Don’t know why, but reggae sounds just right in Mendo…

Games People Play by Bob Andy on Grooveshark

Full moon Friday night

Jim Morrison said that it wasn’t until The Doors released a record that he was free to get on with creating something new. Now that Tiny Homes On The Move is finished, I’m looking out on the horizon for what’s next. Right now, it looks like this:

Blogs Rick has almost got The Shelter Blog up and running (with a Word Press template). My son Evan is going to manage it. Lew, Evan and I will post stuff on it. All shelter-related, unlike my eclectic blog. The idea is to do online what our book Shelter did in 1973: showcase owner-builders and the lifestyle that a bunch of us share. Providing as much of our own food and shelter as possible (you can’t be totally self-sufficient; self-sufficiency is a direction). As opposed to Dwell magazine, homes rich in color, utility, and good vibes. We intend this to be station central for people of the owner-builder persuasion.

   We’ll post all the stuff we are now getting from people who have been inspired by our books to build something. In this sense it’ll be different from other blogs in that much of the material will be original and unique, not a pastiche of what’s floating out in the web-o-sphere.

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4/9/14

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post St. Paul & the Broken Bones:

Very good version of the Sam Cooke classic but I still think this is the best:

And: 

Stevie at 12 years of age.  This song was written for Stevie by Clarence Paul and Henry Cosby. Many of the other songs he did early on were covers of Ray Charles songs.