In the flurry of stuff that seems to always be going on, I nearly forgot to post anything about this documentary that I served as an Associate Producer for. It's a look at the early days of WRFL-FM-88.1, which I helped to start. 20 years later, I served as the Lexington producer for this bit which owes its existence to producers Kakie Urch and editor-producer Ayser Salman.
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Patio time!
Trucks and shovels and measurements and sand and gravel and screeds later, the patio that Lucy and I concocted is finally starting to look like ... a patio.
Monday, June 23, 2008
George Carlin: "a counterculture hero"
One of the great comics and — more importantly — social commentators of our times, I'm going to miss George CarlinThat guy could make me pee myself with laughter. In addition, he increasingly seemed to hit the nail on the head when it came to critiqueing the increasingly disturbing politics at play in our modern world.
George Carlin, r.i.p.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
E. Weston idolatry
After finding (and paying dearly for, btw) these gloriously saggy heirloom tomotoes at Kroger, of all places, I couldn't help but want to photograph them. Ed Weston, I ain't. A friend told me that Weston shot things like this pepper inside a tube. Some of great photography is definitely about clever.
jade crassula
I'm becoming obsessed with my Jades/Crassulas thanks to the wonderful folks over at GardenWeb.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Family Portrait
in Soddy Daisy, TN, everybody does "the Chicken," which is a hand position designed to hide the ever encroaching "waddle" that comes with age/wisdom. Note: Bill, my dear stepdad, is for some reason doing "The Vampire," which is a different photo move altogether.
Campsie Tree Calamity
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Keleigh and Brian's Wedding
Friday, May 23, 2008
Jim and the horse
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
The Coup vid from FreeKY Fest 2008
Here's a nice article that the Kentucky Kernel ran, following WRFL-FM's FreeKY Festival 2008. You can still donate to WRFL's signal upgrade Boost the Power Build the Tower fund right here!
Friday, May 16, 2008
bow-wrapped building
always ask

While biding my time in Somerset waiting for Lucy to complete her business, I hoofed it in search of the Pulaski County Library, with some difficulty:
- It had moved.
- The new location was wrong in Google Maps.
- The actual location was quite a few blocks back in the opposite direction.
- It was starting to rain.
It never hurts to ask, folks!
Me n John Sherman

Fountain Square, Somerset, Kentucky — Me with the statue of John Sherman Cooper and the blue-dyed fountain in the background.
live from Somerset

Dudez— it's the future.
I'm blogging from a park bench in the center square of tiny Somerset, Kentucky. I was on my way to the library (an internet favorite in small Kentucky towns), and then i decided to do a walk-around, with my handy-dandy TrendNet Hotspot detector, and it said I was golden just siting out next to the oddly-blue-watered fountain. Yup.
Lucy and I are en route to my brother's 40th birthday celebration at a house we've got in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. You wanna see it?
Here's a funny little coincidence: Before leaving town, I snagged a DVD from KET with an edition of Kentucky Life that features a segment on photojournalism legend Sam Abell. The other part of the segment was something I'd never heard of called Somernites Cruise. Well, in searching for a Somerset link to include above, I discovered that Somernites Cruise is — yeps — right here in Somerset. That's kinda weird, right?
Well, if you're stuck inside on a pretty nice Friday afternoon, maybe you want to check out MUTO a wall-painted animation.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Sons of the Silent Age: Bowie with Peter Frampton

I love the Internet, 'cuz it lets me find unnecessary yet wonderful bits of my past like this performance of David Bowie's "Sons of the Silent Age," a stand-out gem from his odd and garish Glass Spider tour in 1987 that included strangely enough, Peter Frampton on lead guitar as a part of his touring band. Frampton was easily a decade past his glory years, and yet it was just delightful to hear his golden soaring tenor as the counterpoint refrain on this, one of Bowie's finest nuggets. Easily my favorite memory of that show.
Friday, May 09, 2008
New Orleans: The Lensbaby Tour
I experienced Sunday in New Orleans with my Lensbaby-equipped camera in effect. And while I opted out of the finale day of Jazzfest, I have no regrets, as my travels included historic buildings, cocktails, Lakeview flood damage, a French Quarter history, and a cemetery visit that included a soundtrack by Santana, drifting over from the fairgrounds.
Here's the whole set.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Rube Goldberg - Creme that egg!
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Get me out of houston
- Was ultra-late from my connecting flight from equally cluster-fucked Baton Rouge.
- Ran — barefoot for better speed — from one gate to the other (about a 1/2 mile)
- Arrived at my gate to SEE my plane SITTING THERE and being told that I was too late.
- Feverishly tried to get a hotel room as they evaporated all over town right before my eyes.
- Finally getting maybe the last hotel room in Houston, on my own dime, and payng out nearly $200 for the privilege.
- Being told by several locals that my experience sounded like a typical day at Bush Intercontinental.
So, lord, I will try in the future to avoid Houston.










