s was the best!), this one today for Francis Joseph Falbo leapt off the Charleston Gazette obit page.
January 17, 2012
Monastery Nights: All Is Not Lost, After All
All I want to do is sit in the angled sun that pierces through the trees. I want to write something about today’s lunch at the monastery, which was personal in more ways than one.
January 13, 2012
A Somewhat Famous Cat Poses For Her Fans
Here is a rare photo of a cat posing with the article that brought her a degree of malodorous renown in certain corners of the State of WestVirginiaVille.
January 9, 2012
How to properly recycle a wedding ring
New in ‘Blogalachia’: I didn’t want it to go cheaply. I didn’t want it to pay for dinner or even for the start of my new life. I wanted it to perhaps find its way to a new hand, a new marriage and a new start | By Bill Lynch from ‘Ring Cycle’
January 7, 2012
The Future of this Wild Place is Up For Grabs
“The future of this wild place, and indeed of this wild state, is up for grabs. Hope still exists for this bioregion. Not the distant hope of the future, but hope in the moment, hope now …”
January 3, 2012
Starting the Year Off With Trees, Wind, Cloud and Train
I like to start every new year off with a woodland walk. While out in Barboursville Park this Jan. 1, 2012, I was transfixed by the whisper of wind through the trees and as a train whipped by it seemed like a good time for the first video of the year.
January 1, 2012
Elephants on the Loose: My Year in Video, Part 2
Putting up original video on the web is a lesson in humility. You labor for hours, days, fashioning some esoteric, cool, artistic, aesthetic, fabuloso thing, and then a chubby kid acts like a Jedi Knight and gets a quadrillion hits.
December 29, 2011
Gilligan to Gourmet Pigs: My Year in Video, Part 1
West Virginia, for those who haven’t been, is a curious place, full of curious nooks, crannies and people. Here is Part 1 of a survey of some of the more interesting video encounters around the state in 2011.
December 24, 2011
How Santa Warms Up for the Holidays with His Harp
So, this week a bunch of us headed out to the weekly Thursday night open mic at Boulevard Tavern in downtown Charleston, W.Va., hosted by Lou Argento. Who should show up to play open mic but Santa, armed with a harp.
December 24, 2011
“Zorro and Me,” a Tale of Being Ravished by Love
Her name was Amy. And his name? She called him ‘Allie.’ But that wasn’t who he really was in his heart of hearts. His true name was written with a ‘Z.’ And a slash! A tale of bruising love.
December 22, 2011
I Would Like to Formally Withdraw those ‘Dammits!’
Dammit Dammit Dammit. I say to myself, rounding the corner of a building on the Marshall University campus this morning espying my Honda. The sign of a hassle, flying its flag upon my windshield, a ticket.
December 21, 2011
A Half-Hour of Words With Ashoka and Havel
Thought for the day: “The richer the world economy becomes, the more the collective imagination of those who rule seems to atrophy. Ultimately, all common goals collapse into nothing more than efforts to increase production and trade.”
December 19, 2011
Six Variations on a Curve in the Road
I have spent my adult life rounding curves in the road here in West by god or so they say Virginia. There are curves around most every curve here.
December 16, 2011
Picture of the Day: On Blumenstein Mountain
West Virginia metal sculptor, raconteur, environmentalist and unaccountably still curly-haired Official Citizen of WestVirginiaVille Mark Blumenstein, sends along this view from the top of Blumenstein Mountain.
December 14, 2011
One Fiery Night in Poca, West Virginia
Davi and Pixie Della Fiamma play with fire. Davi breathes it, Pixie dances with it. This past Saturday night in a backyard in Poca, West Virginia, they put on a fiery show.
December 13, 2011
The Night They Lit 10,000 Candles on 10,000 Graves
The sun’s long gone, it’s dead dark now. Heading east on U.S. Route 60, I look to the left. What is that over there? Lights. Hundreds of small lights. No, thousands of them.
December 11, 2011
‘I’ll be your Santa, baby, come sit on my knee…’
The Berkely Springs-based band The Weber Brothers are back with a new Christmas tune, “I’ll Be Your Santa Baby.” The vampy piano tune sits squarely in that small but breathy genre of Christmas come-on tunes.
December 9, 2011
A Conversation Before Heading Out to Afghanistan
Albert Perrone queries a young man who used to come to his meditation group on his deployment to Afghanistan: “The good news is the unit we’re replacing over there had 14 casualties over the last year. 9 of them could have been prevented.”
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January 21, 2012
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