RANDOM JACK

Date: May 6, 2009 6:31 PM The Trace We pulled out of Louisiana so stuffed with crawfish, oysters, beignets, and pralines that I have serious...

JAZZMAN CHRONICLES. DISSEMINATE FREELY. By Jack Random I’ve got news for the talking heads: Nobody cares about the party identification of...

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Dear President Obama, On behalf of myself, friends, family and lite...

Beatlick TR: Not in the desert anymore Next morning the skies are still gloomy. There is so much moisture in the air that neither Joe nor I...

Ooh that smell. Can't you smell that smell? Wet pavement on the open road. How long has it been? Well down Highway 90 my navigator Beat...

by Chris Mansel I was writing a play, about a man who went blind in the middle of a war. He crossed the lines over and over till he was sho...

Beatlick Travel Report: Aguirre Springs With a conflicted heart I am pointing my van east toward Tennessee. My little house back there is mi...

Subject: The end of unlimited internet Dear Friends, I loathe emails that try to alarm me, usually to sell advertising. I do not watch news ...

Subject: Beatlick TR: Santa Fe Date: Apr 8, 2009 5:54 PM Beatlick Travel Report: Santa Fe After two weeks to distress in Albuquerque and ano...

Date: Mar 28, 2009 10:34 AM Well maybe I do have a few reports left in me as long as I'm doing something interesting. Things have calme...

Date: Mar 20, 2009 2:16 PM So bright and early the next morning I am calling "Sparky" the VW guy, my phone works fine, and he...

Dear Reader: My novel The Killing Spirit -- a metaphorical story of a modern day Crazy Horse, the Indian Holocaust, and the history of evil ...

Date: Mar 20, 2009 1:42 PM Forgiveness is the key to happiness and grace is the door to the peace beyond the mind. Rumi "Grace is the ...

Date: Mar 18, 2009 9:27 AM We pulled out of Quartzsite onto I-10 and picked up Highway 60 in just a few miles. It was a beautiful day, a bea...

[A response to The Real Economy & the Zero Solution, reposted below.] You've been on a roll lately and I've been so tied up with...

(for Pete Seeger) when does a body become a corpse when the bones are ground into meal the devil says of course well it was one april as I ...

Date: Mar 13, 2009 9:32 AM The approach to San Diego was well planned out. Referring to our national Wal-Mart location map we zeroed in on ...

Report #19 (Feb 26, 2009 1:37 PM) Well into our visit at the Slabs I wonder at the conversations around the firepits at the Oasis Club and M...

Date: Feb 20, 2009 12:17 PM Report #17 I’ve got some folks to look up here on the Slabs. Jamie Givens a good friend of ours back in Nashvill...

Feb 18, 2009 11:07 AM Report #15 Second day on the Slabs. Thank God – sun – no clouds. It has rained off and on since we got here and it’s c...