Progressively Speaking
In the late sixties, the mighty tree of rock sprouted a new limb. This bough wove its intricate way amongst all other genre of the era, integrating classical, folk, rock,…
Robin Trower
This Carbon Based Life Artist of the Week 1974 was a tough year for rockers, there were good albums coming but five of the top ten albums belonged to John…
The Pressure in The Haystack
©2019, MJ Ostrander For any astrology aficionados out there, I’m an Aries. We’re supposed to crave undying attention. Friends would tell you I’m a human disco ball, a living breathing…
Time Compression
In a few days, it will be the one-hundredth anniversary of 1920. The first world war was over and the next twenty years away. I was a born…
The Funk Before Christmas
The Funk Before Christmas © 2019, MJ Ostrander When the calendar says it’s December, I get the sensation that time can compress or expand itself. The clock moves differently for…
Dead Mall
Dead Mall By David Glenn Cox They came upon us suddenly, shopping centers enclosed from the weather. Like Las Vegas hotels each new one to be bigger and better with…
The Trouble in the Haystack
The Trouble In The Haystack © 2019, MJ Ostrander I don’t job hunt on weekends. No twenty-four seven thrills for me. There’s no point in that level of masochism, nothing…
You Cannot Have a Criminal President!
When Richard Nixon was impeached, it was clear to me, Nixon was guilty of being involved in the Watergate cover up. That guilt meant that he could no longer remain…
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