A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago. The next day, the oil story was buried on page six of the New York Times business section. Apparently, the price of oil is not considered significant news, even […]
After my last post it occurred to me that some people might never have heard of W. Lee O’Daniel.
He was a flour mill manager in Fort Worth who hit on the idea of advertising his flour with a radio show that featured a band called the Light Crust Doughboys. O’Daniel himself […]
It was down in Tulsa, about thirty years ago,
At Cain’s Academy, down in old Oklahom’
The dust was blowin’ but the music was right,
And W. Lee O’Daniel played all night
Actually it was about 30 years ago that I first heard James Talley sing those lines. In those days most of my record collection was […]
The weatherman was predicting rain but it never happened. There was a gorgeous blue sky on the first day of spring. Everything in the lawn was green and perky. Salvia greggi was blooming in several colors. The mutabilis and rouletti were covered with blooms. The white wisteria […]
Vultures never are on anybody’s list of cute & cuddly, or even on the list of admired animals. But Rob MacGrogan has some good words for them in a blog called Spruce Pine Cottage.
Actually I am kind of on the same page as Rob because I have lately been learning […]
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