Kaleidoscope (UK)

Little Tom William

From eBay:
""From the imagination of John Henry Toney comes "A Purple Stud Horse and Little Tom William". The horse is purple, orange and brown with what looks like blue stockings on his legs. Little Tom William is an imaginary character of John Henry's. He has his cap turned backwards and his britches hanging low on the hip. He is smoking a big cigarette with smoke curliing all around. As John Henry puts it, "fire on one end and a fool on the other.""

Gary McFarland

Not until I'd heard Wendy and Bonnie's "Genesis" LP had I heard anything arranged/produced and/or composed by and sometimes featuring the vibraphone of Gary McFarland.

He died a mysterious death in 1971, in a Manhattan bar, from a drink spiked with methadone.

waste reducing exfoliating body cleanser

bad idea=waste reducing exfoliating body cleanser by Green Natura

This body cleanser, or soap, was provided in the bathroom of The James hotel in Chicago, the place I stayed this past weekend. Each bar has a big oval hole in the middle, "designed to eliminate the unused center of traditional soap bars."

Why is this such a bad idea?

Instead of being left with a little chunk, the "unused center," you're left with a little ring. And this little ring is pretty much the same as a little chunk. From what I can tell, the little leftover ring of waste reducing exfoliating body cleanser is about equal in mass to the typical leftover chunk of your traditional soap.

On the back of the packaging they go on to remind us that "This soap is cruelty free and contains no animal fat or byproducts. This carton is made from natural recycled packaging printed with soy based inks."

Organic Gummybears

This being the week following Halloween, there's a lot of unopened candy in the grass and on the ground around my neighborhood, intentionally dropped or not. The organic gummybears I found the other day probably fall into the former category.

Two dimes and a twenty dollar bill

Today I went walking in the park. I went on the short forest walk. There I found a dime, then another, and then a twenty dollar bill. The serial on the bill begins with the letters "IF." Weird.

Henri's Many Names

Henri Grayson
Henri Gray
Henri G.
H.G.
Henrik
Hen-Bo
Hen
Little Hen
Little Boy
Little Lamb
Little Groany
Ronald McDonald
Little Ronald
Cuddlebug
Mr. Sniffles

East of Eden - From Snafu Live 1970 {Part 2 of 2}.

Here's East of Eden with "Moth" on French TV in 1970. This track is from their first LP, Mercator Projected, which I found a few days ago and have listened to about 100 times since. This was released before King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King." Unfortunately East of Eden changed into a more jazz-rock outfit afterwards, much like what happened to Soft Machine after "Third." Between 1968 and 1970, they did play shows with, amongst others, Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, Arthur Brown, Caravan, Amon Duul, and Family.

Interesting eBay Find #11,533

Another Weltron radio, this one w/o an 8-track player, and in a style I've never seen before!

The Head of an Indian

I found this head in an antiques mall in Alpena, Michigan. It is life-size and weighs about ten pounds.


His new home.

Smokes in the Sky

A little more than a week ago, the Saturday of the U Mich/U Conn game, a plane wrote a big "M" and a big "BLUE" in the sky. There were two "M"s, actually, floating over Ann Arbor and all the college students, football fans, and organically-inclined, irritated-by-the-football-game folks below.